What are the responsibilities and job description for the RN Lead Endocrinology position at Advocate Health?
Major Responsibilities:
Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:
Education Required:
Experience Required:
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.
- Oversees the day-to-day provision of patient care including staff, workflow, equipment and supplies. Assists supervisor in evaluating and adjusting care and services provided by clinical and clinical support staff. Acts as an expert clinical and department resource and provides guidance on more complex issues. May provide work direction to other staff and/or assist with patient care flow and the provision of services.
- Assists with human resource responsibilities, which may include; interviewing and selection of new employees, orientation, staff development, providing performance feedback, resolution of employee concerns, and employee morale. Monitors employee assignments; maintains staff scheduling, evaluates staffing levels and makes adjustments as necessary to maintain productivity level established for assigned area(s).
- Works to promote and implement care management and quality initiatives. Assists in establishing quality standards for department. Monitors and evaluates care delivery provided and takes action to correct problems appropriately.
- Maintains current knowledge of applicable policies, procedures and regulatory, compliance and scope of practice guidelines; assists in ensuring staff compliance. Promotes and upholds safety standards for patients, visitors and staff.
- Provides ongoing care (assess, plan, intervention, and evaluation), according to the age specific and developmental needs of the patient. Assesses educational needs and provides teaching and counseling to the patient and their family. Integrates health promotion and preventive aspects of care. Assumes primary responsibility for caseloads consisting of patients in specialty area.
- Anticipates and recognizes changes in a patient's status and need for care. Determines priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs. Provides ongoing assessment of patient's response to services and teaching and applies interventions as appropriate. Updates and revises care plan as needed. Communicates with physicians to confirm, correlate, and update patient's plan of care. Provides status update to physician on a regular basis.
- Maintains and updates accurate clinical and patient records according to agency, state, and federal guidelines.
- Provides telephone consultation/triage to patient, family, and/or significant others according to protocol and established guidelines.
- Participates in community education programs and continuous quality improvement activities.
- Continually strives to advance knowledge and practice of clinical skills in specialty area including certification as warranted.
- Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures. Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards.
Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:
- Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices, and
- Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providerscertification issued by the American Heart Association (AHA).
Education Required:
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.
Experience Required:
- Typically requires 5 years of experience in acute care nursing that includes experiences in an applicable clinical specialty (such as: cardiology, urology or orthopedics), and acting as a nursing resource.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills; ability to develop rapport and maintain positive, professional relationships with a variety of patients, staff and physicians.
- Ability to work independently and make sound judgments.
- Ability to multi-task with frequent interruptions.
- Demonstrated leadership skills including problem solving, delegation, organization, prioritization and building team rapport.
- Proficient computer skills including keyboarding, navigation within a windows operating system, use of electronic mail and electronic medical records systems.
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
- Must sit, stand, walk, lift, squat, bend, twist, crawl, kneel, climb, and reach above shoulders throughout the workday.
- Must be able to:
- lift up to 50 lbs from floor to waist.
- lift up to 20 lbs over the head.
- carry up to 40 lbs a reasonable distance.
- push/pull with 30 lbs of force.
- perform a sliding transfer of 150 lbs with a second person present.
- May be exposed to chemical and hazardous waste as well as blood and body fluids and communicable disease. Therefore, protective clothing and equipment must be worn as necessary.
- Must have functional speech, vision, hearing, and touch with ability to use fine hand manipulation skills for IV insertion and other procedures/functions.
- Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job.
This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.
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