Neuro StepDown Charge Nurse
SSM Health
**It's more than a career, it's a calling.**
MO-SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis
**Worker Type:**
Regular
**Job Summary:**
Provides leadership and coordination of unit staffing while ensuring implementation of clinical objectives and quality patient care.
**Job Responsibilities and Requirements:**
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
+ Assigns, directs, educates and monitors nursing and support staff during assigned shift. Contributes to or performs performance evaluations of staff.
+ Assesses daily patient care needs and develops and distributes patient care assignments, ensuring that population appropriate patient care is given.
+ Collaborates with advanced practice providers to ensure quality outcomes.
+ Evaluates the effectiveness of patient care and identifies any issues that affect desired patient outcomes.
+ Responds to complaints about patient care and manages through established channels.
+ May provide input for hiring, training, directing, developing and evaluating staff.
+ Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
+ Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
+ Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing
EXPERIENCE
+ One year of registered nurse experience
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
+ Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
+ Constant standing and walking.
+ Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
+ Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
+ Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
+ Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
+ Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
+ Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
+ Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
+ Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
+ Occasional driving.
+ Rare crawling and running.
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
State of Work Location: Illinois
+ Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
+ And
+ Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
State of Work Location: Missouri
+ Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
+ And
+ Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
+ Or
+ Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
State of Work Location: Oklahoma
+ Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
+ And
+ Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
+ Or
+ Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)
State of Work Location: Wisconsin
+ Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
+ And
+ Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
+ Or
+ Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
**Work Shift:**
Night Shift (United States of America)
**Job Type:**
Employee
**Department:**
1729030128 Prog High - 7N Neuro
**Scheduled Weekly Hours:**
36
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