RN Clinical Nurse IV (Team Lead) - Emergency Department

About the role

The position qualifies for the UNC Rex Incentive Program, offering up to $20,000 commitment incentive or $25,000 tuition loan forgiveness, along with up to $10,000 in relocation assistance and an employee referral program.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates, designs, and implements educational programs to meet identified learning needs of staff, patients, and families.
• Promotes and ensures staff participation in continuing education, orientation, competency, in-service, and staff development offerings.
• Serves as an area of specialty consultant in the design of educational programs.
• Promotes and ensures the use of the nursing process to provide quality patient care.
• Assesses and anticipates patient and family learning needs and organizes resources to ensure they are met.
• Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
• Creates and promotes an environment conducive to recruiting and retaining staff.
• Provides feedback to Manager/Supervisor and Director to assist in hiring, promoting, transferring, and terminating staff.
• Models and promotes behaviors that effectively give continual feedback to staff and colleagues.
• Evaluates patient progress and revises plan accordingly.
• Ensures appropriate care and services are available to patients, clients, and families for assigned shift.
• Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration in patient/client care planning to achieve desired patient outcomes.
• Coordinates care with interdisciplinary team members.
• Demonstrates and role models clinical expertise in specified patient population and shares expertise with other staff.
• Establishes and promotes standards of excellence for areas of responsibility and ensures consistent implementation by staff.
• Collaborates with Nurse Manager to implement strategies to increase revenue and cost-effectively manage personnel, supply, and equipment resources.
• Evaluates the impact of strategic fiscal changes on quality outcomes.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates new and creative approaches to meeting goals.
• Leads, participates, and promotes performance improvement initiatives that focus on identified patient safety or quality of care opportunities.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
• Bachelor's degree (BSN) required.
• Must have NC RN licensure and BCLS.
• Professional certification relevant to the practice area and on the ANCC Magnet approved list within the probationary period of employment.
• Minimum of one year experience working as a licensed RN.

Qualifications

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret clinical information and technical procedures.
• Ability to document clinical information.
• Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions from patients, physicians, family members, and other Rex staff.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions.