Great Falls, Montana
Corpus Christi, Texas
Durham, North Carolina
Los Angeles, California
Posted: 16-Jun-24
Location: Brownsville, Texas
Salary: Open
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Internal Number: 511982
$20,000 Sign-on Bonus!
About Us
Cornerstone Healthcare Group, based in Dallas, Texas, was founded in 1990 and provides excellent healthcare services to our patients, residents and their families.
Our employees make a difference, join us so you can too! We pride ourselves on our quality of care, responsive service, and commitment to excellence. We treat each employee, patient and resident like we would a member of our own family, and measure our success by the direct impact we have on improving the quality of life for our employees, patients and residents.
Responsibilities:
The Charge Nurse RN is responsible for the delivery of patient care that promotes safety and well-being of all patients ranging in age from 18 years to geriatric experiencing medically complex conditions, general medical-surgical conditions, with rehabilitation and/or wound care needs
The Charge Nurse RN duties include:
- Coordinating with any agencies providing contract nursing services with the Director.
- Acts as the liaison between the clinical nursing staff and administration.
- Provides clinical support to the nursing staff by acting as a mentor and a roll model.
- Collaborates with hospital leaders, physicians and other team members to provide optimum services to the patients.
- Plays a major roll in employee and patient education to enhance knowledge, skills and necessary behaviors to achieve quality outcomes.
- Adopts an approach to hospital-wide performance improvement that ensures important processes and activities are measured, assessed, and improved.
- Plans, directs, coordinates and evaluates all intradepartmental and interdepartmental activities.
- Is the designated on-site hospital administrator for after normal business hours.
- Responsible for the assessment of all requests for administrative on-call contacts during his/her shift.
- Responsible for all activities within the hospital in absence of the Administrator or department managers.
- Responsible for providing a safe and effective environment for customer satisfaction, including physicians, employees, patients and families.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Ability to project a professional image.
- Working knowledge and ability to apply professional standards of practice in job situations.
- Sound knowledge of nursing practice.
- Knowledge of regulatory standards and compliance requirements.
- Strong organizational and analytical skills. Exceptional leadership abilities.
- Working knowledge of personal computer and software applications used in job functions (Word processing, graphics, databases, spreadsheets, etc.)
- Persons who have been found guilty by a court of law of abusing, neglecting, or mistreating individuals in a health care related setting are ineligible for employment in this position.
- Freedom from illegal use of drugs.
- Freedom from use of and effects of use of drugs and alcohol in the workplace.
Education and/or Experience:
- Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
- Five (5) years progressive acute care or long term acute care nursing experience in critical care, emergency room or step-down/telemetry unites.
- Requires a minimum of three (3) years supervision or charge nurse experience.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
- Current license as a Registered Nurse in the state of employment.
- Must maintain current CPR certification and ACLS certification throughout employment.
- ACLS certification obtained within one year of employment or as available courses allow.