Staff RN ICU Panorama City - available positions, shifts, and schedules vary
Company: Kaiser
Location: San Gabriel
Posted on: March 13, 2023
Job Description:
Applying to this position is the first step to obtaining an
acute care (inpatient) nursing position at one of Kaiser
Permanente's 21 hospitals in Northern California.
Applying to this position begins an external hiring process that
streamlines and expedites hiring for nurses who do not already work
at Kaiser Permanente.
This is only for benefitted part-time and full-time positions (20+
hours per week); for positions less than 20 hour a week please
search for open opportunities on our career website.
Next Steps to Bring Your Nursing Practice to Kaiser Permanente:
- Apply to this position to express interest in a career at the
medical center listed in the title of this job
- After you apply, Talent Acquisition will reach out and provide
you with a link to complete short questionnaire and a required
virtual on-demand interview that will replace the traditional
interview process.
- The hiring manager will review information you provide on the
questionnaire, as well as virtual interview, and will contact
you
- If selected, you will be contacted by Talent Acquisition with
an overview of the final steps in the hiring process and shortly
after you will receive an electronic offer letter
Kaiser Permanente RNs: This position only supports hiring for
external candidates who do not already work as a Registered Nurse
at Kaiser Permanente. If you are a current employee, please visit
the employees' careers website at employees.kaiserpermanetejobs.org
for a complete listing of available positions and to submit
interest.
Sign On Bonus eligible!
Full-Time $6,000 and Part-Time $3,000 (OR, PACU, DOU, ICU, L&D,
NICU, PICU) and Full-Time $4,000 and Part-Time $2,000 (Med/Surg,
Med/Tele, Peds, FCC/Mom Baby)
Employee Referral eligible Full-Time $4,000 and Part-Time
$2,000
Job Summary:
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.
Essential Responsibilities:
The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the
following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
Leadership:
- Upholds Kaiser Permanentes 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.
Nursing Process:
- 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.
- Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.
- Revises plan on 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.
Documentation:
- Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.
- Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and
evaluations taken.
- Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for
optimal patient care.
Clinical Outcomes:
- Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with
physicians and other members of the health care team.
- Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and
ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.
- Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of
data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.
- Participates in departmental performance improvement
activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and
improving.
Workplace Safety:
- Adherence 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 the Service
Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
- Promptly answers 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.
Team Commitment:
- Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is
flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
- Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and
seeks appropriate assistance.
- Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive
criticism.
- Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees,
registry, students, and other team members.
- Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings
as required, actively participates in other departmental
professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem
staff).
- 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.
Fiscal Responsibility
- 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.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
- 1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent
experience in Critical Care, or successful completion of a KP
Critical Care course or approved equivalent within prior 12
months.
Education
- N/A
License, Certification, Registration
- Registered Nurse License (California)
- Basic Life Support from American Heart Association
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Additional Requirements:
- N/A
Preferred Qualifications:
- N/A
Job Schedule:
Job Category: Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
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