Registered Nurse-M/S Cardiac-2N

Kaweah Health•Visalia, CA

2d•$48 - $72•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse protects and promotes health, prevents illness and injury, and alleviates suffering through nursing diagnosis and treatment. The nurse demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting by overseeing the interdisciplinary health care team, providing holistic care, and advocating for patients and families. This role is assigned to the M/S Cardiac-2N department and includes team-leader responsibilities, such as serving as a clinical resource and role model, supporting staff, and coordinating staffing and patient flow. The nurse also provides patient care as needed and helps ensure effective communication and collaboration among staff, providers, patients, families, and departments.

Requirements

Current California RN license.
BLS certification.
ACLS certification within one year of hire or transfer.

Nice To Haves

BSN, MSN, or current enrollment in an RN-BSN program.

Responsibilities

Follow the nursing Code of Ethics and demonstrate professional, respectful, ethical, confidential, nonjudgmental, and nondiscriminatory conduct while preserving patient autonomy, dignity, and rights.
Advocate for patients and help them develop skills to advocate for themselves; identify high-risk patients and initiate appropriate ancillary interventions.
Use the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, outcome identification, implementation, and evaluation.
Collect clinical data and use quality and performance-improvement results to recommend and implement improvements in nursing practice and patient outcomes.
Assist with developing and implementing policies, procedures, and practice guidelines, and participate in interdisciplinary teams and quality-improvement studies, task forces, or committees.
Collaborate and communicate with patients, families, and healthcare providers; formulate plans of care with patient involvement and make referrals to support continuity of care.
Serve as a primary clinical resource, role model, and mentor for staff; provide leadership and support, support preceptors and new employees during orientation, provide input on employee evaluations, and help orient float staff.
Represent the Nurse Manager in their absence and provide effective problem-solving and decision-making support for staff.
Manage staffing and patient flow by making and adjusting assignments, coordinating admissions and transfers, ensuring shift report starts on time, monitoring breaks, and communicating next-shift staffing needs.
Assign staff to complete equipment and safety checks, including PCX controls, crash cart, refrigerator temperatures, red books, and narcotic counts.
Coordinate care during high-risk or emergent situations and keep the Nurse Manager, Director, or Nursing Supervisor informed about critical patients and unit issues.
Promote collaboration among staff, physicians, other providers, and departments involved in patient care.
Ensure patient-care issues are documented and reported and that the appropriate nurse completes a Statement of Concern.
Understand and use Medical Staff and Kaweah Health's chain of command; provide employee guidance and alert the Nurse Manager to counseling needs.
Provide patient care as needed and make fiscally responsible decisions about staffing and patient supplies.
Provide care appropriate to the population served, accounting for patients' and families' cultural, linguistic, spiritual, gender, developmental, and age-specific needs.
Perform other duties as assigned.