RN Charge MedSurg - KH CH

Wellstar Health System; Smyrna (GA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking an RN Charge Nurse for their MedSurg unit. This role involves directing unit activities, ensuring high-quality patient care, and fostering teamwork among staff. The ideal candidate will have a current RN license in Georgia and at least one year of nursing experience, with a focus on leadership and patient-centered care.

Qualifications

• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) in Georgia or multi-state compact.
• Minimum 1 year of nursing experience required; 2 years preferred.
• Certifications: BLS required; ACLS preferred.

Responsibilities

• Directing daily activities of the unit to ensure safe delivery of care.
• Overseeing nursing processes and promoting safety and quality standards.
• Coordinating interdisciplinary care and supporting performance improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Teamwork

Patient Care

Education

Graduate of an accredited nursing program

BSN preferred

Job description

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Job Summary

The RN Clinical Charge Nurse is responsible for directing and overseeing the daily activities of the unit on an assigned shift to ensure the safe delivery of care. The Charge Nurse often takes modified patient care assignments and practices in a clinical environment supported by Nurse Managers and leadership through the WellStar Shared Governance Model. The practice framework is guided by the WellStar Professional Nursing Practice Model, evidence-based practice, and research. RN competencies are derived from these models and supported by the WellStar Core Competencies.

The RN Clinical Charge Nurse is a proactive member of an interdisciplinary team of licensed and unlicensed caregivers, ensuring patients, families, and significant others receive high-quality, safe, and individualized care. Expectations include accountability, responsibility, effective teamwork, delegation, communication, respect, personal development, and fostering growth among team members.

This role contributes to establishing and maintaining practices that ensure excellence in patient care, efficient resource use, and leadership tasks such as staff scheduling, unit patient flow, clinical expertise for concerns, physician rounding, committee involvement, survey readiness, and other tasks assigned by the manager to ensure departmental effectiveness.

The RN Clinical Charge Nurse serves as a resource for operational knowledge and hospital awareness, supporting the growth and development of team members, building rapport between nurses and physicians, and modeling professional nursing practice in accordance with the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act and the American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics. The individual upholds the voice of the patient, system policies, and service excellence goals, utilizing advanced clinical expertise to support safe, culturally competent, and age-appropriate patient care.

Facility: Cobb Hospital

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions

1. Resources and Support: Monitors equipment inventory and utilization, plans resource needs, and participates in developing protocols to improve outcomes.
2. Tactical Responsibilities: Make patient assignments considering experience levels, review discharge and length of stay, round with physicians, coordinate bed flow, and manage emergency services.
3. Exemplary Practice and Outcomes: Conduct daily rounds, oversee nursing processes, ensure relationship-based, patient-centered care, and promote safety and quality standards.
4. Teamwork and Collaboration: Communicate with management, coordinate interdisciplinary care, support performance improvement, and participate in shared governance.
5. Professional Development: Maintain confidentiality, complete mandatory education, serve as preceptor, and model professional practice.
6. Evidence-Based Practice and Research: Promote research, participate in data collection, and support clinical questions to advance practice.

Minimum Education and Licensure

• Graduate of an accredited nursing program (Associate Degree/Diploma or BSN preferred).
• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) in Georgia or multi-state compact.
• Certifications: BLS required; ACLS preferred or required depending on unit.

Experience

• Minimum 1 year of nursing experience required; 2 years preferred.
• Experience as relief charge nurse with clinical expertise preferred.