TEAM LEAD- REGISTERED NURSE - MEDICAL PEDIATRICS

Registered Nurse Team Lead - Medical Acute Care Services

Full Time (.9 FTE, 72 hours every pay period) 8-hour weekday shifts, weekends if needed

Job Description:

The Registered Nurse Team Lead (TL) understands and supports the philosophy and policies and procedures of Aspirus. The Registered Nurse Team Lead works collaboratively to produce, nurture and sustain a professional practice and healthy work environment that affords and enhances patient care experience, effectiveness, and efficiency through leadership to multidisciplinary teams, effective physician relationships and a shared vision and dedication to the future of Aspirus. TL has accountability for the overall coordination of all the Registered Nurses and other healthcare providers within a specific department. In collaboration with formal leadership, is responsible for overseeing the functioning of the department, which includes participation in direct patient care as well as ensuring appropriate resources to provide safe, high quality patient care.

Experience/Qualifications:

• Associate degree in nursing required.
• Bachelor's degree in nursing preferred.
• Certification in specialty is desired.
• A minimum of four years' experience as practicing RN of which two years have been in a charge nurse role or relevant experience.
• Possesses an active Wisconsin and/or Michigan RN nursing license.
• Current CPR certification. All clinical personnel in identified job codes are required to maintain cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training through independent study, manikin, and knowledge testing. An acceptable CPR training program is the Basic Life Support (BLS) Health Care Provider course from the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross Professional Rescuer Program with AED. (See Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training, Policy #7087).

Employee Benefits:

• Full benefits packages available for part- and full-time status.
• PTO accrual from day one!
• Generous retirement plan with match available.
• Wellness program for employees and their families.

Aspirus Wausau Hospital, the flagship of the Aspirus system, serves northeastern Minnesota, northern and central Wisconsin, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Aspirus Wausau Hospital provides primary, secondary and tertiary care services as a regional referral center. Specialty referral service emphasis exists in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, orthopedics and cancer. The hospital has an average daily inpatient census of 160 with approximately 15,000 admissions per year. Outpatient visits exceed 50,000 and there are also more than 24,000 annual emergency department visits. Best known for its world-class cardiovascular program, Aspirus Wausau Hospital also provides leading edge cancer, trauma, women's health, and spine and neurological care.

Our Mission: We heal people, promote health and strengthen communities.

Our Vision: Aspirus is a catalyst for creating healthy, thriving communities, trusted and engaged above all others.

As an Aspirus team, we demonstrate caring, we plan to impact the future, work with happiness and enthusiasm, recognize our power to make a difference and improve the health of our communities.

Aspirus Health is a nonprofit, community-directed health system based in Wausau, Wisconsin, serving northeastern Minnesota, northern and central Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The health system operates 18 hospitals and 130 outpatient locations with nearly 14,000 team members, including 1,300 employed physicians and advanced practice clinicians. For more information visit aspirus.org.

Credentials: Essential: * REGISTERED NURSE LICENSE * CPR or BLS