Staff RN - Hospital - Full Time Nights - West LA Med Ctr - Tele - Kaiser
Company: Kaiser
Location: Whittier
Posted on: April 17, 2024
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Job Description:
$10,000 sign-on bonus for eligible external hires! Job Summary:
As the leader of the health care team, provides professional
nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with
established standards of care, policies, and procedures.
Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision,
Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization. Remains flexible
to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and
effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats
co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care
team with dignity and respect. Essential Responsibilities: The
Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the
following skills, competencies, and behaviors: Leadership: Upholds
Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of
Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.
Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks
appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates
issues as appropriate. Demonstrates professional, supportive
behavior. Champions new ideas. Leads and directs others through the
change process. Utilizes communication strategies including chain
of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
Participates in problem identification and resolution. Mentors,
orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient
care activities Shares responsibility and authority with
subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.
Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in
order to assist member problem resolution. Prioritizes, delegates,
and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion
of patient care activities. Complies with regulatory requirements,
policies, procedures, and standards of practice. Nursing Process:
Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that
reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the
outcomes of that plan. Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary
planning, consultation, and education. Ensures plan is reflective
of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age
appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others,
and completed in a timely manner. Monitors the patients progress
based on the plan. Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient
condition and evaluation of progress. Ensures care meets standards
of practice. Ensures effective development and completion of
discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family
education. Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge
instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for
patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient
medical management plan. Ensures patient safety related but not
limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights;
patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial
infections. Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort;
identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns
regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge. Ensures that
patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and
administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time
of discharge. Documentation: Charting is accurate, legible, dated,
and timed. Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions
and evaluations taken. Utilizes computer systems effectively and
efficiently for optimal patient care. Clinical Outcomes: Discusses
patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and
other members of the health care team. Demonstrates competencies
during the probationary period and ongoing completion by
departmental competency validation. Make comprehensive nursing
decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and
evaluations of patient outcomes. Participates in departmental
performance improvement activities, i.e., planning,
measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving. Workplace Safety:
Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices. Applies
standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and
others Patient Care Experience: Practices customer service
standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and
specified department. Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and
patient requests. Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the
customers ability to utilize resources. Maintains and protects
patient confidentiality Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work
environment. Treats all families of patients with courtesy,
respect, kindness and compassion. Provides an optimal patient care
experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and
family members and taking responsibility for meeting those
identified needs. Gives patients information in a way they can
understand and ensures comprehension. Provides a patient care
experience that exceeds members expectations. Team Commitment:
Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible,
cooperative, and willing to assist others. Confronts difficult or
conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate
assistance. Takes accountability for own actions and accepts
constructive criticism. Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor
to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as
required, actively participates in other departmental professional
development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).
Participates with the assessment of current and future unit
learning needs and development of an annual education plan. Keeps
self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations
for change. Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area
promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of
assigned shift. Supports a collaborative Labor-Management
Partnership environment through unit based teams. Fiscal
Responsibility Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs
simplification or correction. Utilizes payroll and non-payroll
resources to their maximum potential. Basic Qualifications:
Experience Minimum six (6) months of experience required in an
acute or sub-acute facility within the last three (3) years.
Education N/A License, Certification, Registration Registered Nurse
License (California) Basic Life Support Additional Requirements:
N/A Basic Arrhythmia course required. Notes: If twelve (12) hour
option chosen, shift will be 7:00 pm-7:30 am, back up 8 hour shift
will be 11:00 pm to 7:00 am. PrimaryLocation : California,Los
Angeles,West Los Angeles Medical Center HoursPerWeek : 36 Shift :
Night Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
WorkingHoursStart : 07:00 PM WorkingHoursEnd : 07:30 AM Job
Schedule : Full-time Job Type : Standard Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B13-AFSCME-UNAC Job Level :
Individual Contributor Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse
Practitioners Department : West LA Medical Center - Med/Surg - UNIT
4 - 0801 Travel : No Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity
employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants
will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,
color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual
orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status,
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