Charge RN, PreOp PACU

Northern Arizona Healthcare

Charge RN responsible for overseeing patient care activities and staff leadership at Northern Arizona Healthcare. Advocating for patient needs and ensuring compliance with healthcare standards.

Posted 7/27/2026full-timeFlagstaff • Arizona • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong patient advocacy and collaboration skills, ensuring quality patient care through effective communication and staffing management. Proficient in incident documentation, performance monitoring, and compliance with healthcare policies and procedures.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Active Arizona RN LicenseBLS CertificationACLS CertificationPALS CertificationPatient Advocacy

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Hard Skills

Patient Care ManagementIncident DocumentationPatient EducationStaff Performance MonitoringDischarge Planning

Soft Skills

CommunicationProblem SolvingCollaborationLeadershipAdvocacy

Certifications & Qualifications

Active Arizona RN LicenseBLSACLSPALSCPAN

Industry Keywords

Patient AdvocacyHealthcare ComplianceQuality Patient CareStaffing PatternsPatient Throughput

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Addresses patient and family concerns, communicates issues and solutions through appropriate channels.
Documents incidents, events, interventions, and patient/staff/physician responses.
Serves as patient advocate.
Prioritize and problems solves to meet changes in patient status/condition.
Works with other departments to ensure smooth patient throughput processes including discharge planning and patient education as appropriate.
Collaborates with physicians and other health care professionals to ensure staffing patterns meet appropriate skill mix necessary for quality patient care.
Serves as a liaison with patients, physicians, Administrative Coordinator, Staffing Office, Transfer Center, Care Coordination department, unit staff, ancillary staff and departments.
Serves as a resource, assists staff in caring for patients; able to assist physician with order entry.
Staffing for current and next shift, determining appropriate staff levels and mix to provide quality care and maintain unit productivity.
Assign patient care teams, delegate patient care activities to unit and ancillary staff.
Addresses work flow issues, ensures incidents are appropriately documented and corrective steps are taken.
Makes bed or patient assignment based on patient needs and staff resources.
Identifies appropriate referral and educational resources for patients and staff.
Advocates for both patients and staff as needs arise.
Demonstrated knowledge of NAH and department policies and procedures. Works to ensure compliance of best practice amongst each staff member.
Ensures staff accountability, monitors staff performance, and provides real time constructive feedback whenever possible.
Identifies performance opportunities for improvement and provides resources and education as needed.
Regularly recognizes employees for strong performance and improvements.
Collaborates with clinical manager on employees performance evaluations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Active, unrestricted, Arizona RN License or valid, participating compact license - Required
BLS- Required upon hire
ACLS- Required upon hire
PALS- Required upon hire
CPAN- Preferred
Minimum of one (1) year experience as an RN

Benefits

Comp & perks

Employee discounts
Wellness programs