What are the responsibilities and job description for the Charge Nurse - Surgical Unit position at Good Samaritan Hospital?
Job Info
Job Summary:
Definition of Shared Governance: Shared governance is a professional structural model, founded on the cornerstone principles of partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership that form a culturally sensitive and empowering framework, enabling sustainable and accountability-based decisions to support an interdisciplinary design for excellent patient care.
Standards of Care
- Assessment
- Medical-surgical nurses collect client health data.
- Diagnosis
- Medical-surgical nurses analyze the assessment data in determining diagnosis.
- Outcome Identification
- Medical-surgical nurses identify expected outcomes unique to the client.
- Planning
- Medical-surgical nurses develop a plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
- Implementation
- Medical-surgical nurses implement the interventions identified in the plan of care.
- Evaluation
- Medical-surgical nurses evaluate the client's progress toward attainment of outcomes.
Essential Job Duties:
Performance Standards
- Quality Care
- The Medical-surgical nurse systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
- Performance Appraisal
- Medical-surgical nurses evaluate their own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards, statutes, and regulations.
- Education
- Medical-surgical nurses acquire and maintain current knowledge in nursing practice. Medical-surgical nurses pursue knowledge to enhance nursing expertise and advance the profession.
- Collegiality
- Medical-surgical nurses interact with, and contribute to, the professional development of peers and other health care providers as colleagues.
- Ethics
- Medical-surgical nurses deliver care in a nonjudgmental, nondiscriminatory, sensitive, and culturally competent manner.
- Collaboration
- Medical-surgical nurses collaborate with the client, family members, significant others, and health care providers in providing care.
- Research
- Medical-surgical nurses use research findings in practice.
- Resource Utilization
- Medical-surgical nurses use research findings in practice.
- Communication
- Medical-surgical nurses communicate effectively with clients, families, and other health care professionals.
- Leadership
- Medical-surgical nurses use leadership skills to enhance client outcomes and foster a healthy work environment within the practice setting and profession.
Secondary Job Duties That May be Reassigned:
- Monitor resources to maintain unit staffing standards and promote world class levels of patient satisfaction and outcomes.
- Collaborates with the team to support a healthy work environment.
- Assists with and/or facilitates resolution or management of customer issues/concerns/comments.
- Education: Bachelors Degree in Nursing effective January 2017 (with the exception of staff previously granted grandfather status).
- Licensure: Registered Nurse license from the Indiana State Board of Nursing.
- Experience: One year of nursing experience; specialty certification preferred.
- Required to maintain current BLS. Specific departments may also require current ACLS or PALS.
Posting Date: 2025-01-24T15:00:16 00:00
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Shift: Day Shift
Locations: 520 S 7th St Vincennes IN 47591
