The Oncology Charge Nurse fosters an environment for managing and delivering safe patient care in a hospital setting. The role model and coach to department personnel and assists in developing their skills and knowledge. Provides nursing care to a diverse patient population and role models compassionate communication with physicians and the interprofessional health care team.
Requirements
- Fosters staff engagement by listening actively, requesting and acknowledging feedback, making equitable decisions, providing appropriate rationale, and supporting organizational goals.
- Anticipates the needs of the staff members and proactively offers assistance.
- Role models interprofessional communication, which includes active listening and teaching, and assists with staff stress management as needed.
- Improves departmental scores for turnover/retention on unit-based scorecard.
- Role models fair and consistent leadership skills for effective team dynamics and teambuilding strategies through problem-solving, coaching, and developing staff.
- Coaches staff to use efficient and effective communication to establish and maintain a team environment and to include the patient and family in the team regarding their care plan.
- Provides input into staff performance reviews.
- Functions as a mentor and resource to unit staff and provides oversight for students/new employees/preceptorships.
- Identifies levels of organizational conflict and applies tools to effectively resolve concerns, complaints, or disputes with patients, families, physicians, and other interprofessional healthcare team members.
- Leads patient and family-centered care standards.
- Mentor others regarding specialty populations; audit plan of care.
- Practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
- Maintains ongoing interactions with patients, families, and staff on improving patient care through leader rounding.
- Ensures effective collaboration with other departments regarding patient process issues.
- Drives department service standards and activities to improve department scores for patient satisfaction on unit-based scorecards.
- Models the standards of care related to the nursing process by actively participating in meeting and improving nurse-sensitive quality indicators and patient safety goals.
- Participates in creating a continuous improvement environment.
- Coordinates nursing care throughout the shift schedule, considering patient acuity, staff skill level, and safety to ensure our duty to our patients can be met.
- Models the standards related to regulatory requirements and professional practice.
- Facilitates seamless patient flow to/from/through the department, leading the delivery of quality family-centered care throughout the continuum of care.
- Ensures the patient care plan is accurate and timely, coaching staff if documentation deficiencies are identified.
- Works closely with the OAs and bed management regarding timely patient placement.
- Proactively recognizes and determines a plan of action and responds to situations, such as rapid response/CERTs and emergency codes.
- Participates in initiatives to improve quality and safety scores on the unit and hospital scorecards through peer-to-peer accountability, reporting near misses, and identifying solutions by collaborating with the interprofessional team.
- Role models situational awareness, using teachable moments to improve safety. Assists with audits.
- Implements department strategies to achieve financial targets on unit-based scorecards.
- Metrics include documentation of care and length of stay while optimizing efficiency and resources, such as overtime.
- Attends daily care coordination rounds to facilitate patient progression.
- Ensures that follow-up has been implemented on any concerns or issues the team identifies.
- Manages productivity by the staffing grid. Provides input into unit resource utilization, including unit capital and operational budget needs.
- Oversees shift-by-shift resource utilization.
- Manages to identify and implement innovative solutions for practice changes to improve patient care or unit operations, such as reducing hospital readmissions or other department-specific measures by leading and participating in unit projects and shared governance activities.
- Investigate and incorporate evidence-based practices that are presented to shared governance and leadership.
- Supports change initiatives and adapts to unexpected changes.
- Expands individual nursing knowledge and coaches staff to grow knowledge, abilities, and skills.
- Serves as a clinical resource.
- Develops and disseminates, as appropriate, informational/educational resources and programs designed to improve quality and professional practice.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
