RN Clinical Nurse IV Team Leader - Labor and Delivery

UNC Health; Chapel Hill (NC); On-site; USD 53,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health’s Labor & Delivery unit in Chapel Hill is seeking a Clinical Nurse IV Team Leader for a 36-hour per week schedule, primarily night shifts with some day shift meetings. This role blends clinical leadership with administrative responsibilities in a Level III unit that delivers high-risk obstetric care.

The CN IV provides expert nursing leadership, acts as a resource and system-wide consultant, and participates in initiatives to advance nursing knowledge and patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) from a school of professional nursing.
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.
• Eighteen (18) months of professional nursing experience in a tertiary care setting with charge and precepting preferred.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers certification.

Responsibilities

• Promotes an environment valuing diversity, teamwork and exceptional service; ensures care and services for assigned shift.
• Coordinates care with interdisciplinary team members and supports patient education needs.
• Assists in hiring, promoting and transferring staff; provides performance feedback to staff.
• Manages staffing, budgeting and resource utilization with the Nurse Manager; supports revenue and cost-control goals.
• Leads performance improvement initiatives to enhance patient safety and quality of care.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Clinical nursing

Team collaboration

Education

BSN

Job description

Labor & Delivery is seeking a Clinical Nurse IV Team Leader for a 36 hours/week, primarily night shift role, however there may be some day shift meeting requirements. Includes both clinical and administrative/non-clinical shifts; flexible scheduling for administrative hours are available.

Our Labor & Delivery Unit is a Level III referral center, which provides care to both normal and high-risk laboring and ante partum patients. Approximately 4,200 babies are born each year at UNC Medical Center. Several thousand patients are also seen in its triage area. In addition, L & D providers and staff perform numerous high-risk procedures such as vaginal and cerclage placements, amniocentesis and versions as well as various fetal procedures, including IUTs, fetal shunt placements and exit procedures. The area consists of 15 labor and delivery rooms, 5 triage rooms, a 2-bed recovery room, and 3 operating rooms. Anesthesia coverage is provided 24/7.

UNC Health Care receivedMagnet Recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center which recognizes quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice.

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Summary

The Clinical Nurse IV practices at the level of an expert practitioner of nursing as defined by Benner, P. (1984). From Novice to Expert. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. The nurse at this level demonstrates expertise in caring for patients with multiple and complex problems. In addition to demonstrating clinical leadership on the unit, the Clinical Nurse IV serves as a resource and system-wide consultant to staff and participates in endeavors to increase nursing knowledge. The CN IV functions as a clinical leader.

Responsibilities

• 1. Clinical Nursing Practice - Promotes an environment that values diversity, open communication, teamwork and exceptional service. Ensures that appropriate care and services are available to patients, clients and families for assigned shift. Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration in patient/client care planning to achieve desired patient outcomes. Coordinates care with interdisciplinary team members. Demonstrates and role models clinical expertise in specified patient population and shares expertise with other staff. Promotes and ensures the use of the nursing process to provide quality patient care. Assesses and anticipates patient and family learning needs and organizes resources to ensure that they are met. Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
• 2. Education and Professional Development - Coordinates, designs and implements educational programs to meet identified learning needs of staff, patients and families. Promotes and ensures staff participation in continuing education, orientation, competency, in-service and staff development offerings. Participates in development and implementation of competency initiatives. Serves as an area of specialty consultant in the design of educational programs. Participates in development of and provides clinical expertise for patient education materials. Promotes professional growth of self and staff. Promotes a conducive environment for learning and provides educational experiences for students.
• 3. HR Management - Creates and promotes an environment conducive to recruiting and retaining staff. Provides feedback to Manager/Supervisor and Director to assist in hiring, promoting, transferring and terminating staff. Assists Nurse Manager by providing assigned staff with performance feedback and opportunity to set professional goals. Models and promotes behaviors that effectively give continual feedback to staff and colleagues. Integrates best practice standards regarding retention of staff in all aspects of practice.
• 4. Operational and Fiscal Management - Establishes and promotes standards of excellence for areas of responsibility and ensures consistent implementation by staff. Provides input about trends related to program development, space needs and fiscal realities. Ensures appropriate and adequate clinical staffing and skill mix to meet patient care needs on own shift and upcoming shift. Effectively uses clinical and financial information to assist Nurse Manager to establish and meet budgetary goals. Collaborates with Nurse Manager to implement strategies to increase revenue and cost-effectively manage personnel, supply and equipment resources. Evaluates the impact of strategic fiscal changes on quality outcomes. Assists Nurse Manager to ensure that internal and external regulatory standards are met or exceeded.
• 5. Research and Performance Improvement - Collaborates with Nurse Manager to evaluate research that is applicable to practice and promotes changes in standards of care as appropriate. Guides research development and implementation. Utilizes resources in asking research questions and applying appropriate research methods Shares knowledge with colleagues through publication, presentations or other means .Develops, implements and evaluates new and creative approaches to meeting goals. Leads, participates and promotes performance improvement initiatives that focus on identified patient safety or quality of care opportunities.

Other Information

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) from a school of professional nursing.

Licensure/Certification Requirements

• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification
• For positions at magnet hospitals, professional certification relevant to the practice area and on the ANCC Magnet approved list is required within the probationary period of employment.

Professional Experience Requirements

• Eighteen (18) months of professional nursing experience in a tertiary care setting to include didactic and clinical experience in the area of assignment preferably with charge and precepting experience in the area of assignment.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements

Job Details

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: Labor & Delivery

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 36.00

Salary Range:$38.51 - $58.82 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Rotating

Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

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