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Form of workJOB SUMMARY:
Registered Nurse who provides clinical leadership, coordination, and administrative support for a defined clinic location or locations. Responsibilities include accountability for the quality of patient centered care, service excellence, and workplace experience. Facilitates a biogenic environment by fostering relationships that support the continuous enhancement of care delivery, staff and patient satisfaction through a professional practice environment of mutual respect.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
Graduation from an accredited School of Nursing with a Bachelor's degree required. Two years acute care nursing experience within the past 10 years preferred. Previous supervisory or management experience preferred.
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION:
Current Registered Nurse (RN) license in good standing with the North Carolina Board of Nursing and Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification required.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Ensures care delivered is with respect for patient rights and culturally competent. Facilitates Patient Centered Care, promotes service recovery and the nursing professional model. Maintains privacy, confidentiality and security for patients and staff.
- Serves as a staff and patient advocate to ensure optimal patient care. Interfaces with patient and families to ensure that care is consistent with expectations.
- Promotes quality improvement and systems-thinking by openly supporting and consistently communicating the mission of the clinic and organization.
- Collaborates with management team on the development, implementation and evaluation of policies and procedures designed to improve quality of care and operational efficiency.
- Promotes a culture of safety by ensuring compliance with established hospital policies, procedures, objectives, quality control, safety, QC/PI, environment and infection control. Coordinates appropriate QC/PI activities with staff. Audits and maintains clinic metrics for unit and organizational goals.
- Collaborates with the Clinic manager to plan, schedule, and organize work for group ensuring proper distribution and delegation of assignments and efficient utilization of personnel, space and facilities. Monitors the appropriate utilization of staff based on credentialing, education and experience with consideration to the patient population. Assesses/coaches and monitors staff level of practice.
- Maintains unit inventory and supplies.
- Collaborates with Clinic Manager on personnel activities including hiring and performance management.
- Collaborates with Clinic Manager on management reports and budgetary recommendations.
- Performs and maintains competency for point of care testing as assigned, ensuring compliance with WFBH Point of Care policies and with applicable state and federal regulations.
SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:
- Excellent and effective oral and written communication skills
- Ability to organize and supervise clinical nursing care delivery
- Negotiation and conflict resolution Performance Improvement
- Practice Innovation Professional Nursing Practice Theory Resilient and flexible in a changing environment
- Functions effectively under stressful and difficult situations
- Ability to work effectively with the team
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.
Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.
This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.
