Lead Primary Care Nurse - Norristown

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A Brief Overview

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is seeking a Lead Primary Care Nurse for their Norristown Primary Care office. This position will be Monday-Friday and the shift will be dependent upon the operational need. Hiring manager prefers current and/or previous leadership experience.

The Lead Nurse provides leadership and direct day to day supervision of staff. Functions within the organizational structure to ensure nursing clinical practice is consistent with professional nursing practice standards, applicable legal statues, and state regulations addressing nursing practice and the delivery of healthcare in the ambulatory setting. Identifies opportunities and set priorities to continuously improve nursing and organizational performance. Creates learning environments based on shared decision making, evidence and research, organizational strategic directions and advances in health care. Institutes practices and models behaviors that inspire and engage nurses and others to perform optimally focused on organizational mission and achievement of patient goals. Works collaboratively with Nurse Manager. Site Manager and Medical Leadership to provide value-based patient care.

Must be willing to rotate to other Care Network sites within the designated cluster.


What you will do

• Plans for and institutes practices that promote the organizations capacity to provide resources that ensure continuity of care among primary care, specialties, other disciplines and across health care systems.
• Evaluates and manages the performance of nursing personnel and outcomes of nursing care delivery systems. Monitors staff performance with feedback given on a regular basis.
• Staffing plans reflect the requirements of state practice acts, regulatory mandates and professional standards in accordance with organizationally defined standards to safely meet needs of patient care.
• Participates in the performance evaluations with Nurse Manager in a timely manner congruent with organizational policy and guidelines.
• Initiates activities that focus on improving the quality of clinical nursing practice and nursing care delivery system.
• Adheres to regulatory, ethical and professional standards in business and care delivery practices. Role models ethical practices in patient care and business situations.
• Addresses conflict openly, using tactful, sensitive measures to mediate mutually beneficial resolutions.
• Sets standards, serves as a role model, and set expectations for conducting and participating in performance improvement initiatives
• Implement an ongoing, proactive program to identify and eliminate safety risks to patients or staff and risks for unanticipated adverse events.
• Assures that initial and ongoing competency assessments occur within organization-specific time frames using measurable performance criteria. Determines and documents nursing staff competency before assigning them to patient care responsibilities.
• Institutes policies and practices that include nursing staff in making shared decisions about nursing practice.
• Executes and monitors systems to assure consistent and appropriate resource assignment and utilization.
• Partners with Nurse Manager to identify an execute annual unit-based quality improvement initiatives that result in a measurable impact on quality, cost and resource utilization.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and develops an action plan to improve patient outcomes. Partner with nurse managers to identify opportunities.

Education Qualifications

• Technical Dipl