Seasonal RN Program - MST

About the role

This position represents 4 openings. The Registered Nurse serves as a leader of the health care team, delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates accountability. The role involves leadership, delegation, and adherence to policies and procedures.

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.
• 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.
• 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 departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.
• Adheres to 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.
• Makes comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.
• Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.
• Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
• Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
• Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed. Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken. Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.
• Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.
• Completes the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.
• Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime. Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
• Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.

Requirements

• Minimum six (6) months of experience required in an acute or sub-acute facility within the last three (3) years.
• Completion of RN Program.
• Registered Nurse License (California).
• Basic Life Support.

Qualifications

• N/A

Skills

• Leadership
• Delegation
• Accountability
• Communication
• Problem-solving
• Teamwork
• Documentation
• Comprehensive decision-making
• Patient safety
• Optimal pain control
• Discharge planning
• Computer systems utilization
• Performance improvement
• Fiscal responsibility

Benefits

N/A

Pay

$67.25 - $71.29 / hour

Schedule

Part-time, Day Shift, Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, 07:00 AM - 07:30 PM