RN, Outpatient OR On Call

About the role

The RN participates as a member of the health care team in delivering quality health care to patients, supporting Kaiser Permanente’s mission, vision, and values. The RN provides a variety of nursing services both in person and by phone, utilizing the nursing process and leadership skills to address acute and chronic needs of Health Plan members and other patients of the Kaiser Permanente Health Care Program. The RN works under the general direction of the designated supervisor.

Responsibilities

Professional Competencies

• Demonstrates personal commitment to service and socially relevant practice.
• Embodies the KP Promise: quality you can trust, caring with a personal touch, convenient, easy, and affordable.
• Adheres to Quality of Service Standards, Behavioral Guidelines, HIPAA, and confidentiality policies.
• Acts as an advocate for individuals, groups, and communities.
• Maintains ethical and legal behavior in all professional activities.
• Uses critical‑thinking, analytical reasoning, and clinical judgment to solve problems and choose among alternative solutions.
• Provides culturally sensitive care and teaching materials, respecting diverse values, beliefs, and customs.
• Practices health‑care team building, leadership, and mentorship; directs, delegates, and monitors quality of care.
• Collaborates with Team Leader and Manager to set quality standards, develop policies, and evaluate performance of RNs, LPNs, and unlicensed personnel.
• Participates in population‑based care activities, outreach, health education, and self‑management skill development.
• Demonstrates technological literacy, uses computerized information systems for decision support, quality improvement, and professional development, and contributes to system development.
• Engages in continuing education, shares knowledge, and serves as a resource and role model for the team.

Clinical Competencies

• Provides evidence‑based, culturally sensitive nursing care across the care continuum.
• Plans, implements, manages, coordinates, and evaluates patient care plans.
• Utilizes assessment tools, clinical pathways, and guidelines to manage care.
• Performs therapeutic and preventive nursing measures, administers treatments and medications as authorized.
• Executes skilled nursing tasks, operates equipment, and performs triage and telephone advice within Oregon and/or Washington Nurse Practice Acts.
• Maintains a safe, therapeutic environment for staff, patients, and families.
• Documents nursing care in accordance with departmental and organizational standards.
• Applies effective oral and written communication, negotiation, and conflict‑management skills.

Organizational Competencies

• Recognizes the impact of systems on health‑care delivery.
• Facilitates coordination of care across settings, emphasizing transitional needs.
• Functions within interdisciplinary teams to promote coordination, mutual respect, and timely response.
• Advocates for individuals and groups with unmet health needs.
• Applies continuous‑improvement tools to clinical practice and health‑care delivery.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum two (2) years of RN experience in acute care or ambulatory care/clinic setting within the last five (5) years.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience circulating in an inpatient or ambulatory surgery operating room in the past five (5) years.
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• High school diploma or GED required.
• Registered Nurse license in Oregon.
• Basic Life Support certification.

Additional Requirements

• Demonstrated clinical nursing and leadership skills.
• Typing speed of at least 20 words per minute.
• Effective interpersonal, communication, and problem‑solving abilities.
• Willingness to learn computerized information systems.
• Ability to work within teams and a dynamic work environment.
• Customer‑focused attitude.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with population care/case management, triage, and advice.
• Current or future bachelor’s degree in nursing or related field.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of operating‑room circulating and scrubbing experience, with at least two (2) years circulating in an inpatient or ambulatory surgery operating room in the past three (3) years.
• Nurse Operating Room Certificate (US‑CNOR) preferred.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (US‑ACLS) preferred.
• Pre‑operative area skills and IV start skills.

Schedule

Variable days off.