Service Lead RN
Company: Tufts Medical Center
Location: Boston
Posted on: October 14, 2024
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Job Description:
Job Profile Summary ----This role focuses on providing
professional and nonprofessional nursing care services in
accordance with physician orders. - In addition, this role focuses
on performing the following Clinical Nurse duties: Assesses, plans,
implements, and evaluates the care needs of a designated group of
patients or provides nursing care and identified clinical support
tasks within the scope of practice for achievement of the patient's
plan of care as directed. - Provides professional nursing care to
patients. Requires a nursing license. - - A professional individual
contributor role that may direct the work of other lower level
professionals or manage processes and programs. - The majority of
time is spent overseeing the design, implementation or delivery of
processes, programs and policies using specialized knowledge and
skills typically acquired through advanced education. - - A senior
level role that requires advanced knowledge of job area typically
obtained through advanced education and work experience. -
Typically responsible for: managing projects / processes, working
independently with limited supervision, coaching and reviewing the
work of lower level professionals, resolving difficult and
sometimes complex problems. - -Job Overview -This position plans,
organizes and oversees daily clinical and administrative operations
of designated unit/program or service. - Prepares staff schedules,
requests and allocates resources and facilitates coordination of
care/services to meet patient care and operational requirements. -
This position ensures that patient care is aligned with the goals,
mission and vision of hospital. - Supervises and evaluates nursing
and support personnel and participates in selection of new hires. -
Leads and/or participates in hospital, departmental and
multidisciplinary teams, committees, councils and special projects.
This individual is a critical member of the nursing leadership team
promoting high standards of nursing practice. The will demonstrate
and support a Magnet culture. - This leader adheres to and holds
others accountable to the Board of Registration in Nursing rules
and regulations, ANA scope and standards of nursing, the ANA code
of ethics for nursing, hospital policies and procedures and other
regulatory stipulations. - - - -Job Description -Minimum
Qualifications: -1. Three (3) years of demonstrated clinical
nursing practice including progressive leadership responsibilities.
-2. Registered Nurse (RN) License. -3. Basic Life Support (BLS)
certified. - -Preferred Qualifications: -1. Bachelor of Science in
Nursing (BSN).2. Specialty Nursing certifications. -3. Advanced
Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) required for ICU, ED, PACU, and Cardiac
intervential unit. - -Duties and Responsibilities: The duties and
responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general
nature of work and are not intended to be an all-inclusive list. -
Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned. - -1.
Contributes to an environment that facilitates the development of
clinical expertise of staff via role modeling, teaching, and
coaching/mentoring. -2. Uses knowledge and expertise to identify
potential problems and/or resources for patients and families. -3.
Ensures all staff maintain competency-based practice based upon
patient population. -4. Utilizes an ongoing process of questioning
and evaluating practice and providing informed practice. - Creates
practice changes through research utilization and experiential
learning. -5. Anticipates and identifies opportunities to apply
evidence based practice. -6. Develops and implements a process
improvement plan for area(s) of responsibility. -7. Maintains and
develops clinical knowledge, judgment and skills. -8. Proposes
topics to explore and participates in nursing research. -9.
Supervises unit/department personnel by evaluating work
performance, providing guidance and timely feedback based on
outcome measures. -10. Maintains a working knowledge of clinical
and patient satisfaction initiatives, key performance indicators,
standards of nursing practice and outcomes of patient care. -11.
Practices a constellation of nursing activities that are responsive
to the uniqueness of the person that creates a compassionate and
therapeutic environment, with the aim of promoting comfort and
preventing unnecessary suffering. - Includes but not limited to
vigilance, engagement and responsiveness of caregivers, including
family and healthcare personnel. -12. Identifies need to coordinate
patient care conferences to help ensure best caring practices and
outcomes for patients and families. -13. Participates in
interdisciplinary rounds to address, patient/family needs, and
discharge planning. -14. Fosters patient, family, and professional
relationships that are reciprocal and synergistic, characterized by
mutual respect and professional growth. -15. Sensitivity to
recognize, appreciate, and incorporate differences and preferences
into the provision of care. - Differences include but are not
limited to cultural differences and preferences, gender, sexual
orientation, religion, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic
status, age and values. -16. Identifies issues arising from
individual differences and develops awareness of these issues in
nursing staff, medical staff, and other healthcare providers. -17.
Role models, teaches and/or provides age specific and
developmentally appropriate patient care in accordance with
established guidelines and scope of practice. - -18. Identifies and
encourages resolution of conflicts between others without making
any party feel diminished. -19. Respects, appreciates and supports
the diversity of ideas, thoughts, and competencies among staff,
peers, colleagues and customers. -20. Advocates and represents the
concerns of the patient/family/community; serving as a moral agent
in identifying and helping to resolve ethical and clinical concerns
within the clinical setting. -21. Advocates on behalf of the
nursing staff to represent the concerns of patients/families/staff.
