RN Emergency Services
About The Position
The Registered Nurse (RN) delivers compassionate, evidence-based nursing care to support patient health outcomes and recovery. The role includes making patient assessments, performing skilled procedures, implementing and updating individualized care plans, and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team. The RN organizes and prioritizes care around patients’ needs and comfort, applies current practice standards and regulations, and advocates for patients while maintaining ethical accountability. The RN assesses physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, educational, discharge, and cultural needs; establishes measurable goals and time frames; and includes patients and families in care planning. The RN implements interventions according to nursing and medical plans, adapts care to the patient population, diagnosis, and age-specific needs, and reassesses patients to determine whether interventions are effective. The position also requires timely recognition and clinically appropriate response to changes in patient condition. This position is represented by CNA and covered by the terms and conditions of the applicable collective bargaining agreement. The employer is not currently accepting applications from new graduates or nurses new to the specialty.
Requirements
- At least 6 months of previous acute care RN experience in the same unit.
- Current and active California Registered Nurse licensure.
- AHA Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification.
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Nursing degree, upon hire.
Responsibilities
- Provide effective, comprehensive, evidence-based nursing care to achieve desired health outcomes.
- Organize and prioritize patient care activities while considering patients’ needs and comfort.
- Collaborate with other disciplines to support a comprehensive, holistic plan of care.
- Apply current practice standards, guidelines, statutes, rules, and regulations.
- Maintain accountability for ethical conduct and address or escalate ethical concerns.
- Advocate for patients.
- Complete competent patient assessments and identify physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, educational, discharge, and cultural needs.
- Develop individualized plans of care based on assessment, coordinate with other disciplines when indicated, prioritize needs, and set measurable goals and time frames.
- Include patients and families in care planning.
- Implement interventions based on nursing and medical plans of care, adapting them to patient population, diagnosis, and age-specific needs.
- Use equipment and supplies appropriately, including following policies and procedures for transporting, handling, and storing intravenous fluids.
- Reassess patients after interventions, evaluate effectiveness, and update plans of care to reflect current needs.
- Recognize and respond in a timely, clinically appropriate manner to changes in patients’ conditions, such as changes in level of consciousness, vital signs, or test results.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
