Overnight House Charge (RN)

Essential Job Duties

• Able to assess, plan, intervene, teach, discharge and document on patients and families appropriately based on diagnostic, cultural and developmental issues.
• Able to be a role model and teach staff to provide the same continuum of care.
• Continually floats in the building monitoring units and hospital floors.
• Serves as resource to other staff and treatment team.
• Effectively interprets and clarifies policies and procedures for unit based staff.
• Exercises sound judgment in decision making.
• Effectively monitors and assures proper and adequate staffing during shift by referring to unit acuity to review if changes are needed.
• Provides direction to staffing coordinator by determining coverage of sick leaves, rearranging existing staffing to provide efficient and effective coverage, places staff on on-call status, or mandates overtime, if needed.
• Assures nursing staff get appropriate breaks.
• Assists in unit coverage as needed.
• Effectively identifies, intervenes and addresses all performance issues, seeks input from, and updates the Human Resources Director.
• Plans, develops, implements, administers, assesses, and maintains departmental objectives, goals and operations.
• Assists the Director of Nursing with the coordination of daily operations.
• Monitors and ensures that on-call psychiatrists and physicians accurately reflect patient’s needs and any lab, tests, or other documents which need to be reviewed.
• Follows up on patients status and progress and addresses any concerns with appropriate personnel.
• Responds in a timely manner to any medical, psychiatric and environmental emergencies.
• Provides leadership in such situations.
• Follows up collaboratively with appropriate personnel on maintenance issues, dietary issues, laundry issues, security issues, general administrative issues and receives assistance as needed.
• Provides coverage for Needs Assessment with ability to cover call center, do a physical assessment/triage or psychiatric assessment.
• Knowledge of involuntary hold process and is able to complete the process for assessment, documentation and application for emergency hold.
• Performs quality management monitoring by performing assigned audits, education, mentoring as directed by Nursing Administration.
• Will follow up in a timely manner on the completion of occurrence reports and PIP data collection and communication.
• Specific to Night Shift Staff: Effectively audits the medical records to monitor timeliness and thoroughness of the medical record documentation in accordance with regulatory standards.
• Alerts relevant staff / supervisor of any discrepancies.
• This position will have access to patient records necessary for treatment and provision of care of assigned patients.
• Employee must maintain confidentiality and abide by HIPAA guidelines.
• In order to meet the essential functions of this position, employees must work as scheduled.
• All staff at Prairie St. John’s may be required to work in different areas/units and varying shifts depending on the business needs to the facility.
• Performs other duties as assigned or as requested.