Charge RN - Operating Room

Responsibilities

• Addresses patient and family concerns, communicates issues and solutions through appropriate channels.
• Documents incidents, events, interventions, and patient/staff/physician responses.
• Serves as patient advocate.
• Prioritize and problem-solves to meet changes in patient status/condition.
• Works with other departments to ensure smooth patient throughput processes including discharge planning and patient education as appropriate.
• Collaborates with physicians and other health care professionals to ensure staffing patterns meet appropriate skill mix necessary for quality patient care.
• Serves as a liaison with patients, physicians, Administrative Coordinator, Staffing Office, Transfer Center, Care Coordination department, unit staff, ancillary staff and departments.
• Serves as a resource, assists staff in caring for patients; able to assist physician with order entry.
• Affirms staffing for current and next shift, determines appropriate staff levels and mix to provide quality care and maintain unit productivity.
• Assigns patient care teams, delegates patient care activities to unit and ancillary staff.
• Addresses work flow issues, ensures incidents are appropriately documented and corrective steps are taken.
• Makes bed or patient assignment based on patient needs and staff resources.
• Identifies appropriate referral and educational resources for patients and staff.
• Advocates for both patients and staff as needs arise.
• Demonstrated knowledge of NAH and department policies and procedures.
• Works to ensure compliance of best practice amongst each staff member.
• Coaches and develops staff, ensuring staff accountability, monitoring staff performance, and providing real time constructive feedback whenever possible.
• Identifies performance opportunities for improvement and provides resources and education as needed.
• Recognizes employees for strong performance and improvements.
• Collaborates with clinical manager on employees performance evaluations.
• Collaborates and communicates with the clinical manager regarding staff performance.
• Provides coaching to nursing staff.
• Provides input to nursing leadership regarding employment actions including performance evaluation, promotion, corrective action and termination on a regular basis.

Qualifications

• Education: RNs hired on or after 7/1/2016: Must graduate from a BSN program within 6 years of hire into an RN position; the original due date will not change if promoted to a Charge RN position. RNs hired prior to 7/1/2016 without a BSN or without a BSN-in-process promoted to Charge RN must obtain their BSN degree within 6 years of their promotion date.
• Certification & Licensures: Active, unrestricted, Arizona RN License or valid, participating compact license - Required BLS- Required upon hire ACLS- Required PALS- Required
• Experience: Minimum of one (1) year experience as an RN- Preferred