Staff RN - Hospital (Pediatrics)

Job Summary

The Registered Nurse leads the health care team, providing professional nursing care according to established standards, policies, and procedures. The role involves demonstrating leadership, maintaining flexibility, and treating all team members with dignity and respect.

Essential Responsibilities

• Upholds Kaiser Permanente’s policies and procedures, and applicable state and federal laws.

• Serves as a leader of the health care team, delegating tasks appropriately and holding team members accountable.

• Understands and supports the scope of practice for both the nurse and team members, escalating issues as necessary.

• Communicates effectively using various strategies, including the chain of command and issue escalation, to achieve intended outcomes.

• Participates in problem identification and resolution, mentoring, orienting, and coaching others.

• Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds them accountable for performance.

• Collaborates with other departments to assist in resolving member problems.

• Properly prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments to ensure completion of patient care activities.

• Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.

• Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care, reflecting assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the plan.

• Maintains the plan based on patient condition and evaluation of progress, ensuring it meets standards of practice.

• Ensures patient safety related to medications and procedures, adhering to the five rights, patient falls, decubitus prevention, and nosocomial infections.

• Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort, discussing anxieties, fears, or concerns with patients and families.

• Ensures patients clearly understand discharge instructions and provide education for outpatient medical management plans.

• Documents charting accurately, legibly, dated, and timed, reflecting the nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken.

• Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.

• Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the healthcare team.

• Completes 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, 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.

• Prompts answers to call lights, alarms, and patient requests, facilitates the customer's ability to utilize resources, and maintains patient confidentiality.

• Maintains and protects a clean, orderly, and functional work environment, treats families with courtesy, respect, kindness, and compassion, and provides an optimal patient care experience.

• Actively listens to the needs of patients and family members, takes responsibility for meeting those needs, and gives patients information in a way they can understand.

• Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members' expectations.

• Acts as an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others, confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively, and accepts constructive criticism.

• Prepares for and attends all mandatory meetings, in-services, and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development.

• Assesses current and future unit learning needs and develops an annual education plan.

• Keeps self-informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.

• Adheres to the attendance program, reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at the start of the assigned shift, and 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, and utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.

Basic Qualifications

• 1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in acute care Pediatrics or successful completion of a KP acute care Pediatric training program or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.
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Preferred Qualifications

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