RN, Charge

RN, Charge

Location: GENESIS Health System Birth Center

Job Description:

• Provides shift-to-shift leadership for the practice and delivery of safe, effective, efficient, ethical, and culturally-competent antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and/or newborn care.
• Supports management of human, fiscal, material, and environmental resources in accordance with hospital guidelines, organizational/nursing philosophies, and in compliance with regulatory and professional standards, including ANA Standards of Professional Performance.
• Fosters interdisciplinary collaborative relationships.
• Schedules elective and emergent procedures.
• Makes appropriate patient care assignments.
• Ensures smooth shift operations and facilitates a seamless transition for the next shift with the exchange of essential information.
• Actively participates in quality monitoring and performance improvement activities.
• Promotes evidence-based practice through research utilization or conduct of practice research.

Supervisory Responsibility:

• Provides some accountability for scheduling, assigning, or coordinating work.
• Checks the quality of work, provides guidance, instruction, training, and direction to others.
• Serves as a group leader and acts in an assistant supervisory or lead role.

Materials Responsibility:

• Limited responsibility for material resources, including supplies, equipment, inventories, and small budgets.
• Limited control over these resources with a limited cost of errors in terms of damage, waste, or financial loss.

Key Relationships:

• Interacts with co-workers/health system employees, general public/visitors/volunteers, physicians/medical office staff, students/interns/residents/outside instructors, patients, families, and significant others.

Position Specification:

• Education: Associate's Degree in Nursing
• Special Training: Promotion to Administrative III or IV Charge Nurse required within 2 years of assuming full-time charge nurse position. Basic Life Support, NRP.
• Training Preferred: Baccalaureate degree in nursing or clinical certification
• Licensure/Registration: Registered Nurse in Iowa; Registered Nurse in Illinois within 1 year.
• Experience: More than 2 years experience required.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Requires a high degree of interpersonal skills to deal with a range of complicated problem situations.
• Interactions involve gaining the agreement of others and often involve complex, detailed, and sensitive topics.

Working Conditions:

• Routine exposure to highly adverse environmental conditions including physical hazards, health and safety risks, and otherwise undesirable characteristics in the environment.
• Safety equipment or precautions are required and closely followed.

Possible Exposure to Blood Borne Pathogens: Yes

Schedule: Part-Time/Non-Benefit Eligible .2 FTE, Night