Per Diem RN - SRN C4 Behavioral Unit Float Pool - NIGHT
About The Position
Provides direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families in the SRN C4 Behavioral Unit Float Pool. Independently performs the nursing process through individualized assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of safe, therapeutic, and efficient care throughout the continuum of care. Provides care for patients with complex needs, recognizes potential complications, prioritizes workload, and coordinates care with other members of the health care team. May serve as relief charge nurse, preceptor, or teacher for staff, students, and other nurses. This is a per diem night-shift position with shifts from 7:00 PM to 7:30 AM and an AWS requirement of 12 hours per shift, 36 hours per schedule period. Weekend work is required every other weekend; on-call is not required. The hourly pay range is $64.210–$93.760, with placement based on years of RN experience and the applicable collective bargaining agreement.
Requirements
- Graduate of a nursing school.
- Three years of clinical experience.
- California Registered Nurse (RN) license from the California Board of Registered Nursing.
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professionals (AHA BLS Healthcare) certification.
- Sharp Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) Training (Security).
Responsibilities
- Provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.
- Independently assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized nursing care consistent with unit standards and current safety standards.
- Provide safe, therapeutic, and efficient nursing care, including for patients with complex needs related to multisystem disease or treatment complications.
- Delegate and assign care tasks appropriately, communicate expectations, determine required supervision, and follow up to ensure delegated tasks are completed.
- Assess physician orders for appropriateness and question physicians when appropriate.
- Document care comprehensively and in accordance with department guidelines, policies, and procedures; serve as a resource for unit-specific documentation issues.
- Establish therapeutic relationships with patients and families, adapt care to social and cultural variables, and advocate for patients.
- Provide age-appropriate patient and family education, including education related to recovery, self-care, end-of-life care, health maintenance, health promotion, and wellness.
- Coordinate transfer and discharge planning and teaching with the health care team.
- Collaborate with patients, families, and team members to develop and revise comprehensive plans of care and patient education materials.
- Coordinate care through systematic planning and timely communication with the multidisciplinary team and patients or families.
- Identify actual and potential patient problems, evaluate interventions, adjust care plans as needs change, and make appropriate referrals.
- Prioritize resources and collaborate with others to meet individualized patient needs and achieve patient outcomes.
- Recognize patient diagnoses and potential complications, including when symptoms or situations are dissimilar.
- Support coworkers, provide constructive feedback, help improve performance, and share unit-specific information with students, float staff, travelers, and registry personnel.
- Teach and guide other nurses in applying the nursing process to the unit’s patient population; may serve as a preceptor, relief charge nurse, or teacher.
- Use equipment and medications safely, consult others when unfamiliar, and seek ways to improve work processes and systems.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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