Position Summary:
The Charge Nurse is a staff leader whose goal is to provide direct supervision to the health care team on their assigned shift while directing patient throughput, managing quality initiatives and additional task to unit-specific operations.
Essential Functions:
- Works in direct patient care role as staff RN as directed by manager
- Work directly with the unit manager in the areas of strategic planning, personnel management and unit operation
- Assesses unit staffing needs and investigates available resources
- Works as a change agent providing feedback and support to the change project
- Effectively directs staff in an emergency situation
- Assumes a leadership position while functioning as charge nurse
- Makes unit decisions in collaboration with leadership
- Monitors worklists
- Arranges schedules and orders for patients to be treated outside normal working hours
- Participates in daily huddle. Determines daily acuity levels and maintains accurate acuity measure as adds/cancels happen.
- Maintain staff schedules to ensure coverage for all patient treatments on a daily basis.
- Covers daily operational issues in the absence of the RN Manager or RN Supervisor.
- Evaluates the schedule to determine how to handle adds.
- Ensures workload evenly distributed among staff.
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Effective September 20, 2021, the COVID 19 vaccine is required for all new Carle Health team members. Requests for medical or religious exemption will be permitted.