Sp Unit Staff RN - LABOR & DELIVERY

Job Summary

The Registered Nurse leads the health care team, providing professional nursing care according to established standards, policies, and procedures. Demonstrating performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan.

About the Role

Provides leadership to the health care team, delegating tasks appropriately and demonstrating accountability. Upholds Kaiser Permanente’s policies and procedures, principles of responsibilities, and applicable state, federal, and local laws.

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.
• 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 them 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Prompts answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests; makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers 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; gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension; provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
• Works collaboratively with the team; 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.
• 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 L & D, or successful completion of a KP L&D course (which includes basic fetal monitoring and NRP) or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.
• Registered Nurse License (California).
• Basic Life Support from American Heart Association.
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support.

Qualifications

• N/A

Skills

• Leadership
• Nursing Process
• Documentation
• Workplace Safety
• Teamwork
• Fiscal Responsibility

Benefits

N/A

Pay

$69.95 - $95.98 / hour

Schedule

Per Diem