The posting
The Unit Lead Nurse is responsible for assisting with clinical management and assisting with the administrative coordination of the nursing unit. The position is a combination of clinical (direct care) and assisting with administrative unit responsibilities to ensure effective delivery of evidenced based clinical patient care. Assists with ensuring compliance with administrative and clinical policies and procedures. ; ;The key components of the Quality-Caring Model (QCM) are interwoven throughout the delivery of care within nursing and nurses are expected to utilize the QCM and a framework for providing excellent nursing care to their patients, developing collegial relationships with the healthcare team, and implementing self-care and self reflective behaviors to restore balance to ones' self.
Core Competencies
- Adheres to infection prevention guidelines
- Adheres to policies, procedures, and standards of practice to deliver safe and optimal care
- Assesses patient history, physiological, and psychosocial status
- Communicates with the patient, family, medical staff and others during the continuum of care
- Complies with Joint Commission’s national patient safety goals
- Complies with organizational quality dashboard/benchmarking goals
- Interprets common variables affecting patient care and follows reporting process
- Maintains regulatory compliance consistent with quality standards and ethical obligations of the profession
- Participates in activities in alignment with the Magnet Model
- Participates in organizational activities
- Participates in Peer Review
- Participates in professional development activities
- Performs as a preceptor in an active and engaged manner
- Provides age-specific individualized care that supports protection from harm and complies with patient safety centered interventions/bundles
- Provides patient and family education throughout the care of patient
- Uses critical thinking to formulate and carry out a care plan according to patient needs
- Utilizes resources in an economical manner
- Utilizes safe administration of medications
- Utilizes Safe Patient Handling
Department Specific Competencies
- Confirms order for cardiac teaching; provides appropriate cardiac teaching and materials and assists with ambulating as needed.
- Provides cardiac education to support the patient and family understanding of CAD and recovery in order to reduce risk factors.
- Prevents, recognizes and facilitates treatment of abnormal cardiac rhythms.
- Documents patient information in appropriate clinical format in Cardiac Rehab and completes in a timely manner, ie Medicare reports, patient charts.
- Assumes the responsibility of leadership position in absence of Lead RN or supervisor.
- Functions as the clinical expert and resource, directing patient care activities on the unit, as evidenced by attendance at mandatory leadership classes, courses and inservices.
- Participates with unit manager and other unit members in developing action plans to achieve identified performance improvement objectives: implementation of patient safety goals and research protocols/evidence based practice, cost reduction/control, improving quality of care, efficient and timely patient throughput and improving the patient experience
- Supports the annual budget for the individual unit by meeting established productivity standards through appropriate flexing when needed, maintaining staffing matrix guidelines and unit specific ratios.
- Develops a plan with the unit manager and/or the nurse staffing office to meet unit staffing needs based on the acuity of the patients in the department
- Assists with statistical analysis of bench-marked data with leadership and staff and assists in developing strategies for improvement utilizing lead methodologies.
- Works in collaboration with unit supervisor to educate and provides inservices for staff development related to MDS and Resident Assessment Instrument.
- Supports the annual budget for the individual unit
- Keeps current on clinical, unit, department and medical center changes; shares information and coaches staff members about their responsibility to be well informed
- Determines unit priorities for shift with regard to patient care, patient flow, staffing and distribution interrelated with acuity and staff competency levels Adjusts patient care assignment based on patient needs/acuities, staff competencies, skill mix, patient flow requirements and staffing matrix Facilitates staff breaks before end of shift.
- Assists with the management of efficiencies of unit activities to meet established productivity standards
Education
Degree
Program
Bachelors
Nursing
Experience
Number of Years Experience
Type of Experience
2
2 years in your area of practice
License / Certification Requirements
Registered Nurse License
BCLS or ACLS Certification
Certification in specialty within 12 months of hire
Compensation Range:
$63.29 -105.58 / Hour
