Charge RN PreOp PACU

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.
• Affairs 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.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of NAH and department policies and procedures.
• Works to ensure compliance of best practice amongst each staff member.
• Coaches and develops staff, monitors staff performance, and provides real time constructive feedback whenever possible.
• Identifies performance opportunities for improvement and provides resources and education as needed.
• Regularly 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.
• Participates in creating and sustaining a learning environment supported by evidenced based practice and research.
• Focuses on personal development areas, engaging in professional/collegial interactions with peers and students.
• Works collaboratively with peers and other health care providers, and participating in ongoing in-service and educational seminars.
• Participates in the mentoring and education of colleagues and students.
• Responsible for reporting any safety related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.
• Adheres to regulatory and organizational standards affecting patient care and safety as well as all hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
• Practices in a safe and cost effective manner.
• Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employees area of responsibility.