Charge Nurse on 1G Metabolic Unit
Saint Peter’s University Hospital
- Appropriately assigns patients to floor nurses for shift duration
- Assists with patient admissions and discharges
- Performs skin assessments every shift with floor nurses
- Acts as a resource to floor nurses for education and upholding proper protocol
- Advocates on behalf of both patients and floor nurses
- Performs quality control checks on unit code cart and ZOLL defibrillator
- Ensures teleneurology cart is operational and updated
- Supervises patient cardiac monitors to check for change in rate or rhythm
- Ensures Pyxis narcotics are counted at the beginning of every shift
- Ensures CAUTI/CLABSI prevention with daily central line and foley assessment and documentation
- Manages codes by delegating tasks through use of closed-loop-communication
- Gives report and updates every shift for entire floor to oncoming dayshift charge nurse
- Performs staff huddle and debriefing after every shift
- Divides patient assignments appropriately for oncoming shift.