Charge nurse Jobs in Cape coral fl

Job Details

Job Location

Cape Coral - HUB - Cape Coral, FL

Description

Sanitas is a global healthcare organization expanding across United States. Our services include primary care, urgent care, nutrition, lab, diagnostic, health care education and resources for our patients. We strive to attract professionals who believe in our mission, vision and are dedicated to the service of our patients and their families creating a memorable experience through compassion, respect, and kindness."

Job Summary

This position is a Registered Nurse (RN) who performs work in the outpatient setting in an assigned geographical area at one or multiple facilities and serves as an onsite nursing level clinical and training support for other nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP). This nurse works with the established company protocols and by the direction and guidance of Nursing Leadership. The RN reports to, supports and collaborates with operations and medical leadership of each assigned facility to ensure the clinical staff are performing at their highest potential. The Charge Nurse performs skilled nursing procedures that cannot be performed by or delegated to UAP. This role promotes quality outpatient bedside nursing care and leads by coaching and mentoring a core group of clinical staff. In addition, this position assists in ensuring a safe and effective work environment.

Essential Job Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Performs required duties from one or multiple assigned medical center locations while supporting the clinical team with emergent patient care needs.
• Performs training and competency 90-day / yearly skills assessment for new / established clinical designated staff. Perform clinical interviews with medical assistants and nurse candidates as needed to ensure candidates possess basic clinical safety skills.
• Serves as role model to staff, reinforcing principles of service orientation and ensuring that the focus is always on improving patient care and / or services.
• Establishes effective, two-way communication with interdepartmental staff and leaders as a liaison between operations and clinical teams.
• Ensures a safe and effective working environment.
• Performs and coaches the staff on regulatory required safety guidelines and walkthroughs, including infection control, emergency kits and equipment, patient identification, and clinical errors prevention.
• Monitors compliance with policies, procedures, Standards of Practice and performs associated actions upon non-compliance after reporting to direct facilities management and Nursing Leadership.
• Practices and is proficient in proper delegation standards. Assist in the yearly policies and procedures required review as designated by Nursing Leadership.
• Communicates to Nursing Leadership the performance status of their area's productivity, policy compliance and staff development
• Oversee that clinical procedures are being performed properly such as vaccinations, medication injections, EKGs, earl lavages, among others.
• Assists in the maintenance of medical center's budget and inventory by placing cost-effective weekly orders of clinical supply and vaccines.
• Performs direct patient care nursing procedures such as wound cares, Intravenous Access, and those out of the scope of a medical assistant.

Qualifications

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervisory responsibilities

Required Education

Required Experience

Required Licenses and Certifications

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Preferred Qualifications

Financial Responsibilities

None of the above - This position does not currently handle physical money or negotiate contracts

N / A

Budget Responsibilities

This position does not currently have Budget Responsibility

N / A

Languages

English

Advanced

Spanish

Preferred

Creole

Preferred

Travel

Required

Travel is required most of the time if assigned to multiple facilities.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to work standing up, walk, use hands to operate tools and equipment and must be able to exert regularly up to 10 pounds of force, frequently exert 30 pounds of force and occasionally exert 50 pounds of force to constantly perform the essential job functions. The employee will be frequently required to reach with hands and arms, bend, balance, kneel, crouch, crawl, push, and pull. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Environmental Conditions

Inside : The employee is subject to environmental conditions, protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The worker is subject to noise; there may be sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level.

Physical / Environmental Activities

Please indicate with an X the frequency for the activities that apply to the essential functions of the job based on the chart below. Please select Not Required for physical demands that aren't essential to job performance.

Working Condition

Not Required

Occasionally

1-33%)

Frequently

34-66%)

Constantly

67-100%)

Must be able to travel to multiple locations for work (i.e.

travel to attend meetings, events, conferences).

May be exposed to outdoor weather conditions of cold,

heat, wet, and humidity.

May be exposed to outdoor or warehouse conditions of loud

noises, vibration, fumes, dust, odors, and mists.

Must be able to ascend and descend ladders, stairs, or other equipment.

Subject to exposure to hazardous material.

We are an Equal Opportunity / Protected Veteran / Disabled Employer committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable culture for our employees and communities.

This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of the company. Since no job description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the jobholder's responsibility.