Charge Nurse (RN) - ICU Weekender

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 ensure 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 role is accountable to support CNO to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management related to patient care.

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.

Education:

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

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.

Physical Demands: