Description

Description:

Job Summary:

Functions as a Lead of the healthcare team, coordinates departmental operations that ensure quality patient care in a safe, healing environment that is patient and family centered. Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice. Has appropriate clinical skills to be an expert resource. Is available and supportive to employees and understands priorities/needs of the department. Is a staff role model for professional nursing practice. May recommend to management in efficient resource allocation by assuring appropriate patient assignments, staffing, and scheduling. Demonstrates performance consistent with the strategic plan of the organization and the KP nursing mission and values.

Essential Responsibilities:

• The Charge Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
• Leadership:
• Directs reviews, assigns & organizes the work of at least three (3) or more employees, of which at least one (1) must be another Registered Nurse.
• Applies the KP Nursing mission, vision, values & behaviors in daily practice. Understands needs & sets priorities for the department.
• Provides professional leadership & direction of department personnel in order to maintain efficient delivery of effective patient care.
• Coordinates departmental operations & delegates tasks appropriately. Is an excellent staff role model for professional nursing practice (e.g. RN/MD Collaborating for Outcomes, Just Culture, Quality, Service, Safety). Supports & enhances the leadership skills of the staff RNs, LVNs &UAs/CNAs (and other ancillary staff as appropriate).
• Upholds compliance with Kaiser Permanentes Policies & Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, applicable state & federal laws & regulations, & accreditation &licensure requirements.
• Upholds the standards of the California Nurse Practice Act, American Nurses Association
• (ANA) Standards of Nursing Practice, & ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses.
• Champions new ideas; Actively collaborates with others through the change process.
• Acts as a resource, preceptor & mentor to new employees, registry, students, & other team members in department specific operations & patient care activities.
• Collaborates with or refers to manager/clinical nurse specialist/educator any outstanding issues or concerns on the unit. Demonstrates ability to identify & resolve problems in collaboration with work team & with other departments.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, & standards of practice.
• Participates in activities related to patient flow, including admission & discharge rocesses. Facilitates inter-professional/interdisciplinary communication & collaboration.
• Nursing Process:
• Serves as a resource for clinical concerns, scope of practice & applicable state &federal regulations as well as operational concerns of providers and staff. Possesses experience & skills to be a resource for providers, RNs, LVNs, USs/CNAs, (& other ancillary staff as appropriate).
• Demonstrates flexibility in work schedule to meet the department demos of the day; facilitates & relieves staff breaks.
• Actively involved in assigning, orienting, & precepting & coaching staff as needed.
• Documentation:
• Conducts audits & ensures that documentation reflects thorough assessments, incorporates physical & psychosocial findings, diagnostic tests, learning needs, barriers, multidisciplinary education plans & age appropriate care.
• Clinical Outcomes:
• Participates/leads various aspects of department operations, staff competencies, department committees, Unit Based Teams (UBTs), new projects, quality efforts, & educational programs.
• Demonstrates knowledge of patients specific conditions commonly seen in the department & care required. Interfaces with leadership, peers, physicians, other healthcare providers, & support staff regarding performance, as necessary.
• Actively participates, champions & motivates other staff in quality improvement in patient care, workflow, & improvement in clinical initiatives and working conditions of the department. Provides input on employees performance evaluations through daily observation & monitoring of performance.
• Adjusts staffing needs of the department to assure quality patient care, patient & staff safety, efficiency, productivity & working conditions of providers & staff. Actively models Labor-Management Partnership (LMP) Workplace Safety principles and practices.
• Patient Care Experience/Customer Service:
• Acts as a role model for staff regarding providing a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
• Ensures timely & appropriate management of patients.
• Coordinates smooth transition for patients across the care continuum. Participates in daily leadership rounds, documents rounding activities on unit rounding logs (as appropriate.). Assures hourly rounds are conducted by staff. Where appropriate, assures hourly rounds are documented according to unit/facility policy or guidelines.
• Team Commitment:
• Ensures support of the collaborative LMP environment through unit based teams (UBTs). Identifies & supports staff professional/clinical development needs (i.e. certification, presentations, reward/recognition).
• Motivates staff to attain their fullest potential in improving performance, attendance,
• access, service & quality outcomes. Lead/facilitate daily/shift multidisciplinary huddles. Assures huddle messages are consistently communicated. Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively & seeks appropriate assistance.
• Fiscal Responsibility:
• Participates in resource allocation (assignments, scheduling, staffing, equipment/supplies
• management). Collaborates & assists with leadership, physicians, & peers in staffing, workflow & throughput to promote quality patient care, patient & staff safety, efficiency, productivity & working conditions of providers & staff.
• Professional Development:
• Attends Charge Nurse Educational programs. Takes responsibility for professional growth and development.

Basic Qualifications:

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  1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in ED, or successful completion of a KP ED training program or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.
  
  
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  Registered Nurse License (California)
  
  

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  Pediatric Advanced Life Support
  
  

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  Basic Life Support
  
  

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support
  

Notes:

• Every Other Weekend
• If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 6:00 pm-6:30 am, back up 8-hour shift will be 10:00 pm to 6:30 am.

Primary Location: California,Los Angeles,West Los Angeles Medical Center
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Night
Workdays: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Working Hours Start: 06:00 PM
Working Hours End: 06:30 AM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard Worker Location: Onsite
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: B13|AFSCME|UNAC
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: West LA Medical Center - Emergency Room Charge-Night - 0806
Pay Range: $60.05 - $77.33 / hour Travel: No On-site: Work location is on-site (KP designated office, medical office building or hospital). Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.

For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.

Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.

Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.

Requisition #: 1388889

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