Charge Nurse - Surgical Unit, Dayshift

Job Summary:

Definition of Shared Governance: Shared governance is a professional structural model, founded on the cornerstone principles of partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership that form a culturally sensitive and empowering framework, enabling sustainable and accountability-based decisions to support an interdisciplinary design for excellent patient care.

Standards of Care

• Assessment
  • Medical-surgical nurses collect client health data.
• Diagnosis
  • Medical-surgical nurses analyze the assessment data in determining diagnosis.
• Outcome Identification
  • Medical-surgical nurses identify expected outcomes unique to the client.
• Planning
  • Medical-surgical nurses develop a plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
• Implementation
  • Medical-surgical nurses implement the interventions identified in the plan of care.
• Evaluation
  • Medical-surgical nurses evaluate the client's progress toward attainment of outcomes.

Essential Job Duties:

Performance Standards

• Quality Care
  • The Medical-surgical nurse systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
• Performance Appraisal
  • Medical-surgical nurses evaluate their own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards, statutes, and regulations.
• Education
  • Medical-surgical nurses acquire and maintain current knowledge in nursing practice.  Medical-surgical nurses pursue knowledge to enhance nursing expertise and advance the profession.
• Collegiality
  • Medical-surgical nurses interact with, and contribute to, the professional development of peers and other health care providers as colleagues.
• Ethics
  • Medical-surgical nurses deliver care in a nonjudgmental, nondiscriminatory, sensitive, and culturally competent manner.
• Collaboration
  • Medical-surgical nurses collaborate with the client, family members, significant others, and health care providers in providing care.
• Research
  • Medical-surgical nurses use research findings in practice.
• Resource Utilization
  • Medical-surgical nurses use research findings in practice.
• Communication
  • Medical-surgical nurses communicate effectively with clients, families, and other health care professionals.
• Leadership
  • Medical-surgical nurses use leadership skills to enhance client outcomes and foster a healthy work environment within the practice setting and profession.

Secondary Job Duties That May be Reassigned:

1. Monitor resources to maintain unit staffing standards and promote world class levels of patient satisfaction and outcomes.
2. Collaborates with the team to support a healthy work environment.
3. Assists with and/or facilitates resolution or management of customer issues/concerns/comments.

• Education: Bachelors Degree in Nursing effective January 2017 (with the exception of staff previously granted grandfather status).
• Licensure: Registered Nurse license from the Indiana State Board of Nursing.
• Experience: One year of nursing experience; specialty certification preferred.
• Required to maintain current BLS.  Specific departments may also require current ACLS or PALS.