Specialty Unit Staff RN - PICU/Downey

Job Summary

The Registered Nurse leads the health care team, providing professional nursing care according to established standards, policies, and procedures.

About the Role

Provides leadership to the health care team, delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates accountability. Upholds Kaiser Permanente’s policies and procedures, and respects all members of the health care team.

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.
• 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. 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.
• Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development.
• 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 PICU, or successful completion of a KP PICU course or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.
• Registered Nurse License (California).
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support.

Qualifications

• N/A

Skills

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

Benefits

N/A

Pay

$58.29 - $79.98 / hour

Schedule

8-hour shift, 7:15 am - 3:45 pm