Night Shift Charge Nurse RN – Lead Patient Care

Wellstar Health System, Inc.; Mableton (GA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellstar Health System, Inc. in Georgia seeks an RN Clinical Charge Nurse to direct daily unit operations during the night shift, oversee patient assignments, and provide leadership to an interdisciplinary team to ensure safe, high-quality patient care.

You will participate in staffing, bed flow, physician rounding, and care coordination, while upholding professional nursing standards and the WellStar Practice Model and governance structure.

Responsibilities

• Monitors equipment inventory, location and utilization to ensure staff have tools and equipment needed to perform their job.
• Participates in planning and requesting resources for providing high quality care and assists in acquiring appropriate staffing during unexpected staffing shortages or surges in census.
• Proactively plans for the care of patients across the care continuum in the course of giving direct patient care. Participates in the development of protocols and procedures when called upon or through self-initiation in collaboration with care managers and other members of the health care team to achieve best practice outcomes (i.e., decrease in re-admission rates; avoidable days; adverse events; etc).
• Make Patient Assignments.
• Consideration for new grads, float and type of patient.
• Daily Discharge/Length of Stay Review.
• Round with Physicians/Surgeons.
• Assign Surgery Beds In Conjunction with Surgery Schedule.
• Consult with Supervisor Nursing Administration (House Supervisor) on Bed Flow and Availability.
• Emergency Services: Assignments for sections, manage waiting room, multiple areas open at different times.
• Rounds on every patient daily to evaluate quality and appropriateness of patient care including corrective action when needed utilizing peer coaching and accountability.
• Performs or provides oversight for the Nursing Process (assessment; diagnosis; identification of outcomes; planning; implementation and evaluation) in the performance of clinical care using evidence base practice; analytical/critical thinking insuring that care is individualized; coordinating care through effective partnerships; caring is central to achieve optimal patient care outcomes.
• Provides or provides oversight for relationship based care delivery patient-centered care by partnering with the patient and significant others (as appropriate) using comprehensive hand-off communication processes; interdisciplinary evaluation and communication (i.e., unit rounds, case reviews, peer review, etc.); just in time and planned patient teaching; keeping the patient informed using appropriate communication tools and making the patients goals the focus of the plan of care.
• Practices using current clinical practice standards with a focus on safety and quality .
• Within the Emergency Department Setting: Charge Nurse rounds on patients in a modified method in conjunction with nurses to focus on patient safety concerns and patient care.

Job description

Wellstar Health System, Inc. in Georgia seeks an RN Clinical Charge Nurse to direct daily unit operations during the night shift, oversee patient assignments, and provide leadership to an interdisciplinary team to ensure safe, high-quality patient care.

You will participate in staffing, bed flow, physician rounding, and care coordination, while upholding professional nursing standards and the WellStar Practice Model and governance structure.