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GENERAL DESCRIPTION/MISSION STATEMENT: The Registered Nurse Lead in the Nursing Department, under the direction of the Director of Nursing, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care to ensure quality and efficiency of services while maintaining established standards. The Lead is responsible and has the authority to make clinical care assignments to staff/caregivers on a daily basis. This includes management of sick calls, managing the orientation of new staff, serving as the administrator on duty in house in the absence of the Director of Nursing, and assessing and evaluating staff competency, within their scope of practice.
The Lead facilitates patient activities based on hand off communication/report at the beginning and end of each shift, insuring tests & procedures are completed, and physician is notified of abnormal results. He/She proactively coordinates admissions/transfer placements to accommodate maximum census and optimal services, within Staffing Matrix guidelines. The Lead is aware of, contributes to, and able to apply/resource all organizational policies and procedures is knowledgeable and proficiently serves as a clinical resource for questions regarding proper patient care, manages all resident and family complaints, and assists with clinical procedures. He/she must be adequately prepared by experience and training to care for cases ranging in acuity from non-urgent to life threatening and from minor injuries to major trauma. He/she must demonstrate an ability to cope with a variety of clinical care situations while displaying calm and demonstrate recognition of the value and dignity of the individual without regard to the nature of the illness/injury or the circumstances leading to same. The Lead is expected to participate in all aspects of nursing clinical care including meeting RN clinical competency, medication administration, direct clinical care, and delegation consistent with Board of Nursing requirements.