Registered Nurse/Team Lead - Emergency Department - Night Shift

About the role

Provides daily clinical support on assigned units ensuring the successful delivery of quality patient care to patients. Collaborates with nursing leadership, and providers on patient placement. Provides direct patient care as an experienced practitioner level, performs duties of charge nurse, preceptor, monitoring, and evaluating nursing personnel during orientation to hospital or unit; assists in planning, evaluating, and revising staff development orientation plans.

Responsibilities

• Makes appropriate adjustments/assignments based on clinical care and skills required to maximize timely patient care.
• Affords assistance with reviewing developed nursing standards of care implemented based on EBP and nursing research.
• Guides the delivery of patient care through prioritizing and organizing work by directing and delegating/or assisting charge nurse with patient care assignments based on acuteness of patient care needs, staff availability and patient safety.
• Ensures the care provided is consistent with the mission and goals of the system, meeting or exceeding outcomes.
• Facilitates and supports safe, quality care at the bedside by providing exemplary direct patient care. Provides direct patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with other specialists as required and adjusts nursing care processes as indicated to ensure optimal patient care.
• Collaborates with the care team to adjust nursing care processes as indicated to ensure optimal patient care and Nursing Sensitive Indicators are utilized to drive and improve care.
• Collaborates with the leadership team to identify and address operational/clinical/quality problems and other barriers impeding care (e.g., problematic flow issues, equipment and supplies issues, documentation issues, patient satisfaction issues and performance issues).
• Anticipates and resolves patient/family concerns in a timely manner. Keeps patients and families informed.
• Protects patient confidentiality by promoting professional staff communications.
• Serves as a positive resource and role model/mentor to staff. Supports and promotes Professional Governance and encourages staff participation in shared decision-making.
• Requisitions supplies and equipment, maintenance and repair service and prepares related forms. Keeps stock and equipment inventories.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education: Associates Degree Required or Diploma Program Required. Bachelors Degree Nursing (BSN) or currently enrolled in BSN program with anticipated graduation date within 12 months of starting in role.
• Preferred Work Experience: 2 years Relevant experience. Required and Charge Nurse and/or Preceptor experience.
• Licenses: Licensed Registered Nurse Upon Hire Required or Registered Nurse Multi State License Upon Hire Required. Basic Life Support Upon Hire Required.
• Courses and Training: ACLS certification, where applicable. Upon Hire Required. Appropriate specialty certification. Upon Hire Preferred.

Skills

• Completely competent Professional Nurse with charge nurse and precepting experience.
• Excellent communication/interpersonal skills, conflict resolution, problem-solving, confrontational and other leadership skills.

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits. Retirement savings plan. Paid time off (PTO). Education assistance. Financial education and support, including DailyPay. Expanded Paid Parental Leave. For additional details: Benefits & Incentives | WellSpan Careers (joinwellspan.org)

About Us

WellSpan Health’s vision is to reimagine healthcare through the delivery of comprehensive, equitable health and wellness solutions throughout our continuum of care. As an integrated delivery system focused on leading in value-based care, we encompass more than 2,300 employed providers, 250 locations, nine award-winning hospitals, home care and a behavioral health organization serving central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. Our high-performing Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is the region’s largest and one of the best in the nation. With a team 23,000 strong, WellSpan experts provide a range of services, from wellness and employer services solutions to advanced care for complex medical and behavioral conditions. Our clinically integrated network of 3,000 aligned physicians and advanced practice providers is dedicated to providing the highest quality and safety, inspiring our patients and communities to be their healthiest.

About The Team

WellSpan York Hospital Built on a solid 140-year legacy of providing high-quality, high-volume, community-based care, WellSpan York Hospital, the largest of WellSpan’s eight hospitals, is a 596-bed acute care community teaching hospital that employs nearly 5,000 people, making WellSpan the largest employer in York County. Driven by a mission to provide exceptional care to all, WellSpan York Hospital serves a diverse population of more than 520,000 residents from the greater York County area. WellSpan York Hospital was one of several WellSpan Health hospitals honored by U.S. News & World Report with the High Performing recognition for 2022-23. The hospital offers services and programs that feature highly skilled clinical staff, life-saving technology and state-of-the-art facilities to address some of the most complex medical, surgical and behavioral health conditions. WellSpan York Hospital’s Regional Resource/Level 1 Trauma Center has been accredited by the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation and is the only accredited trauma center in York, Adams and Franklin counties. It is a nationally recognized teaching hospital with nine residency programs, six allied health schools and other training programs. More than 700 physicians and other professionals are members of WellSpan York Hospital’s medical and dental staff. WellSpan York Hospital in embarking on a significant five-year project. The centerpiece will be a new, eight-story surgical and critical care tower, which will dramatically expand the hospital’s intensive care unit as well as develop new state of-the-art surgical suites, making it one of the top 10 largest hospitals in Pennsylvania with approximately 600 beds.