Nuse Senior, Charge RN - Women Children Charge Registered Nurse

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* Employment Type:

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* Full time

** Shift:*
* 12 Hour Day Shift

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* Description:

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* Position Title:

Nurse Senior-Charge Nurse*
* ** Shift: 1st shift*
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* Hours:

6am-6:30pm*
* ** POSITION PURPOSE*
* The licensed Registered Nurse (RN) plans & provides professional nursing services & standards of practice in accordance with level of experience & education, state board of nursing & established policies & procedures. The RN integrates the art, science, leadership & knowledge of nursing clinical practice through relationship-centered, compassionate, ethical & respectful direct / indirect healthcare services.

** FUNCTIONAL ROLE*
* RN - Senior:
Practice is guided by nursing process & policy / procedure / standards. Maintains focused area of expertise for care / program & / or provides interventions or knowledge within niche areas of care / program;
Advances professional / shared governance, collaborates inter & intra-professionally, delegates to others to advance care, assumes an expanded role & increased responsibility;
Able to lead a small team;
Serve as a unit / service / program nursing practice mentor & identify learning need of others.

** ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS*
* Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions  
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* ** Trinity Health Culture:
** Knows, understands, incorporates & demonstrates our Trinity Health Mission, Values, Vision, Actions & Promise in behaviors, practices & decisions. 

** Professional Nursing Practice:
** Acts independently & appropriately within license, scope of knowledge & experience in practice area.  Supports safety by adhering to standards & acting as a champion role model.  Accountable for personal learning & development by participating in knowledge, skill & competency enhancing activities.  

** Professional Nursing Process:
** Knows, understands, incorporates & demonstrates (document, teach, coordinate, advocate) standard elements of professional practice:
Assess, Diagnose, Outcomes Identification / Solutions, Plan, Implement, Evaluate (ANA);
Participates in the development of clinical standards that are collaborative, collegial & supported by current & relevant evidence-based practices, science, trends & data (clinical & administrative) & patient care (AONL).  

** Professional Leadership Practice:
** Inspires team to embrace the organization's Mission, Values & Vision;
Cultivates excellence by supporting growth & development of team;
Advocates for continuous development with focus on mentoring & succession planning;
Engages & fosters transpersonal teaching & learning in the context of the caring relationship;
Embraces & encourages humanistic-altruistic values & behaviors;
Advances nurses & others in the provision of quality-focused, patient-centered & relationship-based healthcare;
Utilizes transformational leadership principles (Magnet);
Leads team effectively through change, recognizing reach beyond nursing to include broader healthcare implications;
Embraces ideas & cultural differences while managing complex or competing priorities;
Enhances a culturally proficient work team through respect, dialogue & inclusion. 

** Professional Leadership Process:
** Provides leadership & retains accountability for delegation, choices, decisions & outcomes;
Collaborates with key stakeholders & contributes to quality & improvement practices;
Empowers staff to creatively problem-solve through the caring process (Caritas);
Enhances an environment that prioritizes patient & colleague safety utilizing established & evidence-based practices, tools, methodologies;
Drives effective patient, process, performance & stewardship / financial outcomes as measured by established metrics & trended data;
Exhibits agility & willingness to take on new & additional responsibilities.  

** Environment of Care:
** Facilitates a healing environment, reverentially encouraging and supporting basic needs as sacred acts, sustaining human dignity;
Practices in an environmentally safe, professional manner;
Values &  advocates for the patient's cultural beliefs & faith;
Monitors & initiates corrections or evidence-based practices;
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