Charge Nurse; RN - Behavioral Health

Overview

Are you a results-driven leader ready to make a meaningful impact to patients, caregivers, and your community? At The Hospitals of Providence - Memorial Campus hospital, we are seeking an innovative and experienced healthcare leader to drive excellence and inspire our team towards exceptional patient outcomes and operational success.

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off
• Career development and continuing education opportunities
• Health savings accounts, health & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance

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Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status.

Job Type: Full Time | Job Shift: Night

This role is responsible for providing guidance and support to staff, maintaining a safe environment, ensuring patient throughput, and directing nursing staff. The charge nurse is responsible for the smooth and efficient patient flow within the unit, delegates assignments and provides supervision for the support staff in accordance with their level of training and the patient’s acuity. The charge nurse works, in cooperation with medical providers to insure the quality of patient care.

This role also provides direct clinical patient care. The role will assume responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing direct clinical care to assigned patients on a per shift basis, and unit level. The role is responsible for supervision of staff to which appropriate care is delegated. The Charge Nurse reports to the appropriate clinical leader with oversight by the CNO to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management related to patient care.

• Oversight of patient admissions, transfers and discharges.
• Mentor and train new staff while providing support and guidance to all staff members.
• Monitor medical charts and administer compassionate care and assistance to patients and families.
• Liaise with doctors and administrators and communicate any protocol changes to staff.
• Ensure compliance with all health and safety regulations and maintain accurate reports.
• Provide high-quality, safe, cost-effective, total nursing care to all patients assigned.
• Coordinate and integrate patient care based on the nursing process.
• Direct care according to established standards of safety, risk management, QI, and infection control.
• Administer all medications safely and in a timely manner per hospital policy.
• Perform and fulfill all HICS responsibilities, assignments, tasks, and roles as directed and needed by the facility in times of emergency and/or disaster.
• Know and adhere to the hospital’s emergency codes and related policies.

• Required:
  
  Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Preferred:
  Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in nursing.

• Required:
  
  1 year of RN experience.

• Required:
  
  Current nursing license registered to practice in the state of employment, AHA BLS, and if applicable by corporate policy for unit of hire, AHA ACLS and/or PALS and/or NRP.

The Hospitals of Providence have faithfully been serving our community since 1902. Generations of families have chosen our hospitals to be a steward of health in the El Paso community. Our five hospitals include a children’s hospital committed to providing the care patients need, when they need it. Today, the Hospitals of Providence are comprised of our region's most trusted hospitals, each dedicated to meeting our families' specific healthcare needs.

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