What are the responsibilities and job description for the RN, Charge Nurse Progressive Care: FT 3p-11:30p position at Firelands Health Careers?
Position Highlights:
- Work/life: You will find support to help you manage your personal life while building a career.
- Employee-centric: 401(k), health and wellness offerings, monthly employee events, and more.
- Lifestyle: Sandusky was voted “Best Coastal Small Town in America”. You will have the opportunity to enjoy living and working in this growing area along the beautiful shores of Lake Erie.
About Firelands Health:
Our goal at Firelands Health is to be the best & preferred independent healthcare employer for the Sandusky Bay region.
Firelands Health is the area’s largest and most comprehensive resource for quality medical care. We are “big enough to care for you, and small enough to care about you”. We are locally managed and governed as a not-for-profit healthcare facility, serving the counties of Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Huron, covering a regional service area with over 300,000 residents. Our mission is to provide excellent healthcare, promote community wellness, and improve the lives we serve.
Our Core ACE Values: Attitude: We choose to be positive and inclusive every day. Commitment: We are committed to exceed the expectations of those we serve. Enthusiasm: We will work passionately to make a difference.
What You Will Do:
- Under the general direction of the Unit Director, delivers care to the acutely ill patient through the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation utilizing evidence based practice.
- Effectively interacts with patient, significant others, and health team members, while maintaining standards of professional nursing.
- Follows the Q.A. plan and completes all aspects of data collection, trending, evaluation, and reporting.
What You Will Need:
- Must be a graduate of an accredited program of professional nursing.
- Training and/or Experience: Must possess current hospital experience (within past five years) or be a new nursing graduate (within past two years). Nurses who do not meet this requirement must show proof of successful graduation from an approved refresher course.
- Must be knowledgeable regarding the nursing process and its application, including the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care.
- Prefer minimum of one year’s experience in pertinent clinical specialty. Nurses who do not meet this requirement must obtain experience through competency based orientation (CBO).
- Possess a service orientation.
- Prefer minimum 2 years’ experience in areas of charge being sought. Previous management experience preferred.
- Must be currently certified in CPR (and recertified bi-annually).
