Seasonal RN Program - ICU/CCU

About the role

This position represents 5 openings. As the leader of the health care team, the Registered Nurse provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. The role adheres to Kaiser Permanente's Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
• Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
• Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.
• Champions new ideas.
• Leads and directs others through the change process.
• Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
• Participates in problem identification and resolution.
• Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities.
• Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.
• Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
• Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
• Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
• Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
• Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
• Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
• Makes comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.
• Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.
• Adheres to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.
• Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others.
• Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
• Maintains and protects patient confidentiality.
• Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
• Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
• Works every other weekend and some holidays.

Qualifications

• 1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in Critical Care, or successful completion of a KP-approved Critical Care course within prior 12 months.
• Completion of RN Program.
• Registered Nurse License (California).

Skills

• Collaborative
• Compassionate
• Flexible
• Leadership
• Socially Conscientious
• Trustworthy

Benefits

We offer several benefits to our nurses, including:

• Opportunities for lifelong learning.
• Rooted in research and evidence-based care.
• Reflects the rich diversity of our members and communities.
• Highly skilled professionals who exemplify leadership, critical thinking, and collaborative problem solving.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

Full-time

Start Date

September 14, 2026 - February 21, 2027

Notes

• May be Part-Time or Full-Time, Day or Night Shift
• May be cancelled, but no more than five (5) times during the temporary obligation.
• Is guaranteed one major holiday off during the assignment, but is obligated to work all others, if needed.
• Will be required to work every other weekend and some holidays.