National Resident RN

Job Summary

As our National Resident RN, you will experience a dynamic and supportive residency, receiving personalized attention to foster long-term success and cross-training across our interconnected Nursing units. Every day you will deliver individualized patient care by collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary teams, administering treatments, monitoring vital signs, and educating patients and families, all while embracing varied nursing tasks.

Responsibilities

• Delivers individualized patient care by collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary teams.
• Administers treatments, monitors vital signs, and educates patients and families.
• Learns to collaborate and communicate with the inter-professional team to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and the achievement of desired patient outcomes.
• Develops accountability for own practice, delegated care, and the coordination of care delivery.
• Behaves in a manner that supports colleagues, and maintains respect, trust and dignity.
• Utilizes clinical orientation, practice, and mentor-ship to build skills to utilize current evidence based practice knowledge, the nursing process, critical thinking and problem solving skills to provide holistic care to individuals across the lifespan and care continuum.
• Ensures that the patient/customer perspective is a driving force behind our actions and business decisions; crafting and implementing service practices that meet patients'/customers’ and own organization’s needs.
• Assumes responsibility for the professional development of self.
• Acquires and maintains knowledge in nursing practice.
• Continuously learns and grows, seeking performance feedback and identifying approaches to improve one's own performance and that of others.
• Applies the operating principles, major issues, governmental regulations, and code of ethics for the healthcare industry to healthcare related situations.
• Provides clinical skills necessary for patient care, such as history taking, therapeutic planning and monitoring, etc., to achieve optimized outcomes in medication therapy and clinical treatment.

Requirements

• Required: Associates of Science Nursing and 0-12 months of professional nursing (RN) experience, upon hire.
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire.
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's of Science Nursing preferred.

Benefits

Founded in 1941, Dignity Health - Dominican Hospital is a 188-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Cruz, California. Serving over 80,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, orthopedics, and a Family Birthing Center. Additionally, Dominican Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has been awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care.

Pay

$72.86 - $92.99 /hour