Clinical Nurse (RN), ICU Cardiothoracic Surgery (J2) - 12HR Nights .90

Stanford Health Care

86d • $92 - $106

About The Position

If you're ready to be part of our legacy of hope and innovation, we encourage you to take the first step and explore our current job openings. Your best is waiting to be discovered. Night - 12 Hour (United States of America) Stanford Nurses are recognized as bold leaders, compassionate healers, educators, and mentors, providing the highest standards of excellence in care while generating long-term impressions that continue to set SHC apart as the best place to work and thrive. Stanford Nursing offers a wide array of career advancement opportunities, access to the latest technologies and health care innovations, and boasts a workplace culture that encourages personal growth and work-life balance, while honoring its commitment to delivering evidence-based and patient-centered care. ANCC Magnet Designation: The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Model provides a framework for clinical, operational, and leadership practice, serving as a roadmap for Stanford Nursing's ongoing pursuit toward nursing excellence. Watson Caring Science: Beginning in 2007, SHC embraced Jean Watson's transformative "Caring Science" theory of human caring and love. This intertwining of "Caring Science" with nursing practice translates into increased intentionality and a deepening of authentic presence; thereby renewing nurse relationships through universal, ethical, and person-centered care. Why Join our J2 ICU Team? J2 ICU is a Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit of Stanford Health Care. This is a 24-bed state of the art patient and family centric unit. It serves a diverse group of critically ill patients with complex clinical problems. Nurses on this unit are trained to care for a variety of medical and surgical conditions utilizing a broad range of specialized skills, procedures and devices in a dynamic environment of an innovative world class teaching institution.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited college or university preferred.
• Able to communicate effectively in English.
• Two (2) years of Cardiovascular ICU experience.
• American Heart Association Certification for Basic Life Support (BLS).
• American Heart Association Certification for Advanced Life Support (ACLS).
• California Registered Nurse (RN) license.

Responsibilities

• Establishes Therapeutic Relationships: Creates and maintains a climate conducive to healing through being present to the patient and family, identifying and managing discomforts; providing emotional support and information; guiding the patient and family through phases of illness and recovery/passage to death and in accordance with the patient's goals and culture.
• Mobilizes the patient's strengths and abilities towards participation in recovery and control over plan of care.
• Obtains accurate and relevant assessment data and interprets the data as normal vs abnormal.
• Determines nursing diagnosis.
• Monitors and evaluates data as frequently as needed based on stability.
• Collaborates with the patient, family and members of health care team to develop an individualized plan of care.
• Implements nursing and medical interventions safely.
• Evaluates effectiveness of interventions and monitors patient for adverse responses and side effects.
• Assesses a patient's and family's learning needs and readiness to learn.
• Teaches needed information for self-care and illness prevention.
• Adjusts information and expectations based on responses from patient, developmental levels, physiological and psychological condition, and cultural variations.
• Identifies the need for and activates emergency protocols.
• Monitors own practices and assists in monitoring others for practices related to patient and employee safety and compliance to standards and policies.
• Integrates multiple requests and work expectations by setting priorities, delegating tasks appropriately, and seeking assistance as needed.
• Contributes to team building through participation in unit programs and meetings; contributes to positive morale, using constructive and effective conflict resolution skills.
• Learns and utilizes the available technology for communication, documentation, and locating information regarding unusual clinical situations, diagnosis, and treatments.
• Contributes to the knowledge and skill of other members of the nursing staff through one or more activities such as formal or informal teaching, participation on Shared Governance groups, professional publications and/or presentations.
• Demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.
• Evaluates own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations.

Benefits

• Career advancement opportunities.
• Access to the latest technologies and health care innovations.
• Workplace culture that encourages personal growth and work-life balance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees