Charge Nurse; RN; Observation

Overview

Are you a results-driven leader ready to make a meaningful impact to patients, caregivers, and your community? At Desert Regional Medical Center hospital, were seeking an innovative and experienced healthcare leader to drive excellence and inspire our team towards exceptional patient outcomes and operational success.

At Desert Regional Medical Center, we understand that our greatest asset is our dedicated team of professionals. That’s why we offer more than a job – we provide a comprehensive benefit package that prioritizes your health, professional development, and work-life balance. The available plans and programs include:

• 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, healthcare & 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

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

Job Shift: Nights

Job Type: Full Time

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The Clinical Manger is responsible for the day-to-day shift operations in the Emergency Department. He/she manages human resources at the unit level in a cost-effective manner. The clinical Manager promptly and fully investigates and resolves complaints of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians, advising management / administration appropriately. The Clinical Manager demonstrates an ability to respond and provide direction in changing workload during crisis and emergency situations.

The Clinical Manager accepts responsibility for helping employees understand difficult administrative decisions. Access to all Patient Health Information for treatment purposes only.

• Provides leadership of the telemetry staff related to care of the telemetry/progressive care patient and associated interventional cardiology protocols and medication
• Obtains information and interpret information in terms of the patient’s needs
• Demonstrates knowledge of growth and development
• Understands the range of treatment needed as appropriate to the ages of the patients served
• Participates in the management of human resources through assisting, evaluation, counseling, and hiring of staff
• Ensures that a current criteria-based job performance standard and applicable competencies exist for each member of the staff
• Ensures that performance evaluations are completed in a timely fashion for both annual and probationary evaluations
• Facilitates the appropriate completion and timely submission of human Resource documentation
• Appropriately counsels and disciplines staff in a timely manner
• Interviews and hires staff
• Coordinates timely attendance at hospital orientation and all mandatory continuing education programs for employees
• Assures current, comprehensive, and timely department-specific orientation for all new employees
• Maintains current records on all employees at unit level to include yearly certification, current licensure, evidence of continuing education and compliance with unit competencies
• Maintains an open communication with staff on organization, national health care and professional issues
• Promotes sound staffing practices by optimizing the utilization of human resources keeping in line with established bench marking and acuity data
• Utilizes individual patient classification system which predicts nursing care requirements by shift, and maintains documentation to discern trends and patterns of nursing care delivery by shift and staff mix in the daily staffing of the unit
• Assesses and assists in…