RN Team Lead, L&D — Care & Quality Leader

Methodist Hospitals; Gary (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Methodist Hospitals in Gary, Indiana is seeking an experienced nursing leader to oversee Labor & Delivery operations and assume unit leadership in the director's absence.

Responsibilities include ensuring regulatory compliance, staffing and scheduling using Kronos, maintaining high patient satisfaction, and guiding quality improvement initiatives and staff education. Bachelor’s in Nursing is required; Master’s preferred; 5 years L&D experience and 2 years as Charge Nurse are expected.

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of clinical assessment and medical equipment.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to multi-task.
• Ability to multi-task.Ability to effectively direct the work of others.
• Must have a positive attitude and be courteous, kind compassionate and caring.

Responsibilities

• Collects, summarizes and reports all pertinent data to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Assume patient care duties as needed.
• Monitors Kronos, develops staff schedules and assignments, editing timecards and assuming other duties of the director as needed.
• Ensures optimal patient satisfaction by rounding on patients, intervening if necessary to correct situations and monitoring patient satisfaction scores.
• Provides clinical oversight to assigned patient population to include staff's competency and assignments and scheduling training and development events.
• Leads quality improvement initiatives, IE data collection and interpretation as well as design and implementation of action plans as well as staff education regarding quality efforts
• Leads efforts in RCA reviews or any reviews into patient care issues
• Performs chart reviews and summaries of cases needed for scheduled morbidity and mortality meetings. Represents the LDRP portion of care in presentations
• Leads an active role in orientation of new staff to the department as well as defining measures that enhance skill levels and performance

Skills

Clinical assessment

Independent work

Communication

Multi-tasking

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Master's Degree in Health Care Related field

Tools

Kronos

Job description

Methodist Hospitals in Gary, Indiana is seeking an experienced nursing leader to oversee Labor & Delivery operations and assume unit leadership in the director's absence.

Responsibilities include ensuring regulatory compliance, staffing and scheduling using Kronos, maintaining high patient satisfaction, and guiding quality improvement initiatives and staff education. Bachelor’s in Nursing is required; Master’s preferred; 5 years L&D experience and 2 years as Charge Nurse are expected.