Registered Nurse (RN) - Maternal - Newborn
North Mississippi Health Services
Tupelo, MS

**JOB SUMMARY**

The Charge Nurse at North Mississippi Health Services is responsible for providing safe, quality patient care through the nursing process, ensuring compliance with policies and regulations, and maintaining effective communication with the multidisciplinary team. The Charge Nurse must also be able to respond to rapidly changing patient needs, handle staffing assignments, and act as a liaison between patients and physicians or case management when necessary.

 

**JOB** **FUNCTIONS**

Clinical Practice:

* Uses the nursing process to provide safe, quality patient care and document accordingly.
* Works to ensure his/her compliance with all NMHS policies and requirements as directed by the Nurse Manager and Educator.

Education:

* Provides patient/family education and acts as a resource for existing staff and new employees.
* Attends the Preceptor class to ensure proper training of new employees.

Communication:

* Maintains communication with multidisciplinary team members to provide holistic care to the patient.
* Leads daily huddles on each unit to ensure proper assignments and identify team members for the shift.
* Delegates tasked to be completed during the shift to ensure EOC guidelines are maintained on a daily basis for regulatory agency compliance.

Customer Relations:

* Projects caring, friendly and helpful image to patients and other customers.
* Utilized the patient’s communication board (white board) to identify name, date, goals, other staff and procedures or test for the day to keep the patients and families informed.
* Complies by the NMHS behavioral standards.
* Ensures staff RN’s are utilizing the communication boards.

Self-Development:

* Maintains competency by staying informed of changing trends in the nursing practice.
* Attends annual review and unit specifics within the department.
* Performs required continuing education hours online and in classroom.

Regulatory Knowledge:

* Complies with regulatory and accrediting agency requirements.
* Licensed by the board of Nursing for the state.


 

 

 

**QUALIFICATIONS**

 

 **Education**

 

 

**Education Level**

**Education Details**

**Required/Preferred**

 

 

Associate's Degree

Nursing

Required


 

 


**Licenses and Certifications**
 

 

 

 

**Licenses and Certifications**

**Licenses and Certifications Details**

**Time Frame**

**Required/**
**Preferred**

 

 

RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure

Must be licensed to practice as a RN

Upon Hire

Required

And

 

CPR - Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation

Must maintain a current AHA or ARC CPR Certification

Upon Hire

Required

And

 

ACLS

Advance Cardiac Life Support

Upon Hire

Required

And

 

PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Requirement is dependent upon hiring department

Upon Hire

Required

And

 

 

TB certification

Upon Hire

Required

Or

 

 

Certification if required by the department

Upon Hire

Required

 


**Work Experience**

 

 

 

**Number of Years**

**Work Experience Details**

**Required/**
**Preferred**

 

 

 

 

 


**Knowledge Skills and Abilities**
 

 

 

 

**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**

**Required/Preferred**

**Proficiency**

Must complete RN orientation and approved unit specific checklist

Required

N/A

Must maintain department requirements for continuing education and any specific unit requirements to provide appropriate age specific care; annual review and unit specifics, CARES

Required

N/A

Must have leadership skill and attend leadership classes as offered by the education department.

Required

N/A

Lead and participate in the Performance Improvement project of the unit.

Required

N/A

Must have effective communication and teaching skills

Required

N/A

General knowledge of various regulatory and accrediting standards

Required

N/A

Ensures staffing ratios are appropriate throughout the shift based on unit based matrix while maintaining appropriate productivity.

Required

N/A

Prioritizes/delegates/evaluates work assignments

Required

N/A

Anticipates resources needed to provide the best quality of care for the patients

Required

N/A

Assimilates data and reports appropriately to providers when necessary. Implements protocols when necessary by using critical thinking skills.

Required

N/A

Upon completion of the preceptor class, orients new employees to the unit and reports progress to the nurse manager and/or educator.

Required

N/A

The charge nurse has routine contact with physicians, ancillary personnel, other nursing personnel, patients, family, visitors.

Required

N/A

They must demonstrate effective interpersonal skills to all customers/co-workers, and in all aspects of patient care and job performance.

Required

N/A

He/she will use our NMHS CARES values and behavioral standards in all personal contact situations.

Required

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



**SCOPE**
**Freedom To Act:**
**Problem Solving:**
**Impact:**
**Financial Responsibility:**

* Sales Revenue Target Responsibility: 
* Approval Responsibility:
* P & L Responsibility:
* Assets Controlled:
* Controllable Expenses (e.g., Payroll and other budgeted items):
* Total Financial Responsibility:

**Budget Responsibility**

* Primary Budget Responsibility:
* Shared Budget Responsibility: