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This is a Registered Nurse position whose primary responsibility is the oversight and coordination of daily operations in the Emergency Department with the goal of insuring safe, timely, efficient, and effective care to patients in this setting. Additional responsibilities include, collaborating with nursing education to ensure the emergency department specific educational needs of the team are met.

Reports To: VP of Patient Care Services and is a part of the Patient Care Services LeadershipTeam. Works closely with ED Medical Director to ensure high quality, timely and appropriate care for patients.

Direct Responsibility and Oversight: Registered Nurses, Paramedics, Patient Observers and Emergency Room Techs.

Essential Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities

Quality

1. Collaborates with medical staff, nursing leadership, nursing staff, and other clinicians to develop, implement, and monitor effectiveness of evidence-based protocols.

2. Provides leadership by participating in human resources management processes including recruitment, selection, orientation, professional development, competency assessment, and annual performance evaluations.

3. Assists with the development and implementation of a performance improvement program for areas of responsibility.

4. Reviews staffing patterns, census, and acuity of nursing units to verify staffing is consistent with patient needs. Adjusts such staffing patterns to meet productivity and benchmarks, based on hospital mission.

Morale and Culture

1. Assists with daily patient care and assists where needed during times of high volume and high acuity as needed.

2. Participates in and promotes staff rounding to address caring practices, patient and family needs, and discharge planning.

3. Acts as a formal and informal consultant, assisting with change and acting as a change agent to promote caring and evidence-based practices.

4. Promotes an environment that is collaborative and supportive of staffs personal and professional growth.

5. Contributes to a culture that facilitates development of clinical expertise of the team by role modeling, teaching, coaching, and mentoring.

Response to Diversity

1. Communicates issues that arise from individual differences to nursing leadership and collaborates with nursing leadership to improve awareness of these issues in nursing staff, medical staff, and other health care providers.

2. Provides an appropriate climate for learning and facilitates the adult learning process by developing, planning, and presenting educational opportunities (unit-based orientation, in-services, continuing education, 1:1 coaching, etc.) and fostering the development of competence in the Emergency Department.

3. Assists in the identification and resolution of conflict between others that affect performance, with making any party feel diminished.

Advocacy

1. Integrates and promotes integration of ethical principles into all aspects of practice.

2. Collaborates with staff and nursing leadership to promote professional development and healthcare at the unit, organizational, regional, and state levels.

3. Advocates on behalf of the Emergency Department team to represent concerns of patients, families, medical staff, and healthcare providers.

Facilitator of Learning

1. Serves as a mentor for professional practice.

2. Identifies the learning needs of staff and designs educational opportunities to enhance knowledge and skills of the staff.

3. Develops, adapts, and evaluates educational programs for the emergency department team.

4. Functions as an expert resource within area of specialty.

5. Evaluates own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards, relevant statutes and regulations and maintaining continuing professional nursing competence.

6. Identifies opportunities to pursue own professional growth.

Collaboration

1. Participates in departmental, hospital and system programs, committees, and special projects to achieve desired outcomes.

2. Teaches, mentors, coaches, and role models nursing personnel to promote growth and accountability throughout the healthcare team.

3. Assists in the creation, implementation, and evaluation of programs in collaboration with organizational leadership, nursing leadership and other departments.

Financial Discipline

1. Integrates knowledge of NCHs mission, vision, goals, and systems into staff and patient strategies, development, and implementation.

3. Promotes system redesign to promote a culture of safety for patients, families, and staff.

4. Collaborates and communicates frequently with the Directors of Patient Care Services to ensure timely response and to identify issues.

5. Recognizes, responds, and provides follow-up for issues, concerns, and suggestions on behalf of the patient population and staff.

6. Assumes accountability for efficient use of resources:

a. Provides input regarding budgeting, purchasing, annual objectives, and utilization of budgeted funds.

b. Monitors and analyzes work methods, scheduling, and staffing to ensure a high level of serv