Charge Nurse (RN) — Shift Leader & Quality Champion

Tenet; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan with employer 2

Job summary

Carondelet Health Network in Tucson, AZ is seeking a Charge Nurse to support the nurse manager in coordinating patient care, unit activities, and staff performance on assigned shifts. The role applies nursing process standards, assigns care based on patient needs, and ensures smooth unit operation in the manager’s absence.

Responsibilities include supervising care, delegating tasks, evaluating staffing, and fostering quality and safety initiatives while modeling exceptional patient service and

Qualifications

• Education: Graduation from an accredited School of Nursing.
• Experience: Must have functioned in an RN role for a minimum of 1 year clinical experience required.

Responsibilities

• Supports, evaluates, prioritizes and supervises patient care and unit needs during assigned shift.
• Serves as designee for unit matters in nurse manager/director absence.
• Makes assignments for staff to meet patient care needs and for incoming patients.
• Makes patient assignments and delegates unit specific task assignments to ensure patient care and unit needs are met.
• Monitors effectiveness and completion of unit assignments.
• Evaluates staffing by considering mix of caregivers, patient volumes (current and anticipated), patient acuity and staff availability.
• Demonstrates timely and effective communication with team members and others.
• Seeks to proactively improve quality of the services provided and patient care outcomes; unit champion for quality and safety initiatives.
• Serves as role model for exceptional customer service and participates in service recovery.
• Preceptor and mentor for staff development and care delivery behavior.
• Provides professional/technical/clinical support for nursing staff.
• Assists with quality projects and staff evaluations.
• Troubleshoots urgent issues and updates nurse manager/director on outcomes.
• On non-clinical lead shifts, takes patient care assignments and acts as preceptor.
• Represents unit on committees as assigned by nurse manager/director.
• Reinforces organization vision, mission and values.

Skills

RN experience

Education

Graduation from an accredited School of Nursing

BSN (preferred)

Arizona Nursing License

BLS

ACLS

PALS

CPI

NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS)

Job description

Carondelet Health Network in Tucson, AZ is seeking a Charge Nurse to support the nurse manager in coordinating patient care, unit activities, and staff performance on assigned shifts. The role applies nursing process standards, assigns care based on patient needs, and ensures smooth unit operation in the manager’s absence.

Responsibilities include supervising care, delegating tasks, evaluating staffing, and fostering quality and safety initiatives while modeling exceptional patient service and