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FROEDTERT HEALTH INC. Charge Nurse Cardiac Progressive Care in MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin

JOB REQUIREMENTS: 3West Cardiac Progressive Care 3WEST is a 50 bed Cardiac Progressive Care Unit that sees a multitude of complex patients, including Medicine Progressive Care and other MedSurg patients. Many of our patients require advanced monitoring, or an elevated level of care. RN\'s obtain specialized skills to care for this population including being ACLS trained within 1 year of RN hire. Specialties often cared for on 3WEST include, cardiothoracic surgery, electrophysiology, advanced heart failure, lung/heart transplant, trans-venous pacing, mechanical circulatory support, and DKA management, as well as patients with increased oxygen needs. 3WEST is a great place to learn while achieving an elevated scope of practice outside of the ICU setting. Discover. Achieve. Succeed. #BeHere Location: US:WI:MILWAUKEE at our FROEDTERT HOSPITAL facility. This job is ON - SITE. FTE: 0.900000 Shift: Shift 3 Schedule: 3/36 = 12 hour shifts Job Summary: The Charge Nurse is a Registered Nurse with unit lead responsibilities for patient flow and adjustment of unit staffing to meet the dynamic needs of the patients. The Charge Nurse will use the nursing process to make ongoing evaluations of patients\' acuity, assessments of the staff nurses workload, and anticipate fluctuations in admissions, discharges and transfers. The facilitation of patient flow includes triaging and prioritizing admissions and overseeing the care coordination of patients being discharged/transferred. Daily nurse staffing includes employing effective decision-making behaviors that are used to safely balance changes in patient acuity and census with the availability, experience and competency of the staff nurses, to ensure safe and adequate staffing for all shifts. The Charge Nurse will demonstrate resourcefulness, tactful communication, flexibility, adaptability, decisiveness and awareness of the global needs of the hospital. The Charge Nurse will be a clinical leader and resource on the unit, collaborating with the interdisciplinary team to facilitate patient care stay progression and unit goals. The Charge Nurse will assume a patient assignment as determined by the needs of the unit. As appropriate and/or delegated by the Nurse Manager, the Charge Nurse monitors and intervenes in addressing opportunities for assuring regulatory compliance, quality effectiveness and a satisfactory patient experience. When working as a clinical Staff RN the Charge Nurse is a... For full info follow application link. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer who values and maintains an environment that attracts, recruits, engages and retains a diverse workforce. As a federal contractor/subcontractor, we take affirmative action in employment based on race, sex, disability and status as a protected veteran. We welcome protected veterans to share their priority consideration status with us at 262-439-1961. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: ipc.us/t/9F88D6B7B37D440B

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