Charge Nurse - Surgical Unit, Dayshift
Good Samaritan
Summary
Shared governance is a professional structural model, founded on the cornerstone principles of partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership that form a culturally sensitive and empowering framework, enabling sustainable and accountability-based decisions to support an interdisciplinary design for excellent patient care.
Job description
Job Summary
Shared governance is a professional structural model, founded on the cornerstone principles of partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership that form a culturally sensitive and empowering framework, enabling sustainable and accountability-based decisions to support an interdisciplinary design for excellent patient care.
Standards of Care
- Assessment: Medical-surgical nurses collect client health data.
- Diagnosis: Medical-surgical nurses analyze the assessment data in determining diagnosis.
- Outcome Identification: Medical-surgical nurses identify expected outcomes unique to the client.
- Planning: Medical-surgical nurses develop a plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
- Implementation: Medical-surgical nurses implement the interventions identified in the plan of care.
- Evaluation: Medical-surgical nurses evaluate the client's progress toward attainment of outcomes.
Essential Job Duties
- Quality Care: The Medical-surgical nurse systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
- Performance Appraisal: Medical-surgical nurses evaluate their own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards, statutes, and regulations.
- Education: Medical-surgical nurses acquire and maintain current knowledge in nursing practice. Medical-surgical nurses pursue knowledge to enhance nursing expertise and advance the profession.
- Collegiality: Medical-surgical nurses interact with, and contribute to, the professional development of peers and other health care providers as colleagues.
- Ethics: Medical-surgical nurses deliver care in a nonjudgmental, nondiscriminatory, sensitive, and culturally competent manner.
- Collaboration: Medical-surgical nurses collaborate with the client, family members, significant others, and health care providers in providing care.
- Research: Medical-surgical nurses use research findings in practice.
- Resource Utilization: Medical-surgical nurses use research findings in practice.
- Communication: Medical-surgical nurses communicate effectively with clients, families, and other health care professionals.
- Leadership: Medical-surgical nurses use leadership skills to enhance client outcomes and foster a healthy work environment within the practice setting and profession.
Secondary Job Duties That May be Reassigned
- Monitor resources to maintain unit staffing standards and promote world class levels of patient satisfaction and outcomes.
- Collaborates with the team to support a healthy work environment.
- Assists with and/or facilitates resolution or management of customer issues/concerns/comments.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree in Nursing effective January 2017 (with the exception of staff previously granted grandfather status).
- Registered Nurse license from the Indiana State Board of Nursing.
- One year of nursing experience; specialty certification preferred.
- Required to maintain current BLS. Specific departments may also require current ACLS or PALS.
Benefits
- Healthcare plans
- Retirement plans
- Flexible work schedules
- Tuition reimbursement
- Fitness center access
- Career advancement opportunities
Company overview
Good Samaritan is a network of community hospitals and healthcare facilities that have been serving patients across multiple regions in the United States for over a century. These healthcare institutions are known for providing comprehensive medical services with a strong focus on compassionate, patient-centered care. The Good Samaritan hospitals typically operate as acute care facilities offering specialized services including cardiology, orthopedics, trauma care, oncology, women's health, and emergency medicine. Many locations feature advanced medical technology and specialized centers of excellence, such as comprehensive stroke centers, Level II and III trauma centers, and specialized surgical facilities. These hospitals are deeply integrated into their local communities, often serving as regional healthcare hubs that provide accessible medical care to diverse populations. With employee counts typically ranging from 1,000 to 5,000 staff members across various locations, Good Samaritan facilities maintain a commitment to clinical excellence, professional development, and community health improvement. The organization emphasizes values of patient respect, integrity, dignity, and excellence in all aspects of healthcare delivery.