Charge Nurse-Labor & Delivery

Provides nursing care and services to patients/families. Provides direction to licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistive personnel. Delegates nursing care according to according to legal and regulatory guidelines/statutes and organizational policies. Utilizes reasonable judgment in carrying out prescribed medical orders of a practitioner. Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver. Serves as resource nurse. Acts as preceptor and takes charge duties as assigned. Serves as charge nurse. Assigns work to unit/clinic staff as appropriate. Ensures unit/clinic operations and nursing care runs smoothly.

• Performs charge duties.
• Identifies patient care problems and ensures follow-up.
• Sets priorities for patient and unit/clinic needs.
• Coordinates departmental activities and staff to ensure optimum patient care and resource utilization.
• Makes/documents assignments taking into account patient needs and staff competencies.
• Monitors daily staffing and adjusts according to census, acuity, and unit/clinic needs.
• Provides clear, consistent direction for staff.
• Practices professional nursing and delegates nursing tasks to nursing assistive personnel and provides direction to the LPN as appropriate.
• Utilizes nursing process to deliver care.
• Performs any nursing task requiring nursing knowledge, judgment, and skill and maintains organizational, departmental, and job-specific competencies in accordance with their departmental scope of service, discipline, specific scopes of practice and defined job descriptions.
• Administers medications.
• Teaches LPNs and nursing assistive personnel special tasks of nursing care.
• Verifies staff competency to perform special tasks of nursing care as appropriate.
• Is responsible and accountable for quality of nursing rendered and adequacy of nursing care provided when special tasks are delegated to nursing assistive personnel.
• Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver.
• Serves as resource nurse and acts as preceptor.
• Incorporates the KP Vision, Model and Values through out their Nursing Practice.
• Performs administrative and other duties and accepts responsibility as assigned.
• May perform patient care to the extent necessary to maintain clinical expertise, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care on the unit.

• Nineteen (19) months nursing experience.

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.

• Registered Nurse License (Hawaii)
  

• Neonatal Resuscitation Program from American Academy of Pediatrics
  

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support from American Heart Association
  

• Basic Life Support from American Heart Association
  

• Complete the Association of Womens Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Advanced Fetal Monitoring Certificate within 12 months of hire.
• Minimum of one (1) year of experience in area of specialty or completion of formal course in area of specialty within established time frame.

• Experience working with electronic medical records.
• One (1) year experience or completion of formal course in area of specialty.
• Coursework in basic EKG.