What are the responsibilities and job description for the RN-Charge Nurse, Surgery position at SSM Health?
Job Title: Clinical Team Lead - RN
Job Summary:
Provides leadership and coordination of unit staffing while ensuring implementation of clinical objectives and quality patient care.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements:
- Leadership and Coordination: Assigns, directs, educates and monitors nursing and support staff during assigned shift. Contributes to or performs performance evaluations of staff.
- Patient Care Planning: Assesses daily patient care needs and develops and distributes patient care assignments, ensuring that population appropriate patient care is given.
- Collaboration and Quality: Collaborates with advanced practice providers to ensure quality outcomes. Evaluates the effectiveness of patient care and identifies any issues that affect desired patient outcomes.
- Conflict Resolution: Responds to complaints about patient care and manages through established channels.
- Staff Development: May provide input for hiring, training, directing, developing and evaluating staff.
- Safety and Compliance: Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner. Performs other duties as assigned.
Education and Experience:
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing.
- One year of registered nurse experience.
Physical Requirements:
- Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
- Constant standing and walking.
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
- Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Occasional driving.
- Rare crawling and running.
Professional Licenses and Certifications:
- Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA).
- Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), Missouri Division of Professional Registration, Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN), or Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services.
Work Environment and Schedule:
- Day Shift (United States of America).
- 40 hours per week.
Benefits:
- Paid Parental Leave: one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
- Flexible Payment Options: instant access to earned, unpaid base pay before payday.
- Upfront Tuition Coverage: upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.
SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. SSM Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
