Staff RN - Hospital Y5 - Med Surg Tele - Per Diem Nights

Essential Responsibilities

• Leadership: Upholds KP Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable laws. Serves as leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately and demonstrates accountability. Understands scope of practice for self and team, escalates issues as appropriate. Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior and champions new ideas. Leads and directs others through change. 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. Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds them accountable. Problem-solves with other departments to assist member resolution. Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments to ensure completion of patient care. Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
• Nursing Process: Develops and/or contributes to 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 appropriate acuity. Discusses plan with patient/family/significant others in a timely manner. Monitors patient progress based on plan and revises on ongoing basis. Ensures care meets standards of practice. Ensures effective discharge plan including barriers and patient/family education. Ensures patient understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identifies barriers and needs for patient/family education to facilitate medical management. Ensures patient safety related to medications/procedures (five rights), falls, decubitus prevention, and prevention of nosocomial infections. 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.
• Clinical Outcomes: Discusses patient findings and progress with physicians and team members. Demonstrates competencies during probationary period and ongoing via departmental validation. Makes comprehensive nursing decisions based on 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 and protects patient confidentiality. Ensures clean, orderly, functional environment. Treats all families with courtesy, respect, kindness, and compassion. Actively listens to patients/family needs and takes responsibility for meeting them. Gives information in understandable way 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 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, and staff meetings; actively participates in professional development. Participates in assessment of unit learning needs and annual education plan. Keeps informed of unit activities and recommends change. Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports promptly, present and available for report at shift start. Supports collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment.
• 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.

Basic Qualifications

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

Pay & Schedule

• Pay Range: $67.25 - $92.28 / hour
• 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 11pm to 7am
• Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 1