Staff Charge Nurse Ii - Santa Clara, United States - Kaiser Permanente
Description
Job Summary:
As a leader of the health care team, directs shift-to-shift and/or departmental operations and provides professional nursing care, including utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures.
Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats coworkers, patients, families, and al members of the health care team with dignity and respect.
Essential Responsibilities:
- The Charge Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care when and where appropriate to do so.
- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.
- Establishes patient care priorities based on essential patient needs and availability of unit resources (time, personnel, equipment, and supplies).
- Identifies patient/family learning needs and acts to meet them.
- Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families.
- Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by team members.
- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified by the institution.
- Performs efficiently in emergency situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.
- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.
- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and department personnel.
- Participates in unit and department Performance Improvement activities.
- Identifies and solves problems effectively.
- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.
- Demonstrates proficiency in the use of computers and telecommunication modalities in documenting, tracking and conveying information.
- Leadership
- Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.
- Provides professional leadership and direction of department personnel in order to maintain efficient delivery of effective patient care.
- Demonstrates a professional, supportive attitude.
- Champions new ideas.
- Leads and directs others through the change process.
- Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities.
- Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds them accountable for performance.
- Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve problems in collaboration with work team and with other departments.
- Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
- Customer Service
- Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
- Assists members who are less than satisfied with their experience by listening and taking responsibility within their scope to ensure that the issue is resolved.
- Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
- Maintains and protects patient confidentiality.
- Assures a clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
- Supervisory Responsibilities
- The incumbent motivates and provides clinical direction to other employees, but does not have the authority to hire, fire, discipline, nor effective input into such.
- Nursing Process (Provides clinical support to staff RN in these functions)
- Provides competent Emergency nursing care, for all ages, acuities and conditions in the population the facility serves.
- Within scope of role, demonstrates initiative, followup and flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues.
- Leadership
- Ensures provision of care is consistent with EMTALA, Nurse Practice Act, Title 22 and other applicable regulations and laws, including patient confidentiality and risk management.
- Supports and ensures teamwork with all internal and external departments and agencies involved in the provision of care.
- Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegate tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability. Must be charge over five (5) or more employees, of which at least 1 must be another Registered Nurse, unless this requirement is waived by the employer.
- Maintains knowledge of Emergency Department functions in a disaster scenario.
- Maintains all required licenses, certifications and
More jobs from Kaiser Permanente
-
Ophthalmic Photographer
Riverside, United States - 2 weeks ago
-
LVN I
Los Angeles, United States - 2 weeks ago
-
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Oakland, United States - 3 days ago
-
Health Education Assistant
San Rafael, United States - 3 weeks ago
-
LVN - Outpatient-Level III - IRIS MOB II - Oncology-Regular Clinic - Full Time (Bilingual Spanish)
Moreno Valley, United States - 1 week ago
-
Regional Laboratory Support Specialist
Richmond, United States - 4 weeks ago