RN (Telemetry) - Loan Forgiveness - Full Time, Days (Culver City) - 10417
About The Position
The Telemetry Registered Nurse provides specialized medical and surgical nursing care to patients with significant heart disease, heart failure, or dysrhythmia. The role requires training in detecting cardiac dysrhythmias, monitoring patients, and using therapeutic equipment, as well as managing and monitoring fixed-rate intravenous drips. The nurse collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement care plans for assigned patients and coordinate care with other disciplines, physicians, and support staff. Professional nursing duties include assessing, planning, intervening, and advocating for patients and their families or significant others throughout the continuum of care, using psychosocial, psychomotor, and age-appropriate cognitive skills. The nurse reevaluates patient responses and outcomes, the effectiveness of care plans, and readiness for discharge, revising plans or making referrals as needed. The role also serves as a model and mentor to new graduate nurses, orientees, and support staff.
Requirements
- Active, current, and unencumbered Registered Nurse license in California.
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- AHA Basic Life Support certification.
- AHA Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification.
- 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.
- One year of previous telemetry or critical care nursing experience, or completion of a basic cardiac dysrhythmia training course.
- Hospital Fire and Life Safety Card for Los Angeles City employees only.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
- Recent experience as a Registered Nurse in an acute-care setting.
- Bilingual skills to communicate effectively with patients and families.
- Progressive Care Certified Nurse (PCCN) certification.
Responsibilities
- Provide safe, effective, and age-appropriate patient care, including reviewing and administering medications, cardiac monitoring, treatments, and procedures within nursing scope and standards.
- Recognize changes in patients’ clinical conditions, take appropriate action, and document interventions.
- Collaborate with the healthcare team to intervene and advocate for patients; respond appropriately to abuse, assault, neglect, or lack of financial or social resources, and make referrals as needed.
- Develop short- and long-term goals consistent with treatment plans and standards of practice, incorporate patient preferences, and discuss the plan of care with patients.
- Use pain-management resources and other interventions to provide pain relief.
- Assess and document patients’ physical and psychosocial conditions and their responses to care.
- Review test results, identify critical results, and communicate them promptly in accordance with patient conditions; incorporate information into the plan of care.
- Follow evidence-based nursing practice, licensure scope, hospital-wide nursing standards, core measures, infection-control procedures, and HIPAA requirements.
- Coordinate care with staff, physicians, other disciplines, and support staff.
- Supervise, monitor, and delegate patient-care activities to appropriate healthcare team members, providing leadership to support safe, high-quality care.
- Provide information, guidance, resources, and education about treatment plans, care plans, and medications.
- Develop and implement accurate patient teaching and ongoing discharge plans.
- Communicate with patients, families, physicians, and coworkers with empathy and cultural, religious, gender-identity, and age-appropriate consideration.
- Mentor new graduate nurses, orientees, and support staff.
- Manage and monitor fixed-rate intravenous drips.
Benefits
- $20,000 sign-on bonus for eligible full-time RN hires with at least one year of acute-care RN hospital experience; current Alta Hospital employees are not eligible, and former Alta Hospital employees may not be eligible. Bonus payments are made in increments over 24 months to active employees in good standing.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Associate degree
