Staff RN - Hospital Y1 - MST - Full Time Nights

About the role

As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization. Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect.

Responsibilities

• Leadership: Upholds KP Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable laws. Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately and demonstrates 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 operations and patient care activities. Shares responsibility and authority and holds subordinates accountable. Problem-solves with other departments for member resolution. Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments to ensure completion of patient care activities. Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
• Nursing Process: Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care reflecting assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluation. Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education. Ensures plan reflects 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 based on plan. Revises plan based on condition and 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 to facilitate medical management. Ensures patient safety related to medications (five rights), falls, decubitus prevention, and nosocomial infection prevention. Ensures optimal pain control and comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears, or concerns regarding condition, treatment, or discharge. 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 and efficiently for optimal patient care.
• Clinical Outcomes: Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and team members. Demonstrates competencies during probationary period and ongoing via departmental 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 as defined by Service Area, Medical Center, and department. Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests. Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates resource utilization. Maintains and protects patient confidentiality. Ensures clean, orderly, functional work environment. Treats all families with courtesy, respect, kindness, and compassion. Provides optimal experience by actively listening and taking responsibility for meeting identified needs. Gives information patients can understand and ensures comprehension. Provides care that exceeds member expectations.
• Team Commitment: Viewed as effective, flexible, cooperative team member willing to assist. Confronts difficult situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance. Takes accountability and accepts constructive criticism. Acts as resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members. Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services, and staff meetings; actively participates in professional development. Participates in assessment of unit learning needs and development of annual education plan. Keeps informed of unit activities and makes recommendations for change. Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports promptly, present and available for report at shift start. Supports collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit-based teams.
• Fiscal Responsibility: Organizes work to minimize overtime. Identifies and assists in systems improvement needing simplification or correction. Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to maximum potential.

Qualifications

• Experience: Minimum six (6) months of experience required in an acute or sub-acute facility within the last three (3) years.
• License, Certification, Registration: Registered Nurse License (California); Basic Life Support from American Heart Association.

Pay & Schedule

• Pay range: $56.04 - $76.9 / hour
• Schedule: Full-time, 36 hours/week, Night shift (7:15 pm–7:45 am). If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:15 pm–7:45 am; back up 8 hour shift will be 23:15–7:45.
• Workdays: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat