Registered Nurse III - Clinical Charge Nurse - Unit D2

The Department of Public Health/Tewksbury Hospital is looking for professional and dedicated Registered Nurse III’s.  The RN III’s perform in a permanent charge position on the Patient Care Units. They provide primary nursing care to adult patients; establishes nursing plan of approach; participates as a member of the interdisciplinary team; assess health care and educational needs of patients and their families.  Assists in admissions and discharges.

Schedule: Monday through Friday, works every third weekend

Unit: D2

Shift: First 6:45 am - 3:15 pm

Duties and Responsibilities (these duties are a general summary and not all inclusive):

·       Provides Nursing Care for patients by following professional hospital and departmental standards in order to maintain quality care.

·       Identifies and addresses patient needs by performing nursing assessments, developing nursing interventions and participating in team meetings to facilitate discharge.

·       Assumes charge nurse responsibility on a daily basis to provide continuity of care.

·       Collaborates with Nurse Manager in supervision and evaluation of personnel.

·       Supervises employees of a lesser grade by assigning tasks, based on individual competencies, evaluating performance and making recommendations concerning performance to maintain a high level of quality care.

·       Provides instruction to other nursing staff by example and explanation to ensure quality services and to maintain professional standards of nursing.

·       Facilitates the implementation of treatment plans by interdisciplinary team by conferring with appropriate health care professional in order to meet the stated goal for each patient.

·       Admits, transfers and discharges patients, coordinating health care services to ensure continuity of care following standards established by hospital policy.

·       Identifies, evaluates and responds to changes in patient conditions, documenting and reporting such changes to appropriate person to ensure prompt response to patient needs.

·       Participates in inter-shift reports, meetings and nursing rounds at the beginning and end of each shift to assess health care status, outcomes of nursing care, appropriateness of nursing interventions, patient’s response to treatment, patient’s satisfaction, completion of unit assignments and adherence to environmental safety/infection control policies/procedures.

·       Collaborates with patient’s interdisciplinary team in multidisciplinary meetings and rounds to communicate pertinent patient care information with other health care professional and to integrate appropriate information in the nursing process and administrative aspects of care so that quality care is provided consistent with multidisciplinary plan and standards for patient advocacy/care.

·       Assures that education and training needs of patient/patients' families are assessed and identified so that pt./pts’ families gain the knowledge and skills that will improve pt. health care outcomes and meet the ongoing health care needs of the pt./pts’ family.

·       Observes interactions between patients and personnel to supervise nursing intervention and monitors and reviews documentation of nursing process to determine conformity to standards of professional practice, N