Charge Nurse - Baptist ICU - Nights

Baptist Health Care; Pensacola (FL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health Care in Pensacola, FL seeks a Charge Nurse RN for the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit. The role leads clinical care, mentors staff, and coordinates patient flow across critical care services, directing daily activities and ensuring high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications include Florida RN license, ACLS/BLS, and strong leadership abilities. This full-time, night-shift position emphasizes patient-centered care, education, and collaboration with the care team.

Qualifications

• Technical Diploma/Certificate Nursing required or
• Associates Degree in Nursing required
• Bachelor's Degree Nursing preferred

Responsibilities

• Maintains current documentation and required licensure, certifications, required education, and competencies in accordance with unit scope of service and professional standards.
• Assesses, identifies, and prioritizes patient and family needs to provide quality care to all patients.
• Safely delivers medications and treatments. Monitors and documents patient responses and upholds safety policies and protocols.
• Performs continuous patient assessment and communicates changes to the care team for prompt clinical decisions.
• Maintains accurate and timely documentation of care provided.
• Promotes effective working relations and collaborates to meet unit goals and objectives.
• Oversees department’s operational excellence and ensures quality services per policies and standards.
• Manages department fiscal resources and ensures proper utilization of financial resources.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Plan and organize

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Empathy

Documentation

Computer literacy

Education

Technical Diploma/Certificate Nursing

Associates Degree in Nursing

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (preferred)

Tools

None

Job description

The Charge Nurse is an experienced RN with in-depth knowledge and understanding of providing and overseeing nursing care to critical patients in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit to patients. This position requires the ability to impact care in a variety of settings. This position fulfills the roles of clinician, mentor, and educator. This position manages the coordination of patient care throughout the critical care services division. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, directing and overseeing the daily activities of the unit and is responsible and accountable for directing and facilitating the flow of patient care activities of the department/area. This position provides care and education for the patients based on their illness, symptoms, and courses of treatment. This position manages individualized, goal-directed nursing care through use of the nursing process and the principles of primary nursing in accordance with departmental and hospital policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

What you will do

• Maintains current documentation and required licensure, certifications, required education, and competencies in accordance with unit scope of service and professional standards. Pursues professional growth and development and takes the initiative in seeking opportunities to meet this need.
• Assesses, identifies, and prioritizes patient and family needs to provide quality care to all patients. Develops, discusses, and communicates plan of care for each patient in collaboration with the care team.
• Safely delivers medications and treatments. Monitors and documents patient responses and upholds all safety policies and protocols including patient identification, risk mitigation ensuring a safe individualized plan of care.
• Performs continuous patient assessment, detects changes in condition, and communicates with appropriate care team members to support prompt clinical decision making.
• Maintains accurate and timely documentation of care provided.
• Promotes effective working relations and works effectively as part of a department/ unit to facility meeting goals and objectives.
• Maintains responsibility for department’s operational excellence; ensures department delivers quality services in accordance with applicable policies, procedures, and professional standards.
• Maintains responsibility for the fiscal management of department and assures proper utilization of organization’s financial resources.
• Effectively communicates departmental, organizational, and regulatory information to staff.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Minimum Education

• Technical Diploma/Certificate Nursing Required or
• Associates Degree Nursing Required
• Bachelor's Degree Nursing Preferred
• 2 years Clinical nursing experience. Required

Licenses and Certifications

• Registered Nurse Licensed State of Florida or eligible compact state license Upon Hire Required
• BLS for Healthcare Providers (BLS) American Heart Association Upon Hire Required
• ACLS Provider (ACLS) American Heart Association Upon Hire Required

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• Basic computer skills.
• Excellent written communication and documentation skills.
• Demonstrates clinical competence in relevant area of nursing practice.
• Ability to plan, organize, and direct the activities of others.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Empathy and excellent listening skills.

About Us

Baptist Health Care is a not-for-profit health care system committed to improving the quality of life for people and communities in northwest Florida and south Alabama. The organization includesthree hospitals, four medical parks,Andrews Institute for Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine, and an extensive primary and specialty care provider network. With more than 4,000 team members, Baptist Health Care is one of the largest non-governmental employers in northwest Florida.

Baptist Health Care, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BHC maintains and enforces a policy that prohibits discrimination against any workforce members or applicants for employment because of sex, race, age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, religion, genetic information, or other category protected by federal, state or local law. Certain positions may require a Level 2 Background check through AHCA. Additional information about this requirement can be found here: Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse

Job Info

• Job Identification 10950
• Job Category Nursing - RN
• Posting Date 10/01/2026, 06:14 PM
• Locations 123 Baptist Way, Pensacola, FL, 32503, US
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift Night
• FTE 0.9 FT

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