Charge RN Labor and Delivery Nights

Full-time, Night Shift — Labor and Delivery Unit, East Tower, 3rd Floor (15 labor and delivery recovery suites, three surgical suites, four post-anesthesia recovery beds).

About the Role

As part of MercyOne Children’s Hospital, the labor and delivery unit offers a variety of birthing methods and pain management options. The RN III – Senior role provides individualized, high-quality nursing care to patients of all ages using a team approach to delegate and coordinate patient care at admission, transfer, and discharge. Practice is guided by the nursing process, policy, procedure, and standards. The incumbent maintains a focused area of expertise, advances professional and shared governance, collaborates inter- and intra-professionally, delegates to others to advance care, assumes an expanded role and increased responsibility, leads a small team, and serves as a unit/service/program nursing practice mentor while identifying learning needs of others. Works rotating shifts, weekends, and holidays as scheduled.

Responsibilities

• Mission & Culture: Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health and MercyOne Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions.
• Professional Nursing Practice: Acts independently and appropriately within license, scope of knowledge, and experience. Supports safety by adhering to standards and acting as a champion role model. Accountable for personal learning and development through knowledge, skill, and competency enhancing activities.
• Professional Nursing Process: Demonstrates standard elements of professional practice: Assess, Diagnose, Outcomes Identification/Solutions, Plan, Implement, Evaluate (ANA). Participates in development of clinical standards that are collaborative, collegial, and supported by current evidence-based practices, science, trends, data, and patient care (AONL).
• Professional Leadership Practice: Inspires team to embrace the organization’s Mission, Values, and Vision; cultivates excellence by supporting growth and development; advocates for continuous development with focus on mentoring and succession planning; engages in transpersonal teaching and learning; embraces humanistic-altruistic values; advances quality-focused, patient-centered, relationship-based healthcare; utilizes transformational leadership principles (Magnet); leads effectively through change; embraces ideas and cultural differences while managing complex priorities; enhances a culturally proficient work team through respect, dialogue, and inclusion.
• Professional Leadership Process: Provides leadership and retains accountability for delegation, choices, decisions, and outcomes; collaborates with key stakeholders and contributes to quality and improvement practices; empowers staff to creatively problem-solve through the caring process (Caritas); enhances an environment prioritizing patient and colleague safety using evidence-based practices, tools, and methodologies; drives effective patient, process, performance, and stewardship/financial outcomes as measured by established metrics and trended data; exhibits agility and willingness to take on new and additional responsibilities.
• Environment of Care: Facilitates a healing environment, reverentially encouraging and supporting basic needs as sacred acts, sustaining human dignity; practices in an environmentally safe, professional manner; values and advocates for the patient’s cultural beliefs and faith; monitors and initiates corrections or evidence-based practices; promotes optimum physical and psychological behaviors; influences effective, judicious, and financially responsible use of resources.
• Colleague Experience & Well-being: Fosters a continuous learning and development environment; stimulates and adopts innovative practices; cultivates caring by encouraging a respectful work environment; understands and embraces change through active encouragement of innovation and provisioning teams with tools and resources; leads others through the change process.
• Compassion & Communication: Incorporates colleague well-being dimensions throughout the colleague experience; actively participates in building community by fostering trusting relationships; visible and accessible to the team; facilitates development of interpersonal relationships and effective, respectful written, verbal, and nonverbal communications; demonstrates authentic listening; encourages and models communication that respects diversity and divergent opinions; employs communication strategies that show the value of patient and family participation in care.
• Compliance: Maintains working knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local laws/regulations, Trinity Health Integrity & Compliance Program, Code of Conduct, and other policies to ensure honest, ethical, professional behavior and safe work practices. Performs other duties as assigned by the manager.

Leadership Competencies

Mission Statement: We, MercyOne Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Core Values:

• Reverence: We honor the sacredness and dignity of every person.
• Commitment to Those who are Poor: We stand with and serve those who are poor, especially those most vulnerable.
• Safety: We embrace a culture that prevents harm and nurtures a healing, safe environment for all.
• Justice: We foster right relationships to promote the common good, including sustainability of Earth.
• Stewardship: We honor our heritage and hold ourselves accountable for the human, financial, and natural resources entrusted to our care.
• Integrity: We are faithful to those we say we are.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing (required).
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
• Current Iowa RN license (current Illinois license if working in Illinois) required.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) required within three (3) months of hire.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) required within three (3) months of hire.
• Proof of completion of Mandatory Reporter for both Child and Dependent Adult Abuse training required within six (6) months of hire.
• Specialty practice certification preferred.
• Must be comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.
• Must possess a personal presence characterized by honesty, integrity, and caring with the ability to inspire and motivate others to promote the philosophy, mission, vision, goals, and values of Trinity Health and MercyOne.