RNChargeICU

**Job Description:** Working with the department manager, the RN Charge Nurse provides leadership and clinical expertise on their respective shift and department. They coordinate unit resources to ensure appropriate staffing levels based on the unique needs of patients on the unit, both clinically and financially. They function as clinical support for staff and are a role model of competency and professionalism. **Essential Functions** * Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative and developmental skills as appropriate). * Seeks and evaluates information acquired from other members of interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, others. * Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care. Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop plan of care including needed education. * Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes are met (i.e., teaching, referrals, and follow-up). * Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration. Provides or delegates care consistent with plan of care, guidelines of care, and professional licensure provisions. * Demonstrates the ability to set priorities and to coordinate and organize patient care delivery through managing time, supplies, and resources. * Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, and patient and family satisfaction. Revises plan of care as indicated and reassesses changes as appropriate. * Demonstrates professional behavior. Ensures staff accountability to the same standards. Encourages nursing professionalism by coaching and developing others. * Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice, complies with regulatory standards, practices within sco