Specialty Unit Staff RN - Hospital PACU, Variable Shifts and Schedules

About the role

This position is located in the Riverside Service Area and involves leading the health care team in providing professional nursing care in the PACU (Post-Anesthesia Care Unit).

Responsibilities

• Delegates tasks appropriately and demonstrates accountability.
• Champions new ideas and leads the change process.
• Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit-specific operations and patient care activities.
• Ensures the individualized plan of care reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
• Monitors the patient's progress based on the plan and revises it on an ongoing basis.
• Ensures patient safety related 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 their condition, treatment, or discharge.
• Ensures the patient clearly understands discharge instructions and identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears, or concerns regarding their condition, treatment, or discharge.
• Documents accurately, legibly, dated, and timed, reflecting the nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken.
• Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, such as planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.
• Adheres to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices, applies standard precautions, and maintains a safe environment for self and others.
• 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.
• Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit-based teams.

Requirements

• 1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in PACU or Critical Care, or successful completion of a KP PACU course or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.
• Registered Nurse License (California)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support
• The ability to take call within a 30-minute response time.
• If only Critical Care experience, successful completion of didactic and clinical training program will be required.
• Rotates between PACU/SDAU/Preop Coordinator.
• Rotating Weekends

Qualifications

• 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.
• Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services, and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development.
• 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.
• Sustains 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.

Skills

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

Benefits

We offer several benefits to our nurses, including:

• Lifelong learning opportunities to expand knowledge and improve care.
• A culture of compassion, integrity, trust, and open communication.
• Opportunities for growth and development.
• Flexible scheduling options.
• Supportive and collaborative work environment.

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

The job schedule is Full-time with variable shifts and schedules.