RN Lead

Summary:

As a RN Lead, you will play a crucial role in supporting and coordinating the day-to-day activities of nursing personnel in patient care units. You will provide direction to Clinical Staff, implement work of assigned units, and coordinate activities with other patient care units and related departments. Your ability to provide routine and complex care, with a focus on long-range goals or plans, will be essential in ensuring the delivery of high-quality patient care.

Responsibilities:

• Meet the expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
• Organize and oversee patient care delivery during an assigned shift, ensuring proper staffing and smooth operations of a patient care unit.
• Coach and counsel individual team members, monitor and provide feedback on performance, and address training needs.
• Document daily staffing, operational, and administrative records, maintaining compliance with governmental policies and procedures.
• Provide direction and support to nursing staff, demonstrating and promoting respect for the dignity and rights of every patient, and assist with communications with patients and families.
• Allocate team resources responsibly and equitably, delegate appropriate levels of responsibility and authority, and provide oversight and guidance.
• Mediate and resolve conflicts among individuals, groups, and departments.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Standard I: Utilizes the Nursing Process

• Use critical thinking skills to assess the basic physical, psychosocial, social, cultural, spiritual, and developmental needs of patients and families.
• Communicate findings to appropriate healthcare team members.
• Develop and use a specific plan of care and modify it to meet individual patient needs using evidence-based practice.
• Implement patient care and therapeutic procedures, monitor and document progression of treatment and teaching goals.
• Evaluate the care and treatment provided to patients and the patient's response to the care and treatment.
• Perform timely reassessment and documentation.
• Must be able to perform unit-specific competencies based on the specific patient care need for designated unit's patient population.

Standard II. Patient Throughput & Patient Flow Process

• Anticipate and plan for admission/discharge/transfer needs to facilitate patient flow.
• Utilize appropriate systems of communication and tools to facilitate the discharge process.
• Coach on tools and techniques for checking, cross-checking, and validating orders to ensure accuracy.

Standard III. Unit Operations

• Plan, direct, and evaluate the overall nursing care and functions in a particular nursing unit during an assigned shift.
• Demonstrate good stewardship in the proper use and maintenance of equipment and supplies.
• Assess departmental staffing needs, actively participate in resourcing efforts.
• Educate and train others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry.

Standard IV. Safe Practice/Quality Care/Regulations

• Incorporate patient safety practices/guidelines to promote a safe environment resulting in positive patient outcomes.
• Demonstrate accountability for nursing research and quality improvement activities.
• Provide evidence-based nursing care.
• Communicate patient information effectively across the continuum of care.
• Educate and train others on the operations, ethics, and regulations within the industry.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local healthcare-related laws and regulations; ability to comply with these in healthcare practices and activities.

Standard V. Leadership

• Serve as a subject matter expert for patient care.
• Give continuing feedback, recognize achievement, and recommend improvement as a patient care subject matter expert.
• Support proper allocation of team resources, delegate appropriate levels of responsibility and authority, and provide support and guidance for high-quality patient care.
• Mediate and resolve conflicts among individuals, groups, and departments.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Clinical Policies and Standards

• Follow a specific set of standards and associated clinical procedures.
• Analyze policy and standards documentation and ensure organizational compliance.
• Provide feedback for improvement of procedures.
• Assist in the development and implementation of specific procedures.
• Work with control and monitoring mechanisms, tools, and techniques.

Health Information Documentation

• Share experiences with maintaining paper and electronic patient documentation.
• Walk through the steps and procedures for receiving, validating, and updating patient records.
• Describe the flow of information between various stations or units.
• Discuss the functions, features, and document flow of electronic documentation.
• Transcribe verbal orders; explain techniques for ensuring their accuracy.
• Explain health information documentation best practices and their rationale across healthcare practices.

Medical Equipment

• Describe experience with basic medical equipment used in own unit or facility.
• Use standard diagnostic tools and techniques to resolve common equipment problems.
• Educate patients about the appropriate use of home medical equipment.
• Ensure that all equipment and related supplies are in proper working order prior to use to ensure patient safety.
• Inspect, troubleshoot, and evaluate incoming equipment.

Medical Order Processing

• Share experiences with processing medical orders for one or more groups of patients or conditions.
• Describe functions and features of the system used to enter, validate, update, and forward medical orders.
• Discuss common errors, their sources, and procedures for correcting.
• Explain considerations for entering and following standing orders.
• Differentiate between standing orders and preprinted orders and considerations for each.

Patient Chart Reading and Interpretation

• Describe experiences in reading and interpreting patient charts for patients on unit and under own care.
• Review patients' charts for completion and accuracy; identify and alert to mistakes or omissions.
• Recognize unexpected readings and alert nursing or medical staff.
• Relate examples of misreadings or misinterpretations and lessons learned.
• Review, discuss, and validate own interpretation with others.

Patient Safety

• Share experiences with ensuring safety for one or more patient groups or settings.
• Explain key features of safety guidelines and procedures for those groups and settings.
• Listen and respond to safety inquiries from patients and family members.
• Recognize and address physiological and psychological signs of problems.
• Describe considerations for patients who can cause harm to self, versus harm to others.
• Utilize appropriate systems to document misses and near misses, participate in immediate investigating, analysis, and reporting in real-time.

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred.
• 2 years of clinical patient care experience in a relevant setting.
• BLS required.
• RN License in state of employment or compact.

Work Schedule:

5 Days - 8 Hours

Work Type:

Full Time

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