Team lead​/Clinical Nurse IV - Emergency Department

Join the dedicated Emergency Department team at UNC REX Healthcare, where compassionate care, clinical excellence, and teamwork come together to make a difference in the lives of our patients and community.

UNC REX Emergency Department features 54 beds, including an 8-bed non-designated holding area with private rooms specifically designed to support behavioral health patients. Our department is equipped with two major resuscitation rooms, dedicated triage rooms for initial assessments, an on-site radiology suite, and a decontamination room.

Our team provides comprehensive emergency care for a wide range of patient needs, from life-threatening emergencies and acute medical conditions to minor injuries and behavioral health concerns.

• Eligible applicants may qualify for our Incentive Program
• Up to $10,000 in relocation assistance, based on location
• Eligibility for the Employee Referral Program
• Excellent Benefit Package

• Schedule:
  
  40 hours per week
• Shift Opportunities: 11 am-11 pm or 3 pm-3 am (staffing shifts)
• Administrative Time:
  Included in the 40 hr schedule
• Nurse-to-Patient Ratio: 1:4, depending on patient acuity and department assignment
• Experience:
  
  Previous Emergency Department experience preferred

Serves as nursing Team Leader. Provides education, training, and oversight to assigned nursing staff.

• EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  - Coordinates, designs and implements educational programs to meet identified learning needs of staff, patients and families. Promotes and ensures staff participation in continuing education, orientation, competency, in-service and staff development offerings. Participates in development and implementation of competency initiatives. Serves as an area of specialty consultant in the design of educational programs. Participates in development of and provides clinical expertise for patient education materials.
  
  Promotes professional growth of self and staff. Promotes a conducive environment for learning and provides educational experiences for students.
• EVALUATION
  - Evaluates patient progress and revises plan accordingly. Maintains accountability for carrying out components of the plan. Works with manager to ensure care on unit is accordance with policies and procedures.
• IMPLEMENTATION
  - Promotes an environment that values diversity, open communication, teamwork and exceptional service. Ensures that appropriate care and services are available to patients, clients and families for assigned shift. Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration in patient/client care planning to achieve desired patient outcomes. Coordinates care with interdisciplinary team members. Demonstrates and role models clinical expertise in specified patient population and shares expertise with other staff.
  
  Promotes and ensures the use of the nursing process to provide quality patient care. Assesses and anticipates patient and family learning needs and organizes resources to ensure that they are met. Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
• LEADERSHIP
  - Creates and promotes an environment conducive to recruiting and retaining staff. Provides feedback to Manager/Supervisor and Director to assist in hiring, promoting, transferring and terminating staff. Assists Nurse Manager by providing assigned staff with performance feedback and opportunity to set professional goals. Models and promotes behaviors that effectively give continual feedback to staff and colleagues. Integrates best practice standards regarding retention of staff in all aspects of practice.
• ASSESSMENT
  - Synthesizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care. Includes…