Charge Nurse, Fh - Sw - Internal Medicine

• Clear sense of purpose" and meaningful work.
• Supportive colleagues and strong working relationships.
• Complex patient populations and advanced medical cases, which can accelerate professional growth and skill development.
• Opportunities to move between departments, specialties, hospitals, and clinics within the network, creating pathways for long-term career advancement.
• No force mandating.

• Clear sense of purpose" and meaningful work.
• Supportive colleagues and strong working relationships.
• Complex patient populations and advanced medical cases, which can accelerate professional growth and skill development.
• Opportunities to move between departments, specialties, hospitals, and clinics within the network, creating pathways for long-term career advancement.
• No force mandating.

Shift Details:  Holidays:
No holidays Weekends:
Every third

The Charge Nurse is a Registered Nurse with unit lead responsibilities for patient flow and adjustment of unit staffing to meet the dynamic needs of the patients. The Charge Nurse will use the nursing process to make ongoing evaluations of patients' acuity, assessments of the staff nurses workload, and anticipate fluctuations in admissions, discharges and transfers. The facilitation of patient flow includes triaging and prioritizing admissions and overseeing the care coordination of patients being discharged/transferred.

Daily nurse staffing includes employing effective decision-making behaviors that are used to safely balance changes in patient acuity and census with the availability, experience and competency of the staff nurses, to ensure safe and adequate staffing for all shifts. The Charge Nurse will demonstrate resourcefulness, tactful communication, flexibility, adaptability, decisiveness and awareness of the global needs of the hospital. The Charge Nurse will be a clinical leader and resource on the unit, collaborating with the interdisciplinary team to facilitate patient care stay progression and unit goals.

The Charge Nurse will assume a patient assignment as determined by the needs of the unit. As appropriate and/or delegated by the Nurse Manager, the Charge Nurse monitors and intervenes in addressing opportunities for assuring regulatory compliance, quality effectiveness and a satisfactory patient experience. When working as a clinical Staff RN the Charge Nurse is a practitioner who is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care for an identified group of patients in an inpatient environment.

This individual demonstrates competency in delivery of care to a primarily adult population. The Staff RN-Inpatient job description has incorporated essential functions which are adapted from the ANA Nursing:
Scope and Standards of Practice, 2nd Edition (2010).

Clinical competence and experience in the care and management of target patient populations specific to area of employment is required. A minimum of 2 years of related clinical experience is required, unless approved by the Unit Manager. If applying to Critical Care position, must have 2 years of Critical Care experience, unless approved by the Unit Manager.

Bachelors Degree in Nursing is required. Will consider current Froedtert Health non BSN prepared RNs with demonstrated leadership skills that have at least 5 years experience as an RN, CNA or other clinical roles in an acute care setting and formal commitment and plan to obtain a Bachelors Degree in Nursing within 5 years of starting in role. If an incumbent is…