Charge Nurse (RN) - ICU
About the role
Join our dedicated healthcare team where compassion meets innovation! As a Registered Nurse with us, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in patients' lives while enjoying a supportive work environment that fosters professional growth and work-life balance. Ready to be a vital part of our mission? Apply today and bring your passion for nursing to a place where it truly matters!
Established in 1961, St. Josephs Hospital in Tucson is home to the Carondelet Neurological Institute and the Carondelet Joint Replacement Center. The hospital offers advanced care that includes a Level I Trauma Center, Comprehensive Stroke Center and spacious and comfortable labor and delivery units. Additional services include high-quality care in programs such as cardiology, orthopedics, stroke and emergency medicine.
Responsibilities
- Supports, evaluates, prioritizes and supervises patient care and unit needs during assigned shift.
- Serves as designee for unit matters in nurse manager/director absence.
- Makes assignments for staff to meet patient care needs and for incoming patients.
- Makes patient assignments and delegates unit specific task assignments to ensure patient care and unit needs are met.
- Monitors effectiveness and completion of unit assignments.
- Evaluates staffing by considering mix of caregivers, patient volumes (current and anticipated), patient acuity and staff availability.
- For shift assigned and oncoming shift; demonstrates timely and effective communication skills in daily interactions with team members and others.
- Performance Improvement/Quality: Seeks to proactively improve quality of the services provided and patient care outcomes.
- Serves as unit champion and resource to staff for quality and patient safety initiatives and issues.
- Effectively uses change management methods to support improvement activities.
- Serves as role model for exceptional customer service and facilitates and actively participates in service recovery efforts during the shift on unit.
- Teacher/Mentor - Improves job performance of staff by assisting in personal and professional development through preceptor training and role modeling for care delivery and desired behavior.
- Provides professional/technical/clinical/coaching support for nursing associates.
- Assists and actively participates with nurse manager/director with quality projects and staff annual performance evaluations.
- Troubleshoots issues which arise that require an immediate resolution and keeping nurse manager/director informed of circumstances, actions and outcome.
- On shifts not in clinical lead/charge nurse role, takes patient care assignment, serves as preceptor or other roles determined