RN Emergency Services

CommonSpirit Health•Santa Cruz, CA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

As our Staff RN, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement. Clinical Practice & Case Management- Provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum to include patient and family education. Performs psychosocial/physiologic assessments that integrate changing data. Formulates a plan of care based on trends of similar patients, including patient education and discharge planning. Collaborates with patients/families to identify realistic desired outcomes. Administers prescribed medications and intravenous solutions according to standards of care and hospital protocols. Assesses pain level in all patients using "0-10", "Faces", or other approved scale to promote comfort and enable patients to participate in their healing. Provides timely/appropriate assessment/intervention. Identifies comfort function goals with patients. Tailors and prioritizes caring practice to individual needs, including cultural/ethical/spiritual needs. Participates in the planning of routine transitional health acre needs. (i.e. treatment options, patient placement options, end of life options). Adapts standards and guidelines for individual patients.

Requirements

Associate Of Nursing
Nursing Diploma
At least one (1) year recent hospitalexperience in the Emergency Departmentor Critical Care, upon hire
Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire
Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire
Pediatric Advanced Life Support, upon hire
Certified Stroke Registered Nurse, within 90 Days

Nice To Haves

Bachelors Of Nursing BSN, upon hire
Certified Emergency Nurse, upon hire
Trauma Nurse Core Course, upon hire

Responsibilities

Provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way.
Incorporates differences into the provision of care.
Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum to include patient and family education.
Performs psychosocial/physiologic assessments that integrate changing data.
Formulates a plan of care based on trends of similar patients, including patient education and discharge planning.
Collaborates with patients/families to identify realistic desired outcomes.
Administers prescribed medications and intravenous solutions according to standards of care and hospital protocols.
Assesses pain level in all patients using "0-10", "Faces", or other approved scale to promote comfort and enable patients to participate in their healing.
Provides timely/appropriate assessment/intervention.
Identifies comfort function goals with patients.
Tailors and prioritizes caring practice to individual needs, including cultural/ethical/spiritual needs.
Participates in the planning of routine transitional health acre needs. (i.e. treatment options, patient placement options, end of life options).
Adapts standards and guidelines for individual patients.