Registered Nurse - Observation Unit FT Days

Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.

The Charge Nurse is a Registered Nurse with a strong knowledge base and clinical experience, able to use dynamic leadership abilities to effectively coordinate and manage day-to-day operations. The charge nurse has the leadership capacity and knowledge base necessary to assure that all patients receive personalized and quality care.

Required Behaviors:

• As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization. Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks.  Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

Required Qualifications:

• Current licensure by the State Board of Nursing of New Mexico or compact (multi-state) license
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
• Advanced Certification Life Support (ACLS)
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills
• Self-motivation and accountability
• Team oriented
• Completion of the Charge Nurse Course within 6 months of assuming a Charge Nurse role.
• Completion of Death Pronouncement training within 6 months of assuming a Charge Nurse role as applicable to area of specialty.

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least one (1) – two (2) years of progressive experience in area of specialty
• BSN

Duties and Responsibilities: 

Leadership:

• Acts as a clinical and supervisory resource
• Analyzes and distributes fair patient assignments
• Serves as team leader, encouraging others throughout each shift in alignment with expectations and in support of SJRMC
• Serves as supportive liaison to other teams and departments as needed
• Ensures smooth transition from shift to shift
• Role models SJRMC’s Core Values in all interactions
• Cultivates supportive, encouraging relationships with others
• Rounds on patients and staff
• Coaches team members to promote and develop skills and behaviors necessary to execute department strategy and hospital strategic goals
• Monitors department schedule and assures adequate staffing and schedule accuracy and assists in the development of education and orientation

Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors:

•  Exhibits effective communication and negotiation skills
•  Can lead a team and crosses boundaries to facilitate collaboration
•  Understands one’s values, beliefs, and attitudes and how they affect interactions with others

Quality and Performance Improvement:

• Consistently displays a commitment to improving quality performance
• Actively participates in departmental quality initiatives
• Assures the safety of patients and staff is maintained

Personal and Professional Accountability:

• Actively participates in personal and professional growth and development
• Practices and supports nursing standards and scopes of practice
• Assists in patient care, acting in a staff RN role, when needed
• Promotes critical thinking with nursing staff

Financial and Strategic Management:

• Demonstrates an understanding and support of departmental and hospital strategic priorities (including Operational Excellence, Patients & Customers, Caregivers & Providers, and Financial Performance Growth)
• Coordinates effective patient throughput

• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:

                     Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship

• Other duties as assigned

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:

• Must be able to see with corrective eyewear and hear clearly with assistance.
• Must be able to walk, stand, bend, squat, climb, kneel, and twist frequently.
• Must be able to lift greater than fifty (50) pounds and push up to three hundred (300) pounds frequently.
• Potential exposure to blood and bodily fluids and meets OSHA training requirements.

Special Demands:

• Sets limits when dealing with angry, hostile, or sometimes verbally or physically abusive patients and  families in an attempt to ensure a safe, respectful environment that will support the delivery of care.
• Effectively copes and strives for balance when caring for acutely ill patients and families.