Temporary Seasonal Emergency Department RN-OC Anaheim Medical Center-PT Days

About the role

This position represents 6 openings.

Responsibilities

• Upholds Kaiser Permanente’s Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.
• 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. Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
• 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. Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
• 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.
• 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.
• Identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge. Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions.
• Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education.
• Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.
• 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.
• Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development.
• Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
• Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.
• 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

• Minimum one (1) year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in Emergency Department.
• Registered Nurse License (California).
• Basic Life Support Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support.

Qualifications

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Skills

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Benefits

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Pay

$69.95 - $74.15 / hour

Schedule

Every other weekend and some holidays.