RN, Charge: Genesis Health System

Our Mission
Genesis Health System exists to provide compassionate, quality health services to all those in need.

Our Vision
Genesis Health System will be the health care provider of choice in our Iowa-Illinois region. We strive to advance health status by offering a full spectrum of high quality health services and technology.

Our Values
Genesis Health System realizes and is committed
to the mission and vision through:

• Integrity We are honest, open in our communications, and consistent in doing what we say we will do.
• Compassion We provide a caring response to the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of all.
• Accountability We accept individual and collective responsibility for everything we do.
• Respect We recognize the dignity and worth of the individual, acknowledging the diversity of needs, experiences and talents of each person.
• Excellence We strive to achieve the best in everything we do.

Job Details:

Varied days including every other weekend, 11:00p - 7:00a, 40 hours/week.

Purpose: Provides shift-to-shift leadership for the practice and delivery of safe, effective, ethical and culturally-competent care for high risk adolescent through aging adult patients with actual or potential life-threatening medical-surgical conditions. This includes support for management of human, fiscal, material, and environmental resources in accordance with hospital guidelines, organizational/nursing philosophies, and in compliance with regulatory and professional standards, including ANA Standards of Professional Performance. Key accountabilities include fostering interdisciplinary collaborative relationships; making appropriate patient care assignments; ensuring smooth shift operations; facilitating

a seamless transition for the next shift that includes exchange of essential information; active participation in quality monitoring and performance improvement activities; promoting evidence-based practice through research utilization or conduct of practice research.

Reports To: Manager

Supervisory Advanced Direction: The job requires some accountability for scheduling, assigning, or coordinating work. The employee will check the quality of work, provide guidance, instruction, training, and direction to others. The job requires some formal or official supervisory responsibility. The individual serves as a group leader and acts in an assistant supervisory or lead role. In addition, the employee is expected to provide information or suggestions on human resources matters.

Materials Responsibility: Limited: Work requires limited responsibility for material resources. Examples of resources could include supplies, equipment, inventories, small budgets, and other similar material assets. The employee has a limited amount of control over these resources. The cost of errors is also limited in terms of damage, waste or financial loss. Problems associated with material resources are not complex. The volume of resources may vary, but the level of difficulty in dealing with these resources is uncomplicated

Key Relationships: Co-workers/Health System Employees, General Public/Visitors/Volunteers, Physicians/Medical Office Staff, Students/Interns/Residents/Outside Instructors, Patients, Families, and Significant Others.

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS

Education: Associate's Degree

Field of Study: Nursing

Special Training ACLS; Basic Life Support.

Training Preferred: Baccalaureate degree in nursing or clinical certification

Licensure/Registration: Registered Nurse in Iowa

Experience: More than 1 year experience required.

Interpersonal Skills: Interaction is with a variety of people inside or outside the organization. Communications are often difficult or stressful in nature. Contact with others involves complex, detailed and often sensitive topics. The job requires a high degree of interpersonal skills to deal with a range of complicated problem situations. Interactions involve gaining the agreement of others.

Physical Demands: Very High Intensity: A main requirement of the job is physical labor. Forces exerted are equivalent to lifting more than 50 pounds. The need for physical stamina and endurance is extremely significant. The degree of physical strain produced on the job is very high. It results in considerable fatigue and requires periods of rest. Work could require very fine dexterity and extreme muscular control, involving various body postures. The position exceeds these very high intensity demands occasionally 10-35% of the time.