Behavioral Health Charge Nurse at SSM Health summary:
The Behavioral Health Charge Nurse at SSM Health DePaul Hospital provides leadership in coordinating unit staffing while ensuring quality patient care. This role involves assessing patient care needs, directing nursing staff, and collaborating with advanced practice providers to achieve optimal outcomes. The position requires a registered nurse with experience and encompasses responsibilities such as performance evaluations, addressing patient care complaints, and managing staff.
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MO-SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis
Worker Type:
Regular
Job Summary:
Provides leadership and coordination of unit staffing while ensuring implementation of clinical objectives and quality patient care.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements:
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assigns, directs, educates and monitors nursing and support staff during assigned shift. Contributes to or performs performance evaluations of staff.
- Assesses daily patient care needs and develops and distributes patient care assignments, ensuring that population appropriate patient care is given.
- Collaborates with advanced practice providers to ensure quality outcomes.
- Evaluates the effectiveness of patient care and identifies any issues that affect desired patient outcomes.
- Responds to complaints about patient care and manages through established channels.
- May provide input for hiring, training, directing, developing and evaluating staff.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing
EXPERIENCE
- One year registered nurse experience
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
- Constant standing and walking.
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
- Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Occasional driving.
- Rare crawling and running.
Work Shift:
Night Shift (United States of America)
Employee
Department:
1200020128 BHS - Adult N
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
36
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Keywords:
Behavioral Health, Charge Nurse, Nursing Leadership, Patient Care, Clinical Staff Coordination, Healthcare Quality, Registered Nurse, Patient Outcomes, Nursing Staff Management, Healthcare Administration
