Unit Lead RN - Neonatal Intensive Care FT Nights

Core Competencies

• Evaluates current practices, promotes evidenced based practice to achieve patient outcomes
  
  
• Utilizes experience, in-depth knowledge and an intuitive grasp of patient's condition to effectively focus on the most significant patient problems
  
  
• Identifies staff competencies, educational needs and readiness to learn
  
  
• Provides ongoing clinical support and supervision
  
  
• Provides staff with guidance in developing the patient's plan of care
  
  
• Provides in the moment coaching and modeling of effective problem solving, conflict resolution, communication and team building skills and maintain a harmonious and collaborative atmosphere on the unit
  
  
• Ensures that floats, travelers, registry staff and volunteers are oriented to the unit
  
  
• Consistently keeps current on clinical, unit, department and medical center changes; shares information and coaches staff members about their responsibility to be well informed
  
  
• Completes an initial unit assessment at the beginning of the shift
  
  
• Makes formal rounds to include patient assessment as needed, serving as an intermediary to staff for specific patient care issues
  
  
• Ensures a safe environment for staff and patients
  
  
• Ensures and matches staff competencies to patient needs
  
  
• Identifies and documents subtle changes in the patient's condition
  
  
• Interprets policy, procedures, guidelines and standards and assists compliance by staff
  
  
• Provides and receives report on unit status while collaborating with healthcare team and sets priorities for patient transfer along the continuum
  
  
• Utilizes experience and in-depth knowledge to effectively modify and document changes in nursing care and/or the plan of care to address patient care problems
  
  
• Reviews documentation as needed throughout the shift and provides in the moment follow up
  
  
• Ensures and facilitates staff's prompt patient call light response and response to patient needs as appropriate
  
  
• Creates a welcoming environment for the patient's family and other interdisciplinary team members
  
  
• Demonstrates enthusiasm and commitment to the organizational mission and goals
  
  

Department Specific Competencies

• Utilizes professional, respectful, effective communication to delegate and direct unit activities and patient assignments
  
  
• Ensures optimal customer service/patient experience by role modeling excellent customer service
  
  
• Utilizes lead rounding to communicate with patients and families to enhance the patient experience
  
  
• Meets with patient and family regarding feedback and follows up on their issues using effective service recovery techniques
  
  
• Initiates, directs, assigns, and coordinates duties to be performed by staff responding to drills, emergencies, or disasters
  
  
• Utilizes chain of command to report adverse clinical outcomes, patient perception and disruptive behaviors
  
  
• Models compassion, understanding, problem solving and conflict resolution skills in coaching and mentoring staff to assist patients and families having difficulty coping with their illness and/or hospitalization and maintains good public relations
  
  
• Ensures staff observance of the National Patient Safety Goals.
  
  
• Monitors and ensures compliance with organizational quality dashboard/benchmarking goals.
  
  
• Participates with unit manager and other unit members in developing action plans to achieve identified performance improvement objectives: implementation of patient safety goals and research protocols/evidence based practice, cost reduction/control, improving quality of care, efficient and timely patient throughput and improving the patient experience.
  
  
• Assesses ongoing unit and patient needs.
  
  
• Oversees coordination, communication and facilitation of the patient plan of care in a timely manner, while involving the physicians, staff and other healthcare team members
  
  
• Identifies trends in unit quality of care issues and reports to unit manager and clinical nurse specialist/educator
  
  
• Follows up and provides ongoing feedback on staff performance and provides feedback to the unit manager.
  
  
• Attends the huddle meetings as appropriate.
  
  
• Develops a plan with the unit manager and/or the nurse staffing office to meet unit staffing needs
  
  
• Determines unit priorities for shift with regard to patient care, patient flow, staffing and distribution. Makes patient care assignment based on patient needs/acuity, staff competencies, skill mix and staffing matrix. Facilitates staff breaks.
  
  
• Assists with the management of efficiencies of unit activities to meet established productivity standards Serves as liaison between other nursing departments to expedite admissions/transfers; receives report and facilitates transition Accommodates admissions and transfers to full bed capacity with minimum delay; notifies Unit Manager of potential resource issues
  
  
• Takes a patient assignment as needed and provides meal and break relief coverage.
  
  

Education

Experience

License / Certification Requirements

Compensation Range:

$68.52- $88.02/ Hour