Charge Nurse Emergency Services

Overview:

CHI Mercy Health offers the unique opportunity to grow professionally in a supportive highly rewarding work environment and to satisfy your soul in the surroundings of a breathtakingly beautiful natural setting. More than 100 years after the founding of our organization the core values - Compassion Inclusion Integrity Excellence and Collaboration - that guide our interactions with our patients and each other remain the same. In the welcoming embrace of these nurturing communities you will feel immediately at home. 

Roseburg is located on Interstate 5 in Southern Oregon's scenic Douglas County. The community is nestled in a lush forested region known as the 100 Valleys of the Umpqua. In many places you’ll find it hard to maintain a healthy work-life/personal-life balance because the pace of one is indistinguishable from the other. Not here. Life never stops here but it slows to an easy welcome pace. A traffic jam means you missed the yellow and have to wait for the next green. A terrible parking space is the one across from the restaurant instead of in front of it. And the three words you may never hear are “Wow that’s expensive.” Easy is the best way to describe life here. Hard-to-beat works too.

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Responsibilities:

As an Emergency Department Charge Nurse you will work collaboratively with the leadership team, the department staff, physicians and interdisciplinary and ancillary staff to support day-to-day operations and patient care.

Essential Duties:

• Coordinates with other charge nurses, unit coordinators and nurse coordinator to facilitate patient flow within the hospital.

• Makes appropriate staffing decisions that match assessed patient needs with nurse competencies.

• Follows department staffing matrix based on acuity, activity and skill mix and communicates with department leadership and/or nursing coordinator to develop a contingency plan. Takes patients as needed.

• Facilitates staff breaks and lunches.

• Assesses productivity every four (4) hours within shift, anticipates changes and manages staff appropriately to maintain productivity and safety. Justifies variances when safety outweighs productivity.

• Recognizes gaps in experience in various levels of acuity and works with unit leadership to train and mentor staff.

• Performs weekly narcotic inventory. Reports discrepancies to unit leadership.

• Able to function in all roles in the unit and acts as a backup and resource for staff.

• Acts as a super user for IT systems used in the unit.

Shift: 6:45pm - 7:15am

Core Schedule: Week 1 Sun, Mon, Tue; Week 2 Thu, Fri, Sat

This position requires on call with a 30 minute response time.

Qualifications:

License/Certifications:

• State of Oregon RN License

• American Heart Association BLS for Health Care Providers

• ACLS

• PALS within 6 months of hire preferred at hire

• TNCC within 1 year of hire preferred at hire

• Specialty certification upon hire preferred (example: CCRN, PCCN, CEN, RNC).

Experience:

• Two (2) years’ current Emergency Department Experience

• Previous designated Charge Nurse experience in related specialty preferred

Education:

• Associates Degree in Nursing

• BSN preferred

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