Clinical RN - Sharp Memorial Hospital - Emergency Department - FT - Nights - May be eligible for 5k in relocation

About the role

Provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.

Pay

Hourly pay range: $61.74 – $70.17 – $90.16. Placement within the range is based on years of RN experience.

Required Qualifications

• Graduate of nursing school
• 1 year clinical experience (RNs with less than 12 months experience will complete the new grad requirements)
• California Registered Nurse (RN) license
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare)
• ACLS Certification (Advanced Cardiac Life Support)
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

Responsibilities

• Uses systematic planning, appropriate methods and timely exchange of information with multidisciplinary team and patient/family to coordinate care
• Demonstrates ability to focus on and manage multiple patient needs and aspects of care
• Actively communicates with care team to plan patient care
• Utilizes available resources to problem-solve and determine most effective approach to action
• 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
• Identifies actual/potential problems for which the patient is at risk
• Continuously evaluates interventions and care, and adjusts the plan as patient and family needs change
• Identifies need for referrals based on information obtained in initial and ongoing assessments and evaluation
• Collaborates with patient, family and other team members to develop a comprehensive plan of care
• Prioritizes demand for resources and collaborates with others to meet individualized patient needs
• Acts as preceptor/teacher in guiding other nurses on how to apply the nursing process with a particular unit population
• Makes appropriate referrals based on information obtained in initial and ongoing assessments and evaluation
• Implements safe, therapeutic and efficient care for patients with complex needs due to multi-system disease and/or complications of treatment
• Demonstrates accountability for achieving patient outcomes
• Demonstrates an ability to quickly recognize a patient diagnosis even though presenting symptoms or situations may be dissimilar
• Documents per department/entity guidelines of care and policies and procedures
• Delegates/assigns and communicates expectations for care delivery processes to each member of the team
• Assesses appropriateness of physician orders and questions physician when appropriate
• Helps coworkers improve performance
• Provides positive feedback to others
• Provides unit specific information to students, floats, travelers/registry personnel and documents appropriately
• Provides incidental teaching to members of the team
• Looks for and applies ways to improve work processes and systems
• Offers and accepts constructive feedback/criticism in a non-judgmental, positive and confidential manner
• Seeks out opportunities to assist and support coworkers
• Establishes a therapeutic relationship with patient and family
• Anticipates problems to establishing/maintaining a therapeutic relationship with a specific patient and takes actions to enhance quality of nurse/patient/family interaction
• Analyzes social/cultural variables and adapts nursing interventions to meet diverse needs
• Serves as a patient advocate through actions such as removing obstacles, identifying and supporting appropriate needs and wants; interpreting for patient to physician and vice versa
• Provides age appropriate patient education that facilitates recovery, self-care, end-of-life care and health maintenance, health promotion, and wellness
• Coordinates transfer and discharge planning and teaching in collaboration with other members of the health care team
• Collaborates with other team members to identify, develop and/or revise patient education materials
• Demonstrates flexibility to teaching based on assessment of learner's needs and the integration of adult learning principles

Benefits

• New hire relocation assistance: $5,000 (must be relocating from 100+ miles outside of San Diego)
• Employee referral bonus: $2,500