Charge Nurse - Admit/Discharge Center
- Piedmont Healthcare
- Augusta, GA, USA
Job Description
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Charge Nurse - Admit/Discharge Center
Overview:
Experience the advantages of real career change
Join Piedmont to move your careerin the right direction.Stay for thediverseteamsyoulllove, a sharedpurpose, and schedule flexibility that frees you to live for what matters both in and outside of work.Youllfeel valued, motivated to be your best, and recognized for your contributions to exceptional patient outcomes. Piedmont leaders arein your corner, invested inyour success. Our wellness programs and comprehensive total benefits and rewards meet your needstoday andhelp youplan for the future.
Responsibilities: Coordinates the delivery of quality nursing care for patients from birth through the lifecycle, as well as operational issues during his/her shift. Provides clinical care as needed when census demands. Communicates patient care, departmental issues, and staff concerns to the appropriate leader(s). Serves as resource for guidance and assistance to the staff. Qualifications: Education- Graduate of a nursing program Required
- Bachelors Degree Bachelors degree Preferred
- 1 year of nursing experience in a hospital setting Required
- Two (2) or more years of nursing experience in a hospital setting Preferred
- Current License in the State of Georgia as a Registered Nurse or NLC/eNLC Multistate License Required
- BLS certification Required
- Advanced certification in field of specialty, if applicable (see addendum) Required
- ACLS Certification (Cardiac Tele, Critical Care, Surgical Services including Labor and Delivery) Required
- PALS Certification (Emergency Department) Required
- Chemotherapy/Biotherapy Certification prior to independent chemotherapy administration (Infusion/Oncology) Required
- NRP by the end of orientation period (Womens Services: Labor and Delivery, Mother/Baby, NICU, NAT, Nursery) Required
- AWHONN Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Program within 12 months of start date (Labor and Delivery) Required
- PEARS Certification ( at Piedmont Athens Hospital) Required
- PALS if unit provides care to pediatric patients (Surgical Services) Required
- ACLS and PALS Certification (Emergency Department) Required
- ACLS; PALS if unit provides care to pediatric patients (Surgical Services) Required
- Experienced Emergency Department nurses will have 30 days to obtain the PALS certification Required
Piedmont. Real Change Lives Here.
Piedmont is empowering Georgians by changing health care. We continue to fuel Georgia’s growth through safe, high-quality care close to home through an integrated health care system that provides a hassle-free, unified experience. We are a private, not-for-profit organization that for centuries has lived up to our purpose to make a positive difference in every life we touch in the communities we serve.
Across our 2,279 physical locations we care for more than 4.5 million patients and serve communities that comprise 85 percent of Georgia’s population. This includes 26 hospitals, Piedmont Urgent Care centers, 108 QuickCare locations, 2,171 Piedmont Clinic physician practices and nearly 3,600 Piedmont Clinic members. Our patients conveniently engage with Piedmont online, as they scheduled more than 562,000 online appointments and over 121,100 virtual visits.
With more than 47,000 care givers we are the largest Georgia-based employer of Georgians, who all came for the job, but stayed for the people. In 2024 and 2023, Piedmont has earned recognition from Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity and also as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women. In 2022, Forbes ranked Piedmont on its list of the Best Large Employers in the United States. In addition, Piedmont provided nearly $607 million in community benefit programming and uncompensated care in Fiscal Year 2024.