Charge RN, Jewish Hospital, Cardiac/Pulmonary PCU
Listed on 2026-01-01
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Nursing
Charge Nurse, Healthcare Nursing
Charge RN, Jewish Hospital, 4 West Cardiac Pulmonary PCU, 7p-7a
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Address
200 Abraham Flexner Way Louisville, KY 40202
Address
200 Abraham Flexner Way Louisville, KY 40202
Shift
Nights 7P - 7A (United States of America)
Job Description Summary
The Charge Nurse assists the Clinical Manager and/or Nursing Director with the management of the unit including participating in employee evaluation, staffing and scheduling, patient and preceptor assignments, oversight of resource utilization, and initiating and overseeing quality improvement activities. The Charge Nurse acts as a resource and provides information/education to unit staff. The charge nurse is involved in service recovery, promoting customer service to both internal and external customers.
The Charge Nurse is a role model and proponent of the professional nurse as exemplified by their presence on the unit, participation in nursing department initiatives such as the acquisition of Magnet Certification, and organizational committee meetings.
Job Description
About the Unit
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West is a high acuity 21-bed progressive care unit that provides specialized nursing care for adult patients that require various oxygen therapies including BIPAP therapy, administration of titratable and non-titratable medications as well as adminstration of blood products. Cardiac patient diagnosis range from post cardiac catheterization, myocardial infarctions, and congestive heart failure exacerbations. While pulmonary patient can include complications of chronic respiratory disease including those suffering from cystic fibrous, tracheotomy, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis and tother diseases affecting the lung.
About Jewish Hospital
Jewish Hospital, part of UofL Health, is an internationally renowned, high-tech tertiary referral center, developing leading-edge advancements in hand and microsurgery, heart and lung care, orthopedics and sports medicine, neuroscience, organ transplantation and outpatient care. The hospital is the site of the world’s first successful hand transplant and Abio Cor implantable replacement heart procedures, in addition to the first trial of adult cardiac stem cells in chronic heart failure.
Jewish Hospital continues to be recognized for its specialized heart care procedures, including the implantation of ventricular assist devices (VAD), and transcatheter aortic valve replacement. The UofL Health – Trager Transplant Center is in a select group of hospitals nationwide that perform heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas and hand transplantation. The center also includes a Pancreas Disease Center, a GI Motility Clinic, and Advanced Heart Failure and VAD programs.
Essential Functions
- Participates in assessing and cost-effectively meeting staffing needs and resource utilization within the budget of the department of the unit; confers with unit nursing leadership when making preceptor/nurse assignments; assigns patients and tasks according to staff expertise and patient acuity and assumes responsibility for functioning of the unit on a shift-to-shift basis
- Serves as a role model for staff regarding customer relations, monitors unit customer service and intervenes as necessary; rounds on internal and external customers based on unit requirements
- Participates in employee evaluations, counsels and coaches employees when necessary, and implements disciplinary process according to policy including time and attendance issues; remains knowledgeable of regulatory standards and ensures staff are maintaining and adhering to all department and facility policies; maintains anecdotal documentation.
- Participates in the review and investigation of occurrence reports; intervenes and develops action plans for actual events and near misses and shares the results with…
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