Nursing Team Leader - Renal Unit, 4 South

About the role

The Team Leader is responsible for staff direction, patient flow, patient safety, resource utilization, shift assignments, and overall quality of care. They also coordinate and participate in in-services, continuing education programs, and mentoring of the clinical staff.

Responsibilities

• Provides and coordinates in-services, continuing education programs, and mentoring of the clinical staff, especially recent hires.
• Actively coordinates and participates in PI activities; collects data to assess employee performance and participates in staff evaluation process.
• Coordinates unit activities and provides leadership for unit staffing and patient assignments and responds to and provides leadership during crisis and emergency situations.
• Supervises and evaluates nursing care furnished to each patient in their assigned clinical department.
• Evaluates the care for each LPN assigned patient upon admission and when appropriate, on an ongoing basis in accordance with accepted standards of nursing practice and hospital policy.
• Promotes efficient patient flow including timely discharges and admissions.
• Encourages a safe environment by promoting adherence to established protocols, policies and procedures.
• Serves as clinical resource and subject matter expert for staff.
• Provides just in time feedback with appropriate accountability as needed.
• Implements evidence based practices.
• Rounds on patients, physicians, and employees.
• Leads unit based daily huddle and represents unit at house wide daily huddle.
• Maintains records related to orientation in-services and unit competency assessments.
• Adheres to productivity, revenue and expense goals.
• Displays sound judgment and critical thinking skills in areas of decision-making and problem-solving.
• Maintains effective interdepartmental relationships by working with other unit leaders and departments to define and work toward common goals.
• Ensures compliance with various quality standards and regulatory agency requirements.
• Takes management call as directed.
• Facilitates bidirectional communication to ensure timely exchange of information to all stakeholders.
• Treats all people (customers and employees) fairly and with respect.
• Creates an environment that supports employee recruitment and retention.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse with current Alabama or Multistate License required.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Current American Heart Association or American Red Cross Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider training required.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience as a registered nurse required.
• Specialty nursing experience preferred in applied area.
• Must obtain within 6 months - American Heart Association or American Red Cross accepted Cardiac/Critical Care ACLS Emergency Department-both campuses ACLSPediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Emergency Department - Regional Campus only **Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC)
• Perioperative ACLS PACU -PALS; ACLS Women’s/Children NICU -Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP) Labor & Delivery -ACLS, NRP, and Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Mother Baby Unit - NRPPediatrics - PALS Clinical Support Cardiac Monitoring Unit -ACLS Dialysis ACLS International RNs Current approved Alabama Board of Nursing RN license or multi-state license required or ability to obtain prior to start.
• Current American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider training required or obtain within 30 days of start date.
• BSN preferred, minimum Associates required.

Qualifications

• Must be able to read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English.
• TNCC must be completed w/in 12 months of hire date.

Work Conditions

• Must be able to use computers, electronic mail, telephone and texting.
• Medium work. Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Must be able to tolerate prolonged periods of standing and walking.
• Must be able to reach reasonable distances in any direction.
• Must be able to stand, walk, kneel, bend, sit and stoop.
• Must have the ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull and carry objects.
• Must be able to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Possess stamina to provide 24-hour management for assigned area(s) of responsibility.
• Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range.