RN Float Pool Critical Care

CommonSpirit Health•Redding, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Mercy Medical Center Redding is a 266-bed regional medical center serving nearly 300,000 residents across a six-county region. It provides inpatient and outpatient services and specialized cardiovascular, stroke, orthopedic, neurological surgery, cancer, maternity, and robotic surgery services. Its care network also includes Mercy Home Health and Hospice and Dignity Health Connected Living. As a Critical Care Nurse, you provide expert care to vulnerable patients with life-threatening conditions. You monitor patients, respond to changes in their condition, assist with critical procedures, provide wound care, manage complex medications, and coordinate patient transport. The role requires sound clinical judgment, multitasking, patient advocacy, and composure during emergencies. This position floats to assigned departments and accepts assignments professionally to ensure uninterrupted patient handoffs. You assess patients’ physical and psychosocial needs, follow care plans and practice guidelines, notify physicians as appropriate, formulate individualized plans of care, and participate in planning routine transitions of care. You adapt education for patients and families, integrate teaching into care delivery, prioritize care efficiently, identify solutions to problems, and make independent clinical decisions informed by education and experience. Call may be required.

Requirements

At least 2 consecutive years of recent ED and/or ICU experience within the last 5 years; training may be provided when operational considerations allow.
Associate degree in Nursing.
Ability to work in diverse areas.
Current California RN license.
Current BLS, ACLS, PALS, NRP, and TNCC; NRP and TNCC are due within 6 months of hire or transfer.
BLS, ACLS, and basic dysrhythmia skills are required.
Verbal and written communication skills.
Computer skills.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).

Responsibilities

Float to assigned departments and accept assignments and duties professionally to ensure uninterrupted patient handoffs.
Monitor and respond to patients with life-threatening conditions.
Assist with critical procedures, provide wound care, manage complex medications, and coordinate patient transport.
Conