# RN Charge Nurse

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Intermountain Health Alta View Hospital
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $41.20 - $62.17
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Working with the department manager, the RN Charge Nurse provides leadership and clinical expertise on their respective shift and department.

They coordinate unit resources to ensure appropriate staffing levels based on the unique needs of patients on the unit, both clinically and financially.

They function as clinical support for staff and are a role model of competency and professionalism.

**Essential Functions**

- Performs assessments of patients' physical, social, and psychological status.

- Seeks and evaluates information from interdisciplinary team members, patients, families, and physicians.

- Develops individualised plans of care with input from patients, families, teams, and physicians.

- Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs.

- Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration.

- Demonstrates priority-setting and organisational skills in patient care delivery.

- Evaluates patient responses to interventions and revises plans of care as needed.

- Exhibits professional behaviour and encourages nursing professionalism.

- Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice.

- Estimates staffing needs and matches nurse skill levels with patient requirements.

- Manages premium pay and overtime efficiently.

- Provides operational and clinical leadership.

- Mediates conflicts between staff, families, physicians, and other departments.

- Acts as a resource for setting clear expectations.

- Guides others to resolve problems and encourages accountability and professional growth.

- Supports and enforces Intermountain and unit policies and procedures.

- Activates chain of command, rapid response, or code alerts when necessary.

- Participates in continuous quality improvement.

- Completes Charge Nurse training.

**Skills**

- Assessment

- Planning

- Implementation

- Evaluation

- Collaboration

- Leadership

- Communication

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Current RN licence in the state of practice.

- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.

- Unit-specific certification (e.g., ACLS, PALS).

- Experience in the assigned clinical area.

- Mentoring experience.

- Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- One year of clinical nursing experience.

**Physical Requirements**

- Ongoing need to see and read information.

- Frequent interactions with patients, families, and healthcare providers.

- Manual dexterity to manipulate complex equipment.

- Ability to lift and transfer patients.

- Need to walk and assist with transporting patients and obtaining supplies.

**Benefits**

- Generous benefits package covering wellness programs.

## Skills

### Required
- Assessment
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation
- Collaboration
- Leadership
- Communication
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Unit-specific certification

### Nice to have
- One year of clinical nursing experience

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