Temporary Seasonal Emergency Department RN - San Diego Medical Center

About the role

The Temporary Seasonal Emergency Department RN at San Diego Medical Center is a leader of the health care team providing professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. This position is a temporary seasonal position, non-benefited with a commitment duration of 5 months from date of hire.

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.
• Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately 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 that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
• Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
• Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
• Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
• Makes sure the patient's progress is monitored based on the plan.
• Revises plan on an ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
• Ensures care meets standards of practice.
• Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education.
• Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
• Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.
• Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
• Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
• Prompts answers to call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
• Makes appropriate referrals and 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.

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 from American Heart Association.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support.

Qualifications

• Will be required to work every other weekend and some holidays.

Skills

• Collaborative
• Compassionate
• Flexible
• Leadership
• Socially Conscientious
• Trustworthy

Benefits

We offer several benefits to our nurses, including:

• Lifelong learning opportunities.
• Opportunities for growth and development.
• Empowerment to take control of your future.

Pay

This position is a temporary seasonal position, non-benefited with a commitment duration of 5 months from date of hire.

Schedule

Full-time, Shift: Day

Notes

• Will be required to work every other weekend and some holidays.
• This is a temporary position-noted required hours of work. FT or PT non-benefited, commitment of 5 months from date of hire.