Sp Unit Staff RN - Hospital (NICU)

About the role

The Sp Unit Staff RN - Hospital (NICU) leads the health care team, providing professional nursing care according to established standards, policies, and procedures. This position requires proficiency in the nursing process, leadership, and adherence to regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Upholds Kaiser Permanente’s policies and procedures, principles of responsibilities, and applicable state, federal, and local laws.
• Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates accountability.
• Understands own and team members’ scope of practice and escalates issues as necessary.
• 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; shares responsibility and authority with subordinates; and collaborates with other departments to assist in member problem resolution.
• 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; monitors the patient’s progress based on the plan; revises plan on an ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress; ensures care meets standards of practice; ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education; ensures patient clearly understands discharge instructions; in outpatient, identifies barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan; 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 patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
• 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.
• Discuss patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the healthcare team; demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation; 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; promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests; makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customer’s ability to utilize resources; maintains and protects patient confidentiality; ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment; 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.
• Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others; confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance; takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism; acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members; attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development (Requirement may vary for per diem staff); participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan; keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change; adheres to Attendance Program; reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift; supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.
• 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

• 1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in Level III NICU or successful completion of KP Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) course or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.
• Registered Nurse License (California).
• Basic Life Support.

Qualifications

• May be expected to cross train to at least 1 other Perinatal area.

Skills

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

Benefits

We offer several benefits to our nurses, including:

• Opportunities for lifelong learning to expand knowledge and better serve members.
• A culture of compassion, integrity, trust, and open communication.
• Opportunities for growth and development.
• Flexible schedules to accommodate personal commitments.

Pay

Details on pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

The job schedule is Full-time, with a Shift of Night.