-22. Works in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team to
balance interventions with values that emphasize quality of life,
consumer choice, risk benefit decisions, access to care, and
integrity of human life. - -23. Supports an ethical foundation for
professional practice and patient care. - -24. - Supports proactive
identification and addressing of ethical issues through a
systematic process utilizing the ethics advisory committee as
needed. -25. Promotes healthcare at the local, state, national,
and/or international level. -26. Takes professional risks by
demonstrating commitment to issues and values he/she truly believe
in. -27. Supports staff in the delivery of appropriate
patient/family education. - - -28. Evaluates the effectiveness of
patient/family education and identifies opportunities for
improvement. -29. Monitors the learning needs of staff and
communicates opportunities to enhance knowledge and skills. -30.
Serves as an expert and role model or mentor for professional
practice. -31. Identifies avenues to pursue own professional
growth. -32. Provides constructive feedback, support and resources
to enable the nursing staff to develop skills and abilities. -33.
Demonstrates awareness of self and other's communication style and
adjusts to meet the needs of the situation. -34. Inspires and
motivates oneself and staff to pursue advanced education and/or
certification. -35. Encourages others to become an active member of
professional organizations. - -36. Supports staff's professional
and personal growth. -37. Encourages staff to seek clinical
advancement via the Professional Recognition Program. -38. Engages
self and others in self-development appraisal on a regular basis
identifying areas of strength as well as areas for
personal/professional development. -39. Promotes and encourages
others (patients/families/healthcare providers/community) to
achieve optimal and realistic patient goals. - Collaboration
involved interdisciplinary work with colleagues and the ability to
negotiate and resolve conflict. -40. Role models, teaches, and/or
mentors professional leadership and accountability for nursing's
role within the health care team. -41. Leads and/or participates in
departmental and hospital programs, committees, and/or special
projects to achieve desired outcomes. -42. Improves the quality of
care through shared governance principles. - -43. Communicates
important information via shift to shift huddles. -44.Recognizes,
responds, and provides follow-up on issues, concerns, and
suggestions on behalf of the patient population and staff. -45.
Provides timely follow-up on critical incidents/sentinel events.
-46. Assumes accountability for daily operations at the unit level.
-47. On a daily basis allocates resources and coordinates services
to optimize patient care and services. -48. Provides input in
developing and monitoring operating and capital budget; implements
strategies to improve efficiency and reduce costs. -49. Recognizes
the potential impact of change on all people involved. -50. Keeps
current on regulatory issues and trends and employs strategies to
meet standards in a proactive manner. - -Physical Requirements: -
-1. Prolonged, extensive, or considerable standing and walking. -2.
Lifts, positions, pushes and / or transfers patients. -3.
Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching. -4.
Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases. -5. Contact
with patients under wide variety of circumstances. -6. Subject to
varying and unpredictable situations. -7. Handles emergency and
crisis situations. - -Skills & Abilities: -1. Clinical reasoning,
which includes clinical decision-making, critical thinking, and a
global grasp of the situation, coupled with nursing skills acquired
through a process of integrating formal and experiential knowledge.
-2. Ability to facilitate patient, family and staff learning across
the care continuum. - Contributes to a learning environment
characterized by safe discourse, mentoring and team development.
-3. Demonstrated leadership abilities; able to work under stressful
situations; possesses good oral and written communication skills
and is able to effectively work in a changing environment. -4.
Ability to effectively communicate with patients, families,
physicians, and healthcare team -5. Excels at demonstrating the
knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to patients in the
relevant area of nursing practice -6. Ability to be flexible,
organized and function well under stressful situations. - -
Tufts Medicine is a leading integrated health system bringing
together the best of academic and community healthcare to deliver
exceptional, connected and accessible care experiences to consumers
across Massachusetts. Comprised of Tufts Medical Center, Lowell
General Hospital, MelroseWakefield Hospital, Lawrence Memorial
Hospital of Medford, Care at Home - an expansive home care network,
and large integrated physician network. We are an equal opportunity
employer and value diversity and inclusion at Tufts Medicine. Tufts
Medicine does not discriminate on the basis of race, color,
religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic
information, veteran status, national origin, gender identity
and/or expression, marital status or any other characteristic
protected by federal, state or local law. We will ensure that
individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation
to participate in the job application or interview process, to
perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and
privileges of employment. Please contact us to request
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