Registered Nurse *Charge Capable

Job Overview

• Job Title: Registered Nurse
  * Charge Capable*
• Req :
• Location: VMC Main Campus
• Department: NICU
• Shift: Nights
• Type: Full Time
• FTE: 0.9
• Salary Range: $46.94 - $85.76 per hour (DOE)

Provide safe, quality nursing care to a group of patients for a designated time frame, using the nursing process as the basis for clinical practice.

Responsibilities include:

• Assess, guide, direct, and facilitate workflow on the unit, and assume charge responsibilities when needed.
• Make staff assignments reflecting patient acuity, continuity of care, staff competency, and unit activity.
• Mentor staff, float, and agency personnel regarding policies, procedures, standards, and goals.
• Integrate new staff and agency staff into the unit culture.
• Lead and serve as a role model for clinical staff.
• Act as a clinical resource, demonstrating safe equipment use and teaching others.
• Identify resource RNs for LPNs, PCAs, and MSTs as necessary.
• Monitor and evaluate nursing care through direct observation, consultation, and patient rounds.
• Assess unit/environmental safety, reporting and correcting deficiencies.
• Maintain awareness of Joint Commission standards, state codes, and practice acts, monitoring documentation compliance.
• Demonstrate excellent customer service skills and respond to patient/family concerns.
• Report significant events to supervisors and activate the chain of command per policy.
• Provide input into performance appraisal of clinical staff on the shift.
• Evaluate and provide adequate break coverage.
• Maintain fiscal responsibility by monitoring staffing and determining future shift needs with sound judgment.
• Carry personal responsibility to maintain competencies for direct patient care and team leadership.
• Collaborate with bed placement and clinical resources to expedite placement.
• Conduct bedside shift reports and shift safety interventions.

• BSN preferred.
• Current licensure as RN in Washington.
• Successful completion of a graduate nurse residency program or six months experience as an RN.
• ACLS BLS for healthcare providers required.

• BSN.
• Two years practice in clinical nursing/leadership in area of responsibility preferred.
• Unit specific prerequisites (see addendum).

• Demonstrates leadership skills with ability to lead and manage a team, utilize clinical judgment, inquiry, innovation, and systems thinking.
• Able to communicate effectively in oral and written form.
• Adheres to the Professional Appearance Policy.
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills that are community-centered, compassionate, and meet the needs of diverse and vulnerable populations.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with the physical and emotional development of all age groups.
• Practices in a caring environment with excellent customer service skills.
• Functions within ANA Standards and the Nurse Practice Act.
• Ability to access information and communicate in an electronic environment, including order entry, e‑mail, and documentation.
• Self‑directed in advancing professional practice through continuing education and research.

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