Maternity Services Registered Nurse Clinical Leader 36hrs (7p-7a)

About the role

The Clinical Leader is a Registered Nurse who provides direct patient care and collaborates with the Nurse Manager to direct nursing care, coordinate resources, and perform administrative activities.

Responsibilities

• Create an environment conducive to maintaining established standards of practice and functions within policies, practice guidelines, and nursing standards.
• Collaborate with the health care team to deliver quality and fiscally responsible patient-focused care.
• Provide timely, positive responses to the needs of all customers including patients, families, co-workers, and physicians.
• Administer and accurately record medications according to provider orders and established protocols.
• Delegate care in accordance with the Massachusetts Nurse Practice Act and Sturdy Health guidelines.
• Maintain accurate and detailed patient records, including assessments, interventions, and responses to treatment as well as individualized nursing plans of care.
• Respond to medical emergencies, providing first aid and initiating appropriate interventions.
• Ensure patient confidentiality is maintained at all times.
• Utilize and maintain medical equipment (e.g., monitors, IV pumps, ventilators).
• Remain up to date on current and emerging nursing practice.
• Incorporate and apply research and evidence-based practice.

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of Clinical Nursing experience in acute care setting.
• Advanced certification in applicable area preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, command of verbal and written English; good organizational skills, and adaptability.
• Professional Governance: Collaborates and supports the health care team in the delivery of quality and fiscally responsible patient-focused care.
• Facilitates an interdisciplinary approach to patient care, patient flow, staffing, resource utilization, and problem solving on a given shift.
• Makes decisions and solves problems independently.
• Monitors and evaluates the assignment of patient care to the appropriate nursing personnel based on patient needs and acuity level.
• Provides guidance regarding patient care and other job-related requirements.
• Participates in quality assessment and improvement programs to evaluate effectiveness of care delivered.
• Enhances unit behaviors through encouragement of education, implementation of new concepts and technology.
• Participates in the staff recruitment and retention process.
• Monitors and adjusts staffing and scheduling as needed.
• Contributes to the organizational plan for development of short and long-term goals by providing unit leadership coverage in collaboration with the Nurse Manager directing and supervising unit staff and communicating the status of unit operations activities and issues to the Nurse Manager or appropriate discipline.
• Participates in unit meetings and recommends patient care/fiscal objectives, standards, and goals.
• Chairs unit staff meetings in collaboration with the Nurse Manager.
• Participates in the formation of policy, procedures, and standards via organizational committees and compliance to regulatory standards.
• Collaborates with the health care team to foster communication with patients and family members to facilitate positive patient outcomes and discharge planning.
• Develops and maintains positive relationships across all areas of responsibility.
• Visibly demonstrates commitment to customer relations and all basic concepts of continuous quality improvement and preventing error from reaching the patient.

Skills

• Excellent quality of Nursing Care as part of a comprehensive care team.
• Excellent communication and customer services skills required.
• Successful completion of orientation and annual competencies.
• Meets all criteria associated with responsibilities detailed in this document and the core/unit specific competencies for registered nurses.

Qualifications

• Education/Training: Bachelor’s degree in nursing.
• Licenses/Certification: Current Massachusetts state RN license. ACLS is required with BLS for RN positions on the following units/departments: Telemetry, ICU, ED, Cardiac Rehab, Endoscopy, LDRP, PACU, Med/Surg NRP and Intermediate Fetal Monitoring is required with ACLS and BLS for RNs on LDRP PALS is required with ACLS and BLS for RNs on PACU and ED.