Charge Nurse (RN) - Telemetry

Tenet Healthcare; El Paso (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Tenet Healthcare is seeking an RN Charge Nurse for the night shift to guide and support nursing staff, ensure safe patient flow, and supervise support staff in line with acuity and training. The role includes direct clinical care and coordination with medical providers to maintain high-quality patient care.

The Charge Nurse will oversee admissions, transfers, discharges, and mentor new staff while ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations and hospital policies.

Qualifications

• Required: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Preferred: Bachelor's or master's degree in nursing.
• Required: Current license or registration to practice as required by state law.
• Certifications: AHA BLS; ACLS and/or PALS and/or NRP as applicable by policy.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and supervision to nursing and support staff.
• Ensure safe patient environment and efficient patient throughput.
• Coordinate admissions, transfers and discharges with physicians and admins.
• Direct and oversee nursing care and administration of medications per policy.
• Mentor staff and ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.

Skills

Staff supervision

Clinical care

Nursing leadership

Communication

Education

Graduate of accredited nursing program

Bachelor's or Master's in Nursing (preferred)

Job description

Job Shift: Nights

Job Type: Full Time

This role is responsible for providing guidance and support to staff, maintaining a safe environment, ensuring patient throughput, and directing nursing staff. The charge nurse is responsible for the smooth and efficient patient flow within the unit, delegates assignments and provides supervision for the support staff in accordance with their level of training and the patient's acuity. The charge nurse works, in cooperation with medical providers to insure the quality of patient care.

This role also provides direct clinical patient care. The role will assume responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing direct clinical care to assigned patients on a per shift basis, and unit level. The role is responsible for supervision of staff to which appropriate care is delegated. The Charge Nurse reports to the appropriate clinical leader with oversight by the CNO to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management related to patient care.

The charge nurse oversees patient admissions, transfers and discharges, and mentors and trains new staff while providing support and guidance to all staff members. The charge nurse monitors medical charts and administers compassionate care and assistance to patients and families, liaises with doctors and administrators and communicates any protocol changes to staff. The charger nurse is also responsible for ensuring compliance with all health and safety regulations, and record sand maintains accurate reports.

In addition, the RN charge nurse provides high-quality, safe, cost-effective, total nursing care to all patients assigned. The RN assumes responsibility for overall coordination and integration of patient care based on the nursing process. The RN directs care according to established standards of safety, risk management, QI, and Infection Control, with the goal being to discharge the patient with an optimum level of care provided. Assumes responsibility for coordination and planning of patient care within the prescribed medical regime. Administers all medications safely and in a timely manner per hospital policy. Performs and fulfills all HICS (hospital incident command system) responsibilities, assignments, tasks, and roles as directed and needed by the facility in times of emergency and/or disaster. Responsible for knowing the Hospital's emergency codes, including the purpose and appropriate action for each, and adheres to the Hospital policies and procedures for each emergency code.

Education

• Required: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Preferred: Bachelor's or master's degree in nursing.

Experience

• Required: 1 year of RN experience.

Certifications

• Required: Currently licensed, certified, or registered to practice profession as required by law, regulation in state of practice or policy; AHA BLS, and if applicable by corporate policy for unit of hire, AHA ACLS and/or PALS and/or NRP.