Lead Primary Care Nurse - Coatesville

Lead Primary Care Nurse

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is seeking a Lead Primary Care Nurse for their Coatesville Primary Care office. This position will be Monday-Friday and the shift will be based off of the operational need.

Two years of nursing, previous pediatric, leadership, primary care and/or ambulatory experience preferred.

The Lead Nurse provides leadership and direct day to day supervision of staff. Functions within the organizational structure to ensure nursing clinical practice is consistent with professional nursing practice standards, applicable legal statues, and state regulations addressing nursing practice and the delivery of health care in the ambulatory setting. Identifies opportunities and set priorities to continuously improve nursing and organizational performance.

Creates learning environments based on shared decision making, evidence and research, organizational strategic directions and advances in health care. Institutes practices and models behaviors that inspire and engage nurses and others to perform optimally focused on organizational mission and achievement of patient goals. Works collaboratively with Nurse Manager. Site Manager and Medical Leadership to provide value-based patient care. Must be willing to rotate to other Care Network sites within the designated cluster.

What you will do:

• Plans for and institutes practices that promote the organizations capacity to provide resources that ensure continuity of care among primary care, specialties, other disciplines and across health care systems.
• Evaluates and manages the performance of nursing personnel and outcomes of nursing care delivery systems. Monitors staff performance with feedback given on a regular basis.
• Staffing plans reflect the requirements of state practice acts, regulatory mandates and professional standards in accordance with organizationally defined standards to safely meet needs of patient care.
• Participates in the performance evaluations with Nurse Manager in a timely manner congruent with organizational policy and guidelines.
• Initiates activities that focus on improving the quality of clinical nursing practice and nursing care delivery system.
• Adheres to regulatory, ethical and professional standards in business and care delivery practices. Role models ethical practices in patient care and business situations.
• Addresses conflict openly, using tactful, sensitive measures to mediate mutually beneficial resolutions.
• Sets standards, serves as a role model, and set expectations for conducting and participating in performance improvement initiatives
• Implement an ongoing, proactive program to identify and eliminate safety risks to patients or staff and risks for unanticipated adverse events.
• Assures that initial and ongoing competency assessments occur within organization-specific time frames using measurable performance criteria. Determines and documents nursing staff competency before assigning them to patient care responsibilities.
• Institutes policies and practices that include nursing staff in making shared decisions about nursing practice.
• Executes and monitors systems to assure consistent and appropriate resource assignment and utilization.
• Partners with Nurse Manager to identify and execute annual unit-based quality improvement initiatives that result in a measurable impact on quality, cost and resource utilization.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and develops an action plan to improve patient outcomes. Partner with nurse managers to identify opportunities.

Education

Qualifications:

• Technical Diploma Nursing
  - Required
• Bachelor's Degree Nursing
  - Preferred

Experience

Qualifications:

• At least two (2) years primary care or ambulatory nursing experience
  - Preferred
• At least one (1) year Pediatric experience
  - Preferred
• At least one (1) year Previous supervisory
  - Preferred

Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of:
• professional nursing theory and practice to give and evaluate patient care
• organizational policies, regulations, and procedures to administer patient care
• medical equipment and instruments to administer patient care
• common safety hazards and precautions to maintain a safe working environment
• Clinical Quality Management and Service Orientation
• regulatory requirements including the State Nurse Practice Act
• Skills:
• applying and modifying the principles, methods, and techniques of professional nursing to provide on-going patient care
• exercising initiative, judgement, problem solving and decision making
• preparing and maintaining records, writing reports, and responding to correspondence
• developing and maintaining department quality assurance
• leadership functions and provide role model to staff
• establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with patients, medical staff, and the public
• High degree of accountability and time management
• organizing, planning and prioritization
• communicate effectively in writing and verbally
• recruiting, developing and engaging talent
• building, motivating and influencing teams
• conflict management
• managing…