Per Diem RN - Subacute Care - Sharp Coronado - Day - 8 hour - Per Diem

Shift: 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM, 8-hour shifts under an 8/80 schedule. Weekends required every other week. No on-call duty.

Pay

Hourly pay range: $61.74 – $90.16. The scale is set by the collective bargaining agreement between Sharp HealthCare and the Sharp Professional Nurses Network (UNAC/UHCP, NUHHCE, AFSCME, AFL-CIO). Placement within the range is based on years of RN experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.
• Delegate and assign care tasks, communicating clear expectations to each team member; analyze situations to determine appropriate supervision levels (unsupervised, initial direction, periodic inspection, continuous supervision, or non-delegable).
• Assess the appropriateness of physician orders and question when necessary.
• Document care per department guidelines, ensuring comprehensive, concise, and critical-thinking-oriented records.
• Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and families, addressing spiritual, cultural, language, or illness-related barriers; serve as a patient advocate by removing obstacles and interpreting needs.
• Support coworkers by offering assistance, providing positive feedback, sharing unit-specific information with students/floats/travelers, and accepting constructive feedback non-judgmentally.
• Provide age-appropriate patient education to facilitate recovery, self-care, end-of-life care, health maintenance, and wellness; coordinate transfer/discharge planning and teaching with the healthcare team.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to plan, coordinate, and communicate patient care using systematic planning and timely information exchange.
• Utilize the nursing process and critical thinking to deliver individualized, goal-directed care that integrates mind, body, and spirit; continuously evaluate and adjust care plans based on patient/family needs.
• Identify actual/potential problems, prioritize resource demands, and make appropriate referrals based on assessments.
• Implement safe, therapeutic, and efficient care for patients with complex needs due to multi-system disease or treatment complications.
• Demonstrate accountability for achieving patient outcomes and act as a preceptor/teacher for other nurses.

Requirements

• Graduate of a nursing school.
• 2 years of clinical experience.
• Active California Registered Nurse (RN) license – CA Board of Registered Nursing.
• Current AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professionals (BLS) certification.

Skills

• Independently perform the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation) for patients with overt and subtle needs across the care continuum.
• Provide safe nursing care in complex situations with some assistance/supervision; demonstrate competency in unit-specific and some advanced skills.
• Coordinate care administered by other team members; may assume relief charge nurse responsibilities and assist with preceptorship/professional development of new nurses/students.
• Use common equipment and medications safely; consult others when unfamiliar and recognize/manage potential complications.
• Demonstrate consistent organization and prioritization of workload.