Specialty Unit Staff RN - Hospital - Per Diem Nights

Essential Responsibilities

• Leadership: Upholds KP Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable laws; serves as leader of health care team, delegates tasks appropriately, demonstrates accountability; champions new ideas; leads through change process; utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation; participates in problem identification and resolution; mentors, orients, and coaches others; shares responsibility and holds subordinates accountable; problem solves with other departments; prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments; complies with regulatory requirements and standards of practice.
• Nursing Process: Develops and/or contributes to individualized plan of care reflecting assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating outcomes; ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education and is reflective of admission/outpatient database, ongoing findings, age-appropriate care, cultural needs, and acuity; discusses plan with patient/family and completes in timely manner; monitors patient progress and revises plan based on condition/evaluation; ensures care meets standards of practice; develops and completes discharge plan including barriers and patient/family education; ensures patient understands discharge instructions; in outpatient, identifies barriers and needs for education facilitating outpatient management plan; ensures patient safety related to medications/procedures (five rights), falls, decubitus prevention, and nosocomial infection prevention; ensures optimal pain control and comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties/fears/concerns; ensures patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in hospital and at discharge.
• Documentation: Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed; reflects nursing process, interventions, and evaluations; utilizes computer systems effectively.
• Clinical Outcomes: Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and team members; demonstrates competencies during probationary period and ongoing via departmental competency validation; makes comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations; participates in departmental performance improvement activities (planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, improving).
• Workplace Safety: Adheres to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices; applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others.
• Patient Care Experience: Practices customer service standards; promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests; makes appropriate referrals and facilitates resource utilization; maintains patient confidentiality; ensures clean, orderly, functional environment; treats patients and families with courtesy, respect, kindness, and compassion; provides optimal experience by active listening and meeting identified needs; gives information patients can understand and ensures comprehension; exceeds member expectations.
• Team Commitment: Viewed as effective, flexible, cooperative team member willing to assist others; confronts difficult/conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance; takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism; acts as resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members; attends mandatory meetings, in-services, staff meetings, and actively participates in departmental professional development; participates in assessment of unit learning needs and development of annual education plan; keeps self informed and makes recommendations for change; adheres to Attendance Program; reports promptly and is present for report at beginning of shift; supports collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.
• Fiscal Responsibility: Organizes work to minimize overtime; identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction; utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to maximum potential.

Qualifications

• Experience: 1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in a Critical Care, DOU or SDU setting, or successful completion of a KP Critical Care, DOU or SDU course (as unit appropriate) or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.
• License, Certification, Registration: Registered Nurse License (California); Basic Life Support; Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
• Additional Requirements: Basic Arrhythmia course required; Ventilator training required.

Pay & Schedule

• Pay Range: $69.95 – $95.98 / hour
• Schedule: Per Diem, Night shift; if twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:15 pm–7:45 am; back up 8-hour shift will be 11:15 pm–7:45 am.
• Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun