Charge Nurse FT Labor & Delivery Gilmore-Amory
North Mississippi Medical Center
Tupelo, MS
Full-time
Nursing
Posted on December 10, 2021
- Staff Development and Management:
- Assists and supports in all human resources functions for nursing service including onboarding, termination, and disciplinary action; maintains appropriate documentation and ensures compliance with all NMHS policies and requirements.
- Ensures that staffing levels and coverage are adequate to meet patient care and regulatory requirements.
- Assumes managerial duties for performance evaluations and maintains systems to provide regular feedback and evaluation for employees; i.e. 90-day performance evaluations, mid-year coaching sessions/evaluations, and year-end performance evaluations.
- Works closely with nursing leadership and ancillary departments to maintain a positive patient and family-centered care environment within NMHS and its affiliates.
- Assists the Director of Nursing and Chief Nursing Officer with developing and implementing staff training and development programs to meet continuing education and contractual requirements and to further knowledge of medical care and working in a team environment.
- Organizes and manages nursing service activities of the unit in compliance with the medical plan of care, regulatory, and accrediting agency standards.
- Works alongside clinical nurse educators to coordinate and schedule educational classes and other training needs related to staff development.
- 24-Hour accountability for supervising and evaluating work performance in terms of patient care, unit relations, and efficiency of service; making decisions that require expert clinical judgment.
- Performance Improvement
- Resource Asset:
- Communication:
- Records:
- Research:
- Identifies deviations from current best practices in the patient care area
- Follow-ups with care provider-identified problems in patient-practices
- Assists care providers with developing and implementing change in best-practices
- Presents research findings to key participants for required approval
- Disseminates research findings to all personnel to provide a basis for proposed change
- Customer Relations/Satisfaction:
- Projects a caring, friendly and helpful image to patients and customers. Performs leader rounding to improve on patient satisfaction and follow up with customer concerns.
- Assures that patient experience goals, clinical goals, and quality standards are met.
- Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and caregivers.
- Acts as a liaison for the unit and monitors patient satisfaction scores and implements plans for improvement.
- Self-Development:
- Regulatory Knowledge:
- Productivity/Budget:
- Prepares, maintains, and operates nursing unit within budgetary allowances.
- Maintains nursing supplies inventory by studying usage reports, identifying trends, anticipating needed supplies, approving requisitions and cost allocations.
- Develops and administers a budget, leads cost efficient and effective operations, creates plan of correction for any operating expenses that deviate from budgetary allowance.
- Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.
- Staffing:
- Monitors patient volumes and flexes staffing according to the unit's staffing matrix by maintaining a departmental spreadsheet to ensure appropriate utilization of nursing staff resources.
- Daily monitoring of productivity to ensure needs are within budgetary guidelines.
- Creates and maintains a unit schedule that assures adequate staffing for patient volumes which promotes safe and effective patient care.
- Works in conjunction with nursing supervisors and other nurse managers to ensure appropriate staffing coverage is in place for all nursing departments while following budgetary guidelines to decrease overtime and increase productivity.
- Clinical Practice
- Maintains nursing operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.
- Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing department's mission and vision and standards of care; enforcing and adhering to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations; measuring health outcomes against standards; making or recommending adjustments.
- Assures that nursing and ancillary staff practice within their individual scopes of practice.
- Implements and conducts regular meetings with staff to ensure full understanding and compliance for all NMHS policies and procedures.
- Organizes services and systems necessary for the multidisciplinary approach throughout the continuum of care; assume responsibility for the clinical and financial performance of the assigned unit.
- Knowledge of general nursing principles and NMHS practices and policies.
- Licensed as RN in the state of Mississippi, BSN required, MSN preferred.
- Must have prior knowledge and experience in area of supervision (3-5 years preferred).
- Ability to work with computers; extensive verbal, written, and oral communication skills, including strong organizational detail and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to develop policy and procedures, skills checklist, and development of competencies.
- Must maintain department requirements for continuing education and any specific unit requirements to provide care for pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
- Knowledge of current literature in the field of nursing and hospital administration, along with training and supervisory techniques.