Advanced Clinician RN - Surgery - Sharp Memorial Hospital – 12 Hour Day Shift - Full Time – Eligible for New Hire Relocation

To provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.

To provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.

Required Qualifications

• Graduate of nursing school.
• 2 Years recent pertinent clinical experience as defined by the CBA.
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing - REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association - REQUIRED

Essential Functions

• Uses systematic planning, appropriate methods and timely exchange of information with multidisciplinary team and patient/family to coordinate care.
• Demonstrates leadership in the identification, resolution and evaluation of system/practice/work flow issues.
• Sought out for critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision making skills.
• Able to identify high priority potential crises before significant clinical changes are evident.
• Utilizes the nursing process and a critical thinking approach to provide patient care that incorporates the mind, body and spirit; is individualized, goal directed, and consistent with current standards of safety.
• Recognized resource, leader and problem-solver for staff in and outside of the unit.
• Serves as a clinical resource and contributes to professional development/education of other staff members.
• Integrates care with a multidisciplinary team to facilitate patients' access to needed resource from preadmission to discharge.
• Applies nursing principles in the provision of science-based comprehensive care delivery to identified patient population.
• Assumes leadership role in interdisciplinary conference by initiating, facilitating and communication.
• Uses critical thinking skills to individualize information, to analyze it and draw conclusion. Thinks creatively to generate and evaluate ideas for making decisions and solving problems for the patient/family.
• Documents per department/entity guidelines of care and policies and procedures.
• Supports documentation process helping others to understand regulatory and legal requirements an implications.
• Delegates/assigns and communicates expectations for care delivery processes to each member of the team.
• Coaches health care team member on how to determine if delegated task is appropriately assigned, how to accept a delegated task, and each individual's accountability for performing and completing the task.
• Uses judgment and problem solving skills to assess appropriateness of physician's orders, is unafraid to question orders and to initiate, redirect and resolve issues.
• Aids staff in developing communication skills that result in customer satisfaction.
• Guides staff in new patient situations and/or those unfamiliar to the nurse or not commonly seen in the department.
• Helps coworkers improve performance.
• Transfers knowledge and mentors others to improve clinical practice.
• Applies expert nursing principles that will directly result in improved outcomes as assessed by patient, family, physicians, and staff.
• Affords patients' needs with staff ability and/or developmental needs.
• Organized and able to clearly present a formal class or presentation by using words, examples, pictures or graphics.
• Nurse-patient/family relationship
• Establishes a therapeutic relationship with patient and family.
• Recognized as a resource to staff for regulatory issues including EMTALA, Durable Power of Attorney, Organ Donations, Consents and Withdrawal of Life Support.
• Identifies ethical dilemmas and takes appropriate steps to resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Uses alternative and complex strategies to interact with and create a therapeutic relationship with patients' and families who are perceived as challenging by others.
• Teaches these strategies to other health care providers.
• Provides age appropriate patient education that facilitates recovery, self-care, end-of-life care and health maintenance, health promotion, and wellness.
• Is recognized as a resource for others in developing teaching plans and modifying teaching strategies.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Demonstrates advanced competencies in all areas of the unit skills.
• Serves as a role model for professional behavior through participation in committees.
• Assumes the responsibility of resource role and teaching role.
• Assumes the responsibilities of charge nurse and preceptor for new graduates and/or new orientees to unit.
• Demonstrates leadership skills, which allow the nurse to positively influence the practice of others.
• Provides expert direct patient care and integrates care with multidisciplinary team to facilitate patient access to needed resources from pre-admission to discharge.
• Assumes leadership role in interdisciplinary conference by initiating, facilitating and communication.
• Uses critical thinking skills to individualize information, to analyze it and draw conclusion. Thinks creatively to generate and evaluate ideas for making decisions and solving problems for the patient/family.
• Applies knowledge, expertise and leadership to achieve outcomes for unit/department/hospital/organization/community.
• Complies with all regulatory and accreditation standards.
• May participate in the process of evidence-based research utilization.
• Demonstrates critical thinking skills.
• Serves as a role model for professional behavior through participation in committees.

What You Will Do

To provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum)

• $69.070 - $75.080 - $96.480

The stated pay scale reflects the range as defined by the collective bargaining agreement between Sharp HealthCare and Sharp Professional Nurses Network, United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, NUHHCE, AFSME, AFL-CIO. Placement within the range is based on years of RN experience.

New Hire Relocation Incentive

• Qualified external new hire candidates may be eligible for a $5,000 relocation incentive.
• To remain eligible for your sign on incentive the following criteria must be met:
• Must remain in original hired FTE status and shift (if specified in offer letter).
• Must remain in original department/specialty.
• Must remain in original Job Title.
• Transfers to a non-bonus eligible department or position may result in forfeiting remaining incentive bonus.

Employee Referral Incentive

• Referral must list the name of the Sharp employee that referred them on the job application.
• External referrals only.
• If referring a former Sharp employee – must be more than 12 months since last date of employment with Sharp Healthcare at the time of referral.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.