RN (ED) - Loan Forgiveness - Full Time, Nights (Culver City)

Specially trained to provide prompt response and treatment for patients with life-threatening, emergent, or urgent medical needs. Provides monitoring and therapeutic equipment necessary for specialized nursing care to acute or complex patients. Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement a plan of care for assigned patients, ensuring coordination between disciplines, physicians, and support staff.

Responsibilities

• Provides patient care, reviews and administers medications, including intravenous titrations, invasive and arterial lines, cardiac monitoring, ventilator management, treatments, and procedures in a safe, effective, and age-appropriate manner.
• Recognizes changes in patient clinical conditions, takes appropriate action, and documents interventions.
• Responds appropriately to Rapid Response Team (RRT), Code Blues, and Code Whites as assigned.
• Collaborates with the healthcare team to intervene and advocate for patients as necessary.
• Intervenes in instances of abuse, assault, or neglect, or when adequate financial or social resources are unavailable, making appropriate referrals.
• Develops long and short-term goals consistent with treatment plans, standards of practice, and patient preferences, discussing the plan of care with the patient.
• Utilizes pain management resources and other interventions to provide pain relief.
• Performs ongoing assessments and documents the patient's physical and psychosocial condition, as well as response to care.
• Reviews patient test results, identifies critical results, and communicates them in a timely manner, correlating information into the plan of care.
• Ensures nursing practice is evidence-based, within scope of licensure, and compliant with hospital-wide standards, including core measures, infection control, and HIPAA.
• Collaborates with staff, physicians, and healthcare team members to ensure efficient emergency department throughput.
• Supervises, monitors, and delegates patient care activities to appropriate team members, providing leadership to ensure safe and high-quality care.
• Acts as a resource, providing information, guidance, and education about treatment plans, care plans, and medications.
• Develops and implements accurate teaching and ongoing discharge plans.
• Communicates empathetically with patients and their support systems, demonstrating compassion and cultural sensitivity.
• Engages in caring behaviors, taking ownership of interactions with patients, families, physicians, and coworkers.

Requirements

• Active, current, and unencumbered Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of California.
• Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing.
• AHA Basic Life Support certification.
• Ability to read, write, and communicate effectively in English.
• Ability to work variable shifts, including evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Ability to maintain flexibility and composure in a constantly changing environment.
• Hospital Fire and Life Safety Card (Los Angeles City Employees only).
• AHA Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification.
• AHA Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification.
• One year of previous emergency nursing experience or completion of an emergency department training course (including EMTALA and ESI 5-level triage within the first six months of employment).
• De-escalation certification upon hire; SAMA Certification required upon recertification.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
• Bilingual skills to communicate effectively with patients and families.
• SAMA Certification upon hire.
• Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN).

Physical Requirements

• Standing: Constantly
• Walking: Constantly
• Sitting: Occasionally
• Reaching with Hands and Arms: Constantly
• Climb or Balance: Frequently
• Stooping, Kneeling, Crouching, or Crawling: Occasionally
• Talking: Frequently
• Hearing: Constantly
• Seeing: Constantly
• Performing repetitive motions with arms or hands: Constantly
• Lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling up to 10 lbs: Constantly
• Lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling up to 25 lbs: Frequently
• Lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling up to 50 lbs: Frequently
• Lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling greater than 50 lbs: Frequently
• Driving: None

Pay

Base Rate: $58.14 - $81.39 per hour (8-hour average).

Pay Rate: $67.83 - $94.96 per hour (12-hour rate, calculated by averaging 8 hours at base rate and 4 hours of overtime).

$25,000 Sign-on Bonus for eligible candidates with one or more years of acute care RN hospital experience. Bonus paid in increments over 24 months to active employees in good standing.