RN (Med-Surg) - Loan Forgiveness - Full Time, Days (Culver City) - 10411
About The Position
The Registered Nurse (Med-Surg) collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement a plan of care for assigned patients, coordinating care with other disciplines, physicians, and support staff. The role involves professional nursing duties that incorporate patients’ and families’ psychosocial, psychomotor, and age-appropriate cognitive needs to assess, plan, intervene, and advocate throughout the continuum of care. The nurse reevaluates patient responses and outcomes, the effectiveness of care plans, and readiness for discharge, revising plans or making referrals as needed. The nurse also serves as a role model and mentor to new graduate nurses, orientees, and support staff. The position provides safe, effective, age-appropriate patient care, including reviewing and administering medications, treatments, and procedures; recognizing and responding to changes in clinical condition; developing and documenting plans of care; coordinating with the healthcare team; and supporting patient education and discharge planning. It requires effective communication with patients, families, physicians, and coworkers, while respecting individual cultural, religious, gender identity, and ethnic backgrounds.
Requirements
- Active, current, and unencumbered Registered Nurse licensure in the State of California.
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- AHA Basic Life Support.
- Ability to read, write, and communicate effectively in English.
- Ability to work variable shifts, including evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.
- Ability to maintain flexibility and composure in a constantly changing environment.
- Hospital Fire and Life Safety Card for Los Angeles City employees only.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
- Bilingual skills to communicate effectively with patients and families.
- Recent experience as a Registered Nurse in an acute care setting.
- Certification in the specialty area of practice.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement plans of care for assigned patients in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, incorporating patient preferences and treatment plans.
- Provide safe, effective, and age-appropriate patient care, including reviewing and administering medications, treatments, and procedures within nursing scope and standards.
- Recognize changes in patients’ clinical conditions, take appropriate action, document interventions, and advocate for patients.
- Assess and document patients’ physical and psychosocial conditions and their responses to care; evaluate outcomes, care-plan effectiveness, and discharge readiness.
- Review test results, identify critical results, and communicate them promptly in a manner appropriate to the patient’s condition.
- Use pain-management resources and other interventions to provide pain relief.
- Follow evidence-based nursing practice, hospital standards, core measures, infection-control procedures, and HIPAA requirements.
- Collaborate with staff, physicians, and other healthcare team members to coordinate care.
- Supervise, monitor, and delegate patient-care activities to appropriate healthcare team members while promoting safe, high-quality care.
- Provide information, guidance, resources, and education about treatment plans, plans of care, and medications.
- Develop and implement accurate patient teaching and ongoing discharge plans.
- Intervene and make referrals when patients experience abuse, assault, neglect, or insufficient financial or social resources.
- Communicate with compassion and empathy, taking account of patients’ and families’ age, cultural, religious, gender identity, and ethnic backgrounds.
- Mentor new graduate nurses, orientees, and support staff.
Benefits
- $20,000 sign-on bonus for eligible full-time RN positions. Eligibility requires at least one year of acute-care RN hospital experience; current Alta Hospital employees are ineligible, and former employees may be ineligible. Payments are made in increments over 24 months to active employees in good standing.
- Loan forgiveness is referenced in the job title.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
