Registered Nurse (RN) - Float Pool Med Surg Per Diem Days
About the role
Join our dedicated healthcare team where compassion meets innovation! As a Registered Nurse with us, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in patients' lives while enjoying a supportive work environment that fosters professional growth and work-life balance. Ready to be a vital part of our mission? Apply today and bring your passion for nursing to a place where it truly matters!
Job Summary
Job type: Per Diem
Shift: Days
Hours: The Clinical Nurse assumes principal responsibility for the total nursing care, assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation of each assigned patient.
Responsibilities
- Ability to care for patients on telemetry monitoring including strip interpretation
- Knowledge and ability to care for neurologically compromised patients; ability to care for pre and post -op orthopedic patients
- Knowledge and ability to care for combative or psychologically impaired patients
- Specialty units: ICU; NICU; ER; Labor and Delivery; Peds – additional competencies will be required and orientation will be tailored to the specific units
- Additional certifications may be necessary
- Demonstrates knowledge of growth and development
- Obtains information and interpret information in terms of the patient’s needs
- Understands the range of treatment needed as appropriate to the ages of the patients served
- Maintains unit’s competencies
- Initiates interdisciplinary communications and incorporates recommendations
- Acts as a consultant in complex patient care
- Utilizes current theories and knowledge for accurate assessments and evaluations
- Completes acuity evaluation on all assigned patients according to unit protocol
- Consistently functions proficiently on the nursing unit. Including but not limited to: Manages an average caseload specific to unit
- Adapts to altered work patterns, sets priorities, and modifies assignments to meet patient needs utilizing available resources and staff ability and availability
- Administers medications prescribed by physicians according to policy, including IV’s, blood and blood products
- Knows actions, indications, contraindications, precautions, adverse reactions, dosage and route of administration on all drugs before administering to patient
- Verifies against MAR for accuracy on an ongoing basis
- Maintains competence in nursing practice through in services and participation in ongoing continuing education per year
Qualifications
- PCU RN Required
- Current CA Registered Nurse License
- Associate Degree in Nursing - ADN (G70AK)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing - BSN (G70AD)
- Current American Heart Association BLS and ACLS certification (maintain current at all times)
- Effective verbal and written skills to communicate with people on all levels and able to maintain positive working relationships with parents, families, and co-workers
- Possess active listening skills
- Compassionate and non-judgmental care giver and advocate
- Able to independently manage multiple priorities
- Must comply with Respiratory Fit Testing Protection Policy
- Must successfully complete EKG test within the first 30 days of hire
Benefits
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status
Pay
$67.1144 hourly
Schedule
Per Diem
NIHSS Organization Description
Desert Care Network serves the healthcare needs of the Coachella Valley and Morongo Basin regions in Southern California with three hospitals Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, JFK Memorial Hospital in Indio and Hi-Desert Medical Center in Joshua Tree. The hospital network provides advanced care with services such as comprehensive stroke care, a cancer center, a Level 1 Trauma Center and the only Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the Coachella Valley. Desert Care Network is committed to healthcare equality. Join our team!
Employment Practices
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