- Location
- Hutchinson, KS
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Healthcare
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Source
- Paylocity
Description
Description
Hospital Charge Nurse — real ownership of a small, skilled inpatient unit, not a badge number in a big system. Lead the shift, stay at the bedside, and help our patients get back to Good to Go.
Position Summary:
The Hospital Charge Nurse provides clinical and operational leadership for the inpatient hospital unit, ensuring safe, high-quality patient care and continuous RN coverage across a 24/7 schedule. As a working charge nurse, this position both delivers direct patient care and supervises the hospital RN and CNA team. The role serves as the regulatory liaison for dietary services and participates in the unit's on-call coverage rotation as the last-resort backstop when a scheduled RN shift cannot otherwise be filled.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the day-to-day operations of the inpatient hospital unit, ensuring minimum staffing of one RN and one CNA per 12-hour shift, 24/7, and adjusting staffing when patient acuity or volume require.
- Provide direct patient care as a working member of the unit, modeling clinical standards and stepping into the RN role as needed.
- Supervise, schedule, and support the hospital RN and CNA staff, including day-to-day performance, coaching, and coordination of coverage.
- Serve as the last-resort on-call coverage for unfilled hospital RN shifts, within the unit's defined coverage escalation model and on-call rotation.
- Ensure staff complete required orientation and competencies in coordination with nurse education, and support onboarding of new unit staff.
- Act as the regulatory liaison for dietary services, coordinating with the contracted offsite dietician and maintaining day-to-day dietary regulatory compliance and survey readiness for the unit.
- Monitor and support unit quality, patient safety, infection prevention, and regulatory/accreditation readiness.
- Coordinate patient care and communication with providers, patients, and families to support safe throughput and discharge.
- Participate in hiring, interviewing, and selection for unit positions in partnership with HR and the CNO.
- Escalate clinical, staffing, and operational concerns to the CNO/COO appropriately.
Requirements
Qualifications:
- ADN required, bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) preferred
- Current RN license in the state of Kansas.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of nursing experience, with at least 2 years in a pre-op or hospital floor setting. Previous charge nurse or nursing leadership experience preferred.
- BLS, ACLS, and PALS certifications required;
Work Schedule:
This is a full-time position; may require evening or weekend shifts.
