Emergency Room RN - FT Nights

About the role

The Registered Nurse leads the health care team, providing professional nursing care according to established standards, policies, and procedures. They uphold Kaiser Permanente’s policies and principles, demonstrating leadership, flexibility, and professionalism.

Responsibilities

• Upholds Kaiser Permanente’s 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 accountability.
• Understands own and team members’ scope of practice and escalates issues as necessary.
• Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior and champions new ideas.
• 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 them accountable for performance.
• Collaborates with other departments to assist in resolving member problems.
• Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
• Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
• Maintains and monitors the patient’s progress based on the plan.
• Revises the plan on an ongoing basis based on the patient’s condition and evaluation of progress.
• Ensures care meets standards of practice and ensures an effective discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education.
• Ensures patient safety related 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 patients clearly understand discharge instructions.
• Prompts and facilitates patient referrals and resources.
• Maintains and protects patient confidentiality.
• Ensures a 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 needs.
• Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
• Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members' expectations.
• Views others as effective team members who are 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, interns, and other team members.
• Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services, and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development.
• 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.

Requirements

• 6 (six) months recent (within the last 5 years) full-time equivalent in ED or Critical Care, or successful completion of a KP ED training program or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.
• If an inexperienced RN is being considered, and appropriate KP training program has been completed, will consider the following:
  • RN/IPs - new graduates and experienced RNs not meeting above requirements: Candidate must be a graduate of a BRN approved RN program and have completed 768 hours of supervised RN student clinical training.
  • Applicants will be required to successfully complete a Kaiser Permanente Nursing Orientation Program.
  • IP applicants must receive RN license within three (3) months of hire.
• Education: Please refer to Minimum Education section for full Qualifications.
• Experienced RNs: Applicant must have a minimum of one (1) year full-time equivalent experience within the past three (3) years as an RN.
• If an inexperienced RN is being considered, and appropriate KP training program is available, will consider the following:
  • RN/IPs - new graduates and experienced RNs not meeting above requirements: Applicant must be a graduate of a BRN approved RN program and have completed 917 hours of supervised RN student clinical training or as an RN applicant, is an LVN who has graduated from an accredited, licensed vocational nursing program that included supervised clinical student experience and has a minimum of one (1) year of experience as an LVN in the clinical area of RN hire within the past three years or comparable clinical area as defined by the medical facility.
  • Applicants will be required to successfully complete a Kaiser Permanente Nursing Orientation Program.
  • IP applicants must receive RN license within 3 months of hire.
• License, Certification, Registration: Registered Nurse License (California), Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support from American Heart Association, Basic Life Support v

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications: 6 (six) months recent (within the last 5 years) full-time equivalent in ED or Critical Care, or successful completion of a KP ED training program or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.
• Experience: Basic Qualifications: 6 (six) months recent (within the last 5 years) full-time equivalent in ED or Critical Care, or successful completion of a KP ED training program or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.
• Education: Please refer to Minimum Education section for full Qualifications.
• Experienced RNs: Applicable experience within the past three (3) years as an RN.
• Additional Requirements: No information available at this time.

Benefits

No information available at this time.

Pay

$58.29 - $79.98 / hour

Schedule

Full-time, Night Shift, 7:00 PM to 7:30 AM, with a backup 8-hour shift of 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM.

Notes

If twelve (12) hour option chosen; shift will be 7:00 PM to 7:30 AM. Back up 8-hour shift will be 11:00 PM to 7:00 AM.