Maternity Services Registered Nurse Clinical Leader

Position: Maternity Services Registered Nurse Clinical Leader 36hrs 7pm to 7am
** Education/Training
*** Bachelor’s degree in nursing
** Licenses/Certification:*
* • Current Massachusetts state RN license
• All RNs must have current BLS certification
• ACLS is required with BLS for RN positions on the following units/departments:
Telemetry, ICU, ED, Cardiac Rehab, Endoscopy, LDRP, PACU, Med/Surg
• NRP and Intermediate Fetal Monitoring is required with ACLS and BLS for RNs on   LDRP
• PALS is required with ACLS and BLS for RNs on PACU and ED   Job
** Required

Qualifications and Skills:

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* • Minimum of 2 years of Clinical Nursing experience in acute care setting
• Excellent quality of Nursing Care as part of a comprehensive care team
• Excellent communication and customer services skills required.
• Successful completion of orientation and annual competencies.
• Must meet all criteria associated with responsibilities detailed in this document and the core/unit specific competencies for registered nurses.
** Preferred

Qualifications and Skills:

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* • Minimum of 5 years of Clinical Nursing experience preferred***
* • Advanced certification in applicable area
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* Essential Job Functions:

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* • Must possess excellent interpersonal communication skills, command of verbal and written   English; good organizational skills, and adaptability, creating positive relationships with   patients and families, themself, and colleagues, including the nursing department and the   hospital as whole.
** Professional Governance*
* • Collaborates and supports the health care team in the delivery of quality and fiscally  responsible patient-focused care as evidenced by providing/directing nursing care throughout  the life span with consideration of the aging process developmental and cultural patterns in  each step of the nursing process.
• Facilitates an interdisciplinary approach to patient care, patient flow, staffing, resource  utilization, and problem solving on a given shift.
• Monitors and evaluates the assignment of patient care to the appropriate nursing personnel  based on patient needs and acuity level.
• Provides guidance regarding patient care and other job-related requirements.
• Participates in quality assessment and improvement programs to evaluate effectiveness of  care delivered.
• Enhances unit behaviors through encouragement of education implementation of new  concepts and technology.
• Provides leadership in the development of policies procedures standards of care and critical  paths to promote positive patient outcomes.
• Collaborates on development of unit staffing schedule to provide a fiscally sound and safe  staffing pattern which meets patient and family needs and expectations.
• Facilitates, stimulates, and evaluates human resources to provide quality, cost-efficient  patient care by staffing the patient care unit to meet patient needs based on the ANA staffing  principles or the appropriate staffing principles for the specialty area.
• Effectively utilizes resources to develop cost efficient delivery of high-quality services and  patient care.
• Documents and communicates staff performance with recommendations for quality and  growth.
• Identifies and resolves nursing care conflicts related to the unit.
• Collaborates with Nursing Faculty and students to meet educational needs.
• Participates in the staff recruitment and retention process.
• Monitors and adjusts staffing and scheduling as needed.
• Contributes to the organizational plan for development of short and long-term goals by  providing unit leadership coverage in collaboration with the Nurse Manager directing and  supervising unit staff and communicating the status of unit operations activities and issues to  the Nurse Manager or appropriate discipline.
• Participates in unit meetings and recommends patient care/fiscal objectives standards and  goals. Chairs unit staff meetings in collaboration with the Nurse Manager.
• Participates in the formation of policy, procedures and standards via organizational  committees and compliance to regulatory standards.
• Collaborates with the health care team to foster communication with patients and family  members to facilitate positive patient outcomes and discharge planning.
• Develop and maintain…