Charge Registered Nurse

Major Responsibilities

• Assures appropriate peri-operative communication between clinical areas.
• Supervises and implements the daily surgical schedule.
• Collaborates with surgical schedulers on availability of OR scheduling times and works with physicians and/or physicians' offices to assure that cases are scheduled.
• Works with Anesthesia Coordinator to facilitate movement of patients to implement OR/ASC schedule. Collaborates with Anesthesia Coordinator to provide placement of add‑on cases to the existing schedule, assign appropriate staff to meet the clinical competence of the case.
• Participates in meeting all applicable regulatory agency requirements. Assists with vendor and visitor control.
• Minimizes turnaround of OR rooms through effective communication and supervision.
• Collaborates with physicians and staff to maintain efficient utilization of surgical time.
• Resolves interdisciplinary conflicts in a productive manner.
• Communicates with physicians, staff, peers, and Manager collaboratively and respectfully.
• Coordinates emergency activities (ex. Codes, Power Outage, etc.) Accountable for appropriate resource utilization and intradepartmental collaboration.
• Reviews and makes adjustments to staff assignments daily, utilizing appropriate level and numbers of caregivers in an effective manner.
• Participates with Surgical Specialists, ACM, and Managers in identifying opportunities for standardization and cost effect utilization of supplies/equipment.
• Demonstrates competence in all aspects of patient care.
• Provide report of all patients to oncoming Charge Nurse, remain aware of patient acuity, patient assignments, unit activity, and unstable patients.
• Demonstrates the ability to provide assistance in critical situations.
• Collaborates with Clinical Practice Manager to assign preceptors for new team members and students.
• Coordinates Disaster Plan specific to unit.
• Use prudent judgment in making patient assignments, ensuring appropriate patient load as deemed necessary for safe staffing. Provides supervision to promote quality patient care, the Key Result Areas, and the Advocate Experience.
• Reports significant events such as near misses, adverse events, patient/family complaints, and other occurrences that affect the safe delivery of patient care in a timely manner.
• Performs the principal duties and responsibilities of the RN position and serves as a role model for professional practice.
• Assigns and delegates patient care activities and tasks to all team members of the intraoperative surgical team.
• Support quality improvement monitoring by: auditing crash cart, resolve pyxis discrepancies at end of each shift, audit pyxis on the first Monday of each month, audit glucose monitor controls are completed.
• Ensures compliance with infection control procedures.
• Prioritizes and manages patient delays in a timely manner.
• In collaboration with the Clinical Manager of Practice identifies educational needs of nursing staff and implement formal education geared toward enhancing nursing knowledge and the advancement of nursing practice.
• Provides direct patient care as a staff RN as needed; keeping up with clinical competencies with all service lines.
• Ensure hourly rounds are performed on all patients and staff and sure daily checklist completed and follow through on pending issues.
• Responsible for first line Service Recovery of patient, family, and physician complaints and effective communication of unresolved issues to Clinical Managers. Responsible for development, motivation, and evaluation of assigned team members.
• Participates in competency assessment.
• Monitors and evaluates orientees and provides feedback to Leadership Team.
• Serves as clinical resource and coach/mentor for staff.
• Collaborates with Surgical Specialists to assure physician privileges are in adherence.
• Responsible for communicating performance or behavioral feedback that does not meet performance expectations for the Behaviors of Excellence to the unit manager.
• Responsible for addressing behaviors and performance concerns in real time with verbal coaching and redirection of the team.
• Ensures compliance with infection control procedure. Performs the principal duties and…