About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses. The Charge Nurse supervises, guides, and instructs subordinate staff, ensuring proper assessment of patients' health problems and needs, and developing and implementing nursing care plans.
Responsibilities
- Supervises, guides, and instructs the work assignments of subordinate staff
- Plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for an assigned unit or shift
- Ensures nursing staff properly assess patients’ health problems and needs
- Develops and implements nursing care plans and ensures medical records are maintained accurately
- Supervises the provision and quality of nursing care provided to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients
- Provides guidance to nursing staff regarding patient care, policies, procedures, and appropriate clinical practices
- Administers prescribed medications and treatments and ensures proper documentation
- Coordinates with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care
- Advises patients regarding health maintenance, disease prevention, and treatment planning
- Coordinates staffing, assignments, and daily nursing operations for the assigned unit or shift
- Ensures nursing services comply with established standards, policies, procedures, and applicable regulations
- Provides training and clinical guidance to nursing and support staff
- May provide case-management services
- Performs other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Associate degree in nursing from an accredited college or university
- Current Georgia license as a Registered Professional Nurse
- Four years of professional nursing experience, including two years in a lead-worker, team-leader, managerial, or supervisory role; or one year of experience at the lower-level Registered Nurse 3, job code HCP 072, or an equivalent position
Nice to have:
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited college or university
- Previous experience as a Charge Nurse, Lead Nurse, or nursing supervisor
- Experience working in a behavioral health, psychiatric, hospital, long-term-care, or skilled-nursing setting
- Experience working with individuals with mental health conditions or developmental disabilities
- Demonstrated ability to lead and provide direction to nursing staff
- Strong communication, organization, documentation, and patient-care skills
Important Details
About the Company
The State of Georgia is a large enterprise, composed of various agencies and entities with a common goal to improve the lives of Georgia's more than 10 million citizens. The Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) is the agency for this role.
