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Skills
Administrative Skillsunmatched
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)unmatched
Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)unmatched
Benchmarkingunmatched
Budgetingunmatched
Clinical Medicineunmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
Documentationunmatched
Federal Laws and Regulationsunmatched
Health Planunmatched
Healthcareunmatched
Healthcare Qualityunmatched
Infection Controlunmatched
Interwovenunmatched
Leadershipunmatched
Maintain Complianceunmatched
Medication Administrationunmatched
Nursingunmatched
Patient Assessmentunmatched
Patient Careunmatched
Patient Educationunmatched
Patient Historyunmatched
Patient Safetyunmatched
Quality Metricsunmatched
Quality of Careunmatched
Registered Nurse (RN)unmatched
Regulatory Complianceunmatched
Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
Safety Complianceunmatched
Staff Developmentunmatched
State Laws and Regulationsunmatched
Description
Description
The Unit Lead Nurse is responsible for assisting with clinical management and assisting with the administrative coordination of the nursing unit. The position is a combination of clinical (direct care) and assisting with administrative unit responsibilities to ensure effective delivery of evidenced based clinical patient care. Assists with ensuring compliance with administrative and clinical policies and procedures. The key components of the Quality-Caring Model (QCM) are interwoven throughout the delivery of care within nursing and nurses are expected to utilize the QCM and a framework for providing excellent nursing care to their patients, developing collegial relationships with the healthcare team, and implementing self-care and self reflective behaviors to restore balance to ones' self.
Core Competencies
Adheres to infection prevention guidelines
Adheres to policies, procedures, and standards of practice to deliver safe and optimal care
Assesses patient history, physiological, and psychosocial status
Communicates with the patient, family, medical staff and others during the continuum of care
Complies with Joint Commission’s national patient safety goals
Complies with organizational quality dashboard/benchmarking goals
Interprets common variables affecting patient care and follows reporting process
Maintains regulatory compliance consistent with quality standards and ethical obligations of the profession
Participates in activities in alignment with the Magnet Model
Participates in organizational activities
Participates in Peer Review
Participates in professional development activities
Performs as a preceptor in an active and engaged manner
Provides age-specific individualized care that supports protection from harm and complies with patient safety centered interventions/bundles
Provides patient and family education throughout the care of patient
Uses critical thinking to formulate and carry out a care plan according to patient needs
Utilizes resources in an economical manner
Utilizes safe administration of medications
Utilizes Safe Patient Handling
Department Specific Competencies
Meets with patient and family regarding feedback and follows up on their issues; Implements planned service recovery strategies, if indicated, appropriately documenting the incident and informing appropriate departments
Ensures a daily culture geared toward providing an excellent patient experience
Demonstrates the values of the organization in daily actions and communication as evidenced by peer evaluation, meeting targeted Employee Satisfaction scores, and meeting targeted NDNQI survey scores
Supports the annual budget for the individual unit by meeting established productivity standards through appropriate flexing when needed, maintaining staffing matrix guidelines and unit specific ratios.
Assists in the promotion of professional growth and development of the staff
Functions as the clinical expert and resource, directing patient care activities on the unit, as evidenced by attendance at mandatory leadership classes, courses and inservices.
Assists with ensuring clinical quality of care and the integration of the quality caring model in clinical services on the unit as evidenced by meeting targeted quality indicator outcomes, targeted patient satisfaction scores and targeted benchmarks for unit dashboard
Works effectively with other units, departments and physicians to support the organizational goals as evidenced by State and Federal regulatory surveys, accreditation and certification findings related to specific area of responsibility