Charge Nurse jobs in Palmer, AK

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The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is a non-profit Tribal health organization designed to meet the unique health needs of Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Alaska. In partnership with the more than 171,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people that we serve and the Tribal health organizations of the Alaska Tribal Health System, ANTHC provides world-class health services, which include comprehensive medical services at the Alaska Native Medical Center, wellness programs, disease research and prevention, rural provider training and rural water and sanitation systems construction.

ANTHC is the largest, most comprehensive Tribal health organization in the United States, and Alaska�s second-largest health employer with more than 3,100 employees offering an array of health services to people around the nation�s largest state.

Our vision: Alaska Native people are the healthiest people in the world.

Benefits include:

• Generous Paid Time Off and holiday schedule with 4 weeks paid vacation per year to start and 12 paid holidays.

• More than 19 Federal healthcare plans with plans for employee, employee plus one, and employee plus family available. ANTHC covers 80% of all health insurance premiums and 100% of Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, and AD&D.

• 401(a) retirement plan; ANTHC will contribute 3% of your annual compensation to the plan account each year, with up to an additional 5% match with a 6-year vesting schedule.

• 403(b) retirement savings plan with pre-tax and Roth options. Flexible Spending Accounts for Health Care and Dependent care are also available.

• Onsite Child Care is available in a brand new education facility.
  

• Onsite free gym access. Additional gym, rock climbing wall and salt-water pool available at the Alaska Pacific University for a small fee per semester. Steep discounts on outdoor equipment rentals for your Alaskan adventures!

• Tuition reductions for employees and their eligible dependents at the Alaska Pacific University.

Visit us online at www.anthc.org or contact Recruitment directly at HRRecruiting@anthc.org.

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium has a hiring preference for qualified Alaska Native and American Indian applicants pursuant to P.L. 93-638 Indian Self Determination Act.

Summary: Provides oversight of the activities on a nursing unit during a specific shift including serving as a resource to staff, directing patient flow, precepting or mentoring staff, assuring appropriate utilization of resources, and providing oversight for the provision of quality care in a manner satisfying to patients.

Responsibilities:

• Performs all duties included in the registered nurse job description.
• Evaluates one�s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and relevant statues and regulations, identifying short and long-term professional goals.
• Maintains current knowledge, serves as a resource on departmental policies, procedures and processes, and assists in assuring compliance.
• Assists in finding creative solutions to issues and contributes knowledge to process and quality improvement.
• Utilizes the ANA scope and standards practice and the code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements as the foundation of nursing practice.
• Mentors other in areas such as competency, documentation, equipment use, plan of care, National Patient Safety Goals and participation in in-service education
• Exhibits a general understanding of the process for dealing with ethical dilemmas, understand, and coordinates the process for obtaining an ethics consult.
• Coordinates patient flow on the unit to facility the provision of timely and effective care
• Expedites admission process for ready beds when assigned
• Provides and ensures quality patient care
• Communicates effectively with patients and families to resolve issues and provides service recovery when needed.
• Participates in daily rounds and other patient satisfaction activities.
• Performs routine environment of care rounds and facilitates resolution of issues.
• Assures patient privacy is protected and confidentiality of information is maintained on the unit.
• Participates on a hospital or departmental level committee as requested
• Assists in assuring appropriate utilization of supplies and equipment, maintenance of supply levels and are of equipment and facilities.
• Assures appropriate utilization of staff on unit by preparing staff schedules, overseeing staffing for shift and making patient assignments to meet patient needs in an efficient and cost effective manner
• Regularly attends hospital wide bed meetings Assists with hiring, orientating, precepting, coaching and evaluating staff Evaluates care given by staff
• Coaches to improve care
• Establishes effective work relationships with staff and supports action plans in meeting staff satisfaction goals.
• Understands, articulates, supports and serves as a resource for the components of the nursing bundle. Including observation and coaching of staff.
• Maintains professional, effective and timely communication with physicians, other departments, (fast track) patients and families, staff, EMS partners and community members.
• Provides departmental leadership in the absence of the unit director/manager/supervisor.
• Meets or exceeds productivity standards Assures patient flow is efficient.
• Distributes staff resources to meet patient occupancy
• Role model for teamwork, fills beds, cleans beds, assists others with their assignment, facilitates admissions, recognizes when staff members are overwhelmed and adjusts assignment according; balances assignments, delegates appropriately.
• Assists in providing positive impressions to patients and visitors, promotes a caring and compassionate approach to all interactions.
• Performs all duties included in the registered nurse job description.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Performs all duties included in the registered nurse job description.

Other information:

KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS

• Knowledge of nursing science, principles, techniques, and procedures for the care of patients.
• Knowledge of healthcare terminology, anatomy, physiology and concepts of disease.
• Knowledge and ability to utilize evidence based practice to develop the plan of care and interventions.
• Knowledge of the hospital environment and how the services and functions interact.
• Knowledge of Alaska Native cultures and the Alaska Tribal Health System
• Knowledge of nursing theorists and ability to provide theory based care for patients.
• Knowledge of shared governance environment with shared-decision making.
• Skill in critical thinking to provide effective and compassionate nursing care, assessing patient Situations and taking effective courses of action.
• Skill in providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
• Skill in providing effective nursing services, assessing patient situations and taking effective courses of action.
• Skill in assessing and prioritizing multiple requests by patients, families, and team members.
• Skill in evaluating health problems, and making recommendations based on observations.
• Skill in operating a personal computer utilizing a variety of software applications

MINIMUM EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

An Associate�s Degree in Nursing. Equivalent knowledge, experience, education, or training may be substituted for education.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATION

1-year nursing experience in area of specialty or previous charge nurse or supervisory experience

MINIMUM CERTIFICATION QUALIFICATION

Current registered nurse license in the State of Alaska.

Current Basic Life Support card required.

All other certifications as required for specific work area: New Employees must obtain the required Certifications within six months of hire; Contract and MOA employees must come to us with the required training completed as outlined in their individual contracts/MOAs, and must be licensed as a registered nurse by the State of Alaska and remain active with all annual licensing requirements.

PREFERRED EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

Bachelor�s degree in nursing preferred

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATION

N/A

PREFERRED CERTIFICATION QUALIFICATION

Specialty certification applicable to

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Must have participated in 30 hours every 2 years continuing education in nursing in general, 16 of which are in the specific area of practice. Successful completion of Charge RN training program within 3 months of promotion to charge RN Successful completion of preceptor training program within 3 months of promotion to charge RN

May be required to work outside the traditional work schedule.

May be called out to work off-shift in emergency situations.

According to the needs of the organization, some incumbents in this job class may be required to obtain specific technical certifications and programming language skills.