BASIC FUNCTIONS OF POSITION: • Prescribes, delegates, and coordinates nursing care for patients utilizing the nursing process. • Provides leadership by working cooperatively with ancillary departments and other patient care team members in maintaining Standards for Clinical Practice and Standards of Patient Care in the clinical setting. • Participates in Quality Improvement. • Participates in patient/family teaching and discharge planning. • Directs, supervises and evaluates nursing care provided. Leads and facilitates decision making at the unit level. • Assigns nursing care to team members in accordance with patient’s needs and nursing staff competencies and qualifications. • Competently performs core and specific skills. • Provides one unit based education to staff annually. • Competently administers medications with knowledge of action, mode of administration, side effects, and contraindications. • Implements, transcribes, and/or countersigns physician orders. • Utilizes assessment skills to identify biophysical, psychosocial, environmental, selfcare, discharge planning, spiritual and educational needs of patient, family, and/or significant other. • Communicates pertinent unit activities, work load fluctuations/staffing, and difficult situations. • Makes patient rounds with physicians and assists with diagnostic tests and procedures. • Identifies learning opportunities for self and others. • Promotes good public relations for the nursing department/hospital. • Competently assumes an active role in the safe, effective administration of oncology chemotherapy, understands mechanism of action, modes of administration, dosage calculation and contraindication. QUALIFICATIONS: EDUCATION: Graduate from an approved school of nursing; BSN preferred. BLS training. LICENSE: Possess current licensure by Missouri State Board of Nursing. EXPERIENCE: Previous nursing experience preferred. SPECIAL: PATIENT CONTACT: Must have the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. PHYSICAL: Must be able to lift approximately 50lbs. STANDING: Majority of shift spent standing. WALKING: Considerable amount of time spent walking. LIFTING: Must use good body mechanics to independently lift or in certain situations, assist with lifting/transferring a patient. VISUAL: Must have ability to read physician orders and observe patient care areas; utilize inspection skills during patient assessment. HEARING: Must be able to receive/comprehend telephone calls; auscultate and percuss during physical assessment. SPEAKING: Talking is essential in instructing and supervising nursing personnel, communicating physician orders and addressing patient/family needs and/or requests.