Lead Clinical Nurse RN

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The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

Sharp Grossmont Hospital is proud to be Sharp HealthCare’s only Comprehensive Stroke Center, and East San Diego County’s largest healthcare facility. Sharp Grossmont Hospital has also been awarded its fourth Magnet designation for excellence in nursing practices and quality patient care.  

The Neuroscience program at Sharp Grossmont Hospital offers the most advanced neurological and surgical treatments in the region. Our state-of-the-art neuroscience unit is dedicated to the care of patients with both common and rare neurological conditions. Neuroscience nurses receive a robust, neurology and neurosurgery-specific orientation including didactic, skill, preceptor, and simulation sessions. Initial orientation, combined with annual education, provides nurses with a strong neuroscience foundation, and enables them to provide top tier care for this specialty patient population. This broad neuroscience foundation of knowledge also supports neuroscience nurses to take the Certified Neuroscience Registered Nurse (CNRN) certification exam after 1 year of experience. Professional development and growth opportunities are strongly supported through the Magnet structure, research, conferences, lectures, webinars, certification, and education reimbursement.

We’re excited at the prospect of you joining our dynamic team of healthcare professionals. This team is inclusive of, but not limited to, nursing assistants, physical, occupational, speech, and respiratory therapists, phlebotomists, imaging technicians, nurse practitioners, hospitalists, and several other integral roles. After joining our team, you along with many others will be intimately involved in the cutting-edge delivery of specialized neuroscience care at Sharp Grossmont.

What You Will Do
To provide leadership and coordination of shift operations in a defined clinical area.

Hours:

Full-time, 12-hour shift, night shift, 7:00 PM - 7:30 AM, including every other weekend

Required Qualifications

• Two years recent, pertinent, clinical experience
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association
• ACLS Certification (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) - American Heart Association
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) - Various-Employee provides certificate

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• Leadership experience
• Two years of recent ICU RN experience in an acute care setting
• Stroke/Neuro RN experience

Other Qualification Requirements

• NIHSS is required within 90 days of hire.

Essential Functions

• Achieve patient outcomes
  Demonstrates clinical competence in area of practice
  Participates in quality improvement unit activities based on unit focus/priorities.
  Performs one or more of the following:
  Assists with identifying clinical learning needs of staff and assures learning achieved.
  Implements systems to inform/monitor staff compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.
  Implements action plan to improve clinical care of patients.
  Develops new area of expertise relevant to clinical area.
• Achieves operational outcomes
  Collaborates with other disciplines/departments to resolve daily operational issues when supervising unit.
  Performs one or more of the following:
  Facilitates staff in prioritizing and problem solving daily operational issues.
  Collaborates with Physicians to address operational issues.
  Demonstrates resolution of operational issue with targeted outcomes as negotiated with manager or director.
  Collaborates with other disciplines/departments to resolve identifies issues with demonstrated improvement in operational flow.
• Human resource management
  All 90 day and annual performance reviews are completed within 30 days of due date.
  Assures employee files are current and complete including annual PPD, CPR, RN licensure, safety test, etc.
  Performs one or more of the following:
  Orients/mentors staff into new roles resulting in achieved competencies within identified timelines.
  Develops staff's leadership skills, facilitating learning and growth.
  Assists staff to resolve identified learning/performance issues.
  Develops new area of expertise relevant to human resource management.
• Oversee productivity
  Achieves productivity score between 98-100%
  Monitors flexing, on-call, skill mix, use of overtime, per diem and registry.
  Performs one or more of the following:
  Identifies and/or participates in implementation of cost reducing or revenue enhancing ideas.
  Contributes to utilization of supplies in a cost-effective manner that supports delivery of care within budgeted supply expense per unit of service.
  Contributes to meeting budgeted salary expense per unit of service.
  Develops new area of expertise relevant to resource management.
• Safety
  Facilitates Workman's Compensation reporting and documentation per requirements.
  Demonstrates ability to handle situations not covered by written or verbal instructions that maintain staff/patient safety.
  Conveys importance and rational of policies & procedures and standards of care to staff and customers.
  Performs one or more of the following:
  Demonstrates resolution of safety issue as negotiated with manager or director.
  Trends staff safety learning needs and assures learning achieved.
  Develops new area of expertise relevant to delivery of safe patient care.

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Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.