Charge Nurse

Baptist Health System - San Antonio TX is seeking a Med Surg Charge Nurse (RN) for a nursing job in Nacogdoches, Texas. Job Summary Specialty: Med Surg Discipline: RN Duration: Ongoing Hours per week: 36 hours Shift: 12 hours Employment Type: Staff Description This role is responsible for providing guidance and support to staff, maintaining a safe environment, ensuring patient throughput, and directing nursing staff. The charge nurse is responsible for the smooth and efficient patient flow within the unit, delegates assignments and provides supervision for the support staff in accordance with their level of training and the patients acuity. The charge nurse works, in cooperation with medical providers to ensure the quality of patient care. This role also provides direct clinical patient care, assumes responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing direct clinical care to assigned patients on a per shift basis, and at the unit level. The role supervises staff to ensure appropriate care is delegated. The charge nurse reports to the appropriate clinical leader with oversight by the CNO to ensure high quality, safe and appropriate nursing care, competency of clinical staff, and appropriate resource management related to patient care. Responsibilities Provide guidance and support to staff, maintaining a safe environment. Ensure patient throughput and direct nursing staff. Coordinate patient flow within the unit and delegate assignments. Supervise support staff in accordance with training levels and patient acuity. Work in cooperation with medical providers to maintain quality of patient care. Provide direct clinical care: assess, plan, and implement patient care on a per shift basis. Monitor and ensure appropriate delegation of care to staff. Report to clinical leader and CNO to uphold nursing care quality, safety, and resource management. Qualifications Education: Required: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. Preferred: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree. Experience: Required: 1 year of RN experience. Certifications: Required: Currently licensed, certified, or registered to practice as required by law, regulation in state of practice or policy; AHA BLS, and if applicable by corporate policy for unit of hire, AHA ACLS and/or PALS and/or NRP. Physical Demands: None specified. (This can be clarified if needed.) Job Information: Job ID #View phone number on click.appcast.io. Posted job title: Charge Nurse Med‑Surg. FT Nights. Benefits Health Care FSA Dependent Care FSA Life insurance #J-18808-Ljbffr