RN Specialty Training (ED) - Full Time, Days (Norwalk)

Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement a plan of care for a specific group of assigned patients, ensuring coordination of care between other disciplines, physicians, and support staff. Performs professional nursing duties that incorporate psychosocial, psychomotor, and age-appropriate cognitive skills to assess, plan, intervene, and advocate for the patient on an ongoing basis throughout the continuum of care. Reevaluates patient response and outcomes, effectiveness of the plan of care, and readiness for discharge, revising the plan or making referrals as necessary.

Responsibilities

• Professional Clinical Practice:
  • Provides patient care, reviews and administers patient medications, treatments, and procedures in a safe, effective, and age-appropriate manner that meets scope of practice and standards of nursing practice.
  • Recognizes changes in patient's clinical conditions, taking appropriate action and documenting intervention.
  • Effectively collaborates with the healthcare team to intervene and advocate as necessary.
  • Intervenes appropriately in instances of abuse, assault, or neglect, or when adequate financial or social resources are not available.
  • Makes appropriate referrals to resolve patient issues effectively.
• Plan of Care:
  • Develops long- and short-term goals consistent with treatment plans, standards of practice, and the plan of care, incorporating patient preference and discussing the plan of care with the patient.
  • Appropriately utilizes pain management resources and other interventions to provide pain relief.
  • Provides 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 in a timely manner consistent with the condition of the patient, correlating information into the plan of care.
  • Ensures nursing practice is evidence-based, within scope of licensure, and compliant with hospital-wide standards of nursing care, including core measures.
  • Ensures infection control procedures and HIPAA compliance.
• Collaboration:
  • Collaborates with staff, physicians, and members of the healthcare team, ensuring coordination of care between other disciplines and support staff.
  • Supervises, monitors, and delegates patient care activities to appropriate members of the healthcare team, provides effective leadership, and ensures care is safe and of high quality.
  • Acts as a source of information and articulately responds to questions, providing resources, guidance, and education about the treatment plan, plan of care, and medications.
  • Develops and implements accurate teaching and ongoing discharge plans.
• Communication:
  • Empathizes with patients and patient support systems, expresses compassion and understanding for the situation, and demonstrates care appropriate for age, cultural, religious, gender identity, or ethnic background.
  • Engages in caring behaviors, takes conscious ownership for work, and takes deliberate/thoughtful actions regarding interactions with patients, families, physicians, and co-workers.

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.
• Six months of nursing experience in an acute care setting and acceptance into a unit-specific hospital training program.
• 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).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
• Bilingual skills to communicate effectively with patients and families.

Physical Requirements

These are requirements normally expected to perform regular job duties. Reasonable accommodations may be made in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and applicable state and local law, to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Walking - Constantly
• Standing - 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

Min - $49.60 | Max - $67.70 (calculated average rate of pay for 12 total hours worked, including overtime).