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Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Anchorage, AK, US

Medical Insurance provided through the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program as a Tribal Employee, with over 20 plans and tiers.
Cost-Share Dental and Vision Insurances
Discounted Pet Insurance
Retirement Contributions with Pre-Tax or Roth options into a 403(b).
401(a) ANTHC Retirement Plan: After one year of employment, ANTHC will begin making matching contributions of up to 5% of your eligible pay, based on your own contributions. In addition, you may be eligible for an annual discretionary contribution of up to 3% from the employer.
Paid Time Off starts immediately, earning up to 6 hours per pay period, with paid time off accruals increasing based on years of service.
Eleven Paid Holidays
Paid Parental Leave or miscarriage/stillbirth eligibility after six months of employment
Basic Short/Long Term Disability premiums, Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance, and Basic Life Insurance are covered 100% by ANTHC, with additional options for Short-Term Disability Buy-Up Coverage and Voluntary Life for yourself and your family members.
Flexible Spending Accounts for Healthcare and Dependent Care.
Ancillary Cash Benefits for accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness.
On-Site Child Care Facility with expert-designed classrooms for early child development and preschool.
Employee Assistance Program with support for grief, financial counseling, mental/emotional health, and discounted legal advice.
Tuition Discounts for you and your eligible dependents at Alaska Pacific University.
On-Site Training Courses and Professional Development Opportunities.
License and certification reimbursements and occupational insurance for medical staff.
Emergency Travel Assistance
Education Assistance or Education leave eligibility
Discount program for travel, gym memberships, amusement parks, and more.

Visit us online at www.anthc.org or contact Recruitment directly at HRRecruiting@anthc.org.

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium has a hiring preference for qualified Alaska Native and American Indian applicants pursuant to P.L. 93-638 Indian Self Determination Act.

Summary

Provides oversight of the activities on a nursing unit during a specific shift including serving as a resource to staff, directing patient flow, precepting or mentoring staff, assuring appropriate utilization of resources, and providing oversight for the provision of quality care in a manner satisfying to patients.

Responsibilities

Performs all duties included in the registered nurse job description.

Evaluates one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and relevant statues and regulations, identifying short and long-term professional goals.

Maintains current knowledge, serves as a resource on departmental policies, procedures and processes, and assists in education and assuring compliance.

Assists in finding creative solutions to issues and contributes knowledge to process and quality improvement.

Utilizes the ANA scope and standards practice and the code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements as the foundation of nursing practice.

Mentors other in areas such as competency, documentation, equipment use, plan of care, National Patient Safety Goals and participation in in-service education.

Exhibits a general understanding of the process for dealing with ethical dilemmas, understand, and coordinates the process for obtaining an ethics consult.

Coordinates patient flow throughout the facility with f timely and effective care.

Expedites admission process for ready beds when assigned.

Provides and ensures quality patient care.

Communicates effectively with patients and families to resolve issues and provides service recovery when needed.

Participates in daily rounds and other patient satisfaction activities and ensures staff are working within their scope, educational opportunities, correcting behavior, problem-solving.

Performs routine environment of care rounds and facilitates resolution of issues.

Assures patient privacy is protected and confidentiality of information is maintained on the unit.

Participates on a hospital or departmental level committee as requested.

Assists in assuring appropriate utilization of supplies and equipment, maintenance of supply levels and are of equipment and facilities.

Assures appropriate utilization of staff on unit by preparing staff schedules, overseeing staffing for shift and making patient assignments to meet patient needs in an efficient and cost effective manner.

Regularly attends hospital wide bed meetings.

Assists with hiring, onboarding, orientating, precepting, coaching and evaluating staff.

Evaluates care given by staff.

Coaches to improve care.

Establishes effective work relationships with staff and supports action plans in meeting staff satisfaction goals.

Understands, articulates, supports and serves as a resource for the components of the nursing bundle. Including observation and coaching of staff.

Maintains professional, effective and timely communication with physicians, other departments, (fast track) patients and families, staff, EMS partners and community members.

Provides departmental leadership in the absence of the unit director/manager/supervisor.

Meets or exceeds productivity standards.

Assures patient flow is efficient. Distributes staff resources to meet patient occupancy.

Role model for teamwork, fills beds, cleans beds, assists others with their assignment, facilitates admissions, recognizes when staff members are overwhelmed and adjusts assignment according; balances assignments, delegates appropriately.

Assists in providing positive impressions to patients and visitors, promotes a caring and compassionate approach to all interactions.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Other Information

KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS

Knowledge of nursing science, principles, techniques, and procedures for the care of patients.

Knowledge of healthcare terminology, anatomy, physiology and concepts of disease.

Knowledge and ability to utilize evidence based practice to develop the plan of care and interventions.

Knowledge of the hospital environment and how the services and functions interact.

Knowledge of Alaska Native cultures and the Alaska Tribal Health System.

Knowledge of nursing theorists and ability to provide theory based care for patients.

Knowledge of shared governance environment with shared-decision making.

Skill in critical thinking to provide effective and compassionate nursing care, assessing patient situations and taking effective courses of action.

Skill in providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Skill in providing effective nursing services, assessing patient situations and taking effective courses of action.

Skill in assessing and prioritizing multiple requests by patients, families, and team members.

Skill in evaluating health problems, and making recommendations based on observations.

Skill in operating a personal computer utilizing a variety of software applications.

MINIMUM EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

An Associate’s Degree in Nursing. Equivalent knowledge, experience, education, or training may be substituted for education.

Minimum Experience Qualification

1-year nursing experience in area of specialty or previous charge nurse or supervisory experience.

MINIMUM CERTIFICATION QUALIFICATION

Current registered nurse license in the State of Alaska.

Current Basic Life Support card required.

All other certifications as required for specific work area: New Employees must obtain the required Certifications within six months of hire; Contract and MOA employees must come to us with the required training completed as outlined in their individual contracts/MOAs, and must be licensed as a registered nurse by the State of Alaska and remain active with all annual licensing requirements.

Preferred Education Qualification

Bachelor’s degree in nursing preferred.

Preferred Certification Qualification

Specialty certification applicable to position.

Additional Requirements

Must have participated in 30 hours every 2 years continuing education in nursing in general, 16 of which are in the specific area of practice. Successful completion of Charge RN training program within 3 months of promotion to charge RN Successful completion of preceptor training program within 3 months of promotion to charge RN.

May be required to work outside the traditional work schedule.

May be called out to work off-shift in emergency situations.

According to the needs of the organization, some incumbents in this job class may be required to obtain specific technical certifications and programming language skills.

Charge House Supervisor Nurse – Specifically assist in providing oversight of the House Supervisors, Transfer Center, Float Pool Nurses, Patient Observers (PO), and Patient Care Technicians (PCT) during a given shift.

Rounding/breaks/lunch assistance to the TED space, 2 Central, House Supervisors, Transfer Center.

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