Team lead/Clinical Nurse IV - Emergency Department

Education and Professional Development

• Captures and implements educational programs to meet staff, patient, and family learning needs.
• 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 professional growth of self and staff.
• Promotes a conducive environment for learning and provides educational experiences for students.

Evaluation

• Evaluates patient progress and revises plan accordingly.
• Maintains accountability for carrying out components of the plan.
• Works with manager to ensure care on unit is according to policies and procedures.

Implementation

• Promotes an environment that values diversity, open communication, teamwork, and exceptional service.
• 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.
• Promotes and ensures the use of the nursing process to provide quality patient care.
• Affirms 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.

Leadership

• 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.
• Aids Nurse Manager by providing assigned staff with performance feedback and opportunity to set professional goals.
• Models and promotes behaviors that effectively give continual feedback to staff and colleagues.
• Integrates best practice standards regarding retention of staff in all aspects of practice.

Assessment

• Synthesizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care.
• Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, and educational needs.
• Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication with others.
• Affirms and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families.
• Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
• Works with manager to demonstrate specialization needs to serve the patient population.

Planning

• Establishes and promotes standards of excellence for areas of responsibility and ensures consistent implementation by staff.
• Provides input about trends related to program development, space needs, and fiscal realities.
• Ensures appropriate and adequate clinical staffing and skill mix to meet patient care needs on own shift and upcoming shift.
• Effectively uses clinical and financial information to assist Nurse Manager to establish and meet budgetary goals.
• 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.
• Affords assistance to Nurse Manager to ensure that internal and external regulatory standards are met or exceeded.

Research and Performance Improvement

• Collaborates with Nurse Manager to evaluate research that is applicable to practice and promotes changes in standards of care as appropriate.
• Guides research development and implementation.
• Utilizes resources in asking research questions and applying appropriate research methods.
• Shares knowledge with colleagues through publication, presentations, or other means.
• 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.