Charge Nurse Pediatrics PICU - Night
Company: Kaiser Permanente
Location: Wake Island
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Description: Job Summary: Provides nursing care and services to
patients/families. Provides direction to licensed practical nurses
(LPNs) and nursing assistive personnel. Delegates nursing care
according to according to legal and regulatory guidelines/statutes
and organizational policies. Utilizes reasonable judgment in
carrying out prescribed medical orders of a practitioner. Functions
as primary nurse/total patient caregiver. Serves as resource nurse.
Acts as preceptor and takes charge duties as assigned. Serves as
charge nurse. Assigns work to unit/clinic staff as appropriate.
Ensures unit/clinic operations and nursing care runs smoothly.
Essential Responsibilities: Performs charge duties. Identifies
patient care problems and ensures follow-up. Sets priorities for
patient and unit/clinic needs. Coordinates departmental activities
and staff to ensure optimum patient care and resource utilization.
Makes/documents assignments taking into account patient needs and
staff competencies. Monitors daily staffing and adjusts according
to census, acuity, and unit/clinic needs. Provides clear,
consistent direction for staff. Practices professional nursing and
delegates nursing tasks to nursing assistive personnel and provides
direction to the LPN as appropriate. Utilizes nursing process to
deliver care. Performs any nursing task requiring nursing
knowledge, judgment, and skill and maintains organizational,
departmental, and job-specific competencies in accordance with
their departmental scope of service, discipline, specific scopes of
practice and defined job descriptions. Administers medications.
Teaches LPNs and nursing assistive personnel special tasks of
nursing care. Verifies staff competency to perform special tasks of
nursing care as appropriate. Is responsible and accountable for
quality of nursing rendered and adequacy of nursing care provided
when special tasks are delegated to nursing assistive personnel.
Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver. Serves as
resource nurse and acts as preceptor. Incorporates the KP Vision,
Model and Values through out their Nursing Practice. Performs
administrative and other duties and accepts responsibility as
assigned. May perform patient care to the extent necessary to
maintain clinical expertise, competency and licensing necessary to
fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care on
the unit. Basic Qualifications: Experience Nineteen (19) months
nursing experience. Education Graduate from an accredited school of
nursing. License, Certification, Registration Registered Nurse
License (Hawaii) Pediatric Advanced Life Support Basic Life Support
from American Heart Association Additional Requirements:
Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in teamwork, leadership,
adaptability, change management, decision making, detail oriented,
customer service, influence, interpersonal relations, oral
communication, prioritization, problem solving, quality management,
results orientation, system thinking, teamwork, time management,
written communication competencies. Minimum of one (1) year of
experience in area of specialty or completion of formal course in
area of specialty within established time-frame. Preferred
Qualifications: Experience working with electronic medical records.
One (1) year experience or completion of formal course in area of
specialty. Coursework in basic EKG.
Keywords: Kaiser Permanente, Honolulu , Charge Nurse Pediatrics PICU - Night, Healthcare , Wake Island, Hawaii
