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A Brief Overview

This floor is a 28-bed unit where all beds will be licensed as critical care. The plan is to open the unit initially with 18-beds dedicated to infants requiring Level III NICU care. While all beds on this unit will be licensed as critical care, the population for the remaining 10 beds will be identified at a later date based on the demand for inpatient services across the enterprise. This could include Medical and/or Surgical services in addition to Critical Care, resulting in a mixed acuity unit care model.

Responsible for the patient care systems and structures that promote the provision of excellent nursing care on the unit(s). Manages all nursing personnel within the unit(s). Collaborates with support staff to ensure the smooth operation of the units.

What you will do

• Creates and maintains cost effective systems to ensure the availability of adequate staff for unit/program.
• Identifies optimal patterns of staffing to meet patient care needs of unit/program.
• Ensures unit/program schedule is prepared in a timely manner to meet needs of employees as well as staffing standards for unit/program
• Develop systems for daily staffing adjustment within unit/program.
• Collaborates with nursing supervisors to ensure staffing needs within unit/program and across department are met.
• Ensures patient care provided by staff in unit/program is consistent with national standards and/or evidence-based practice.
• Appoints staff representatives to department clinical practice committees.
• Assists staff with development of effective systems to disseminate practice standards within unit/program.
• Supervises clinical practice of staff through rounds, assessment of documentation and feedback from families.
• Ensures that staff participates in educational and clinical development programs to meet specific requirements of patient population served.
• Knowledgeable of clinical standards of care for patient population served by rehabilitation and acute care child development
• Collaborates with other departments to foster interdisciplinary practice and meet the needs of patients and families.
• Works with leadership and staff from other disciplines to create collaborative relationships with nursing staff to meet patient care needs.
• Works with other departments to ensure that clinical staff have systems and supplies/equipment needed to support patient care.
• Creates systems for regular family input into care and unit policies.
• Uses patient satisfaction data and other forms of feedback to improve systems of care.
• Involves family members in unit decision-making where appropriate.
• Educates and supports staff to include families in planning and providing care.
• Develops active quality improvement systems for unit/program and participates in nursing department QI initiatives.
• Ensures that unit has at least one active quality improvement initiative per year.
• Ensures that unit is represented on departmental QI committee and participates in department QI initiatives.
• Actively supports and ensures unit participation in other departmental and hospital initiatives.
• Ensures unit staff are educated about and comply with hospital patient safety initiatives.
• Implements and supports human resource and financial initiatives that are part of institutional annual goals.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Nursing Required
• Master's Degree Preferred

Experience Qualifications

• At least two (2) years prior management or leadership experience Required

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent communication skills, excellent leadership ability, excellent judgment.

Licenses and Certifications

• Registered Nurse (Pennsylvania) - Pennsylvania State Licensing Board - upon hire - Required or
• Registered Nurse (New Jersey) - New Jersey State Licensing Board - upon hire - Required

To carry out its mission, CHOP is committed to supporting the health of our patients, families, workforce, and global community. As a condition of employment, CHOP employees who work in patient care buildings or who have patient facing responsibilities must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and receive an annual influenza vaccine. Learn more.

Employees may request exemptions for valid religious and medical reasons. Start dates may be delayed until candidates are immunized or exemption requests are reviewed.

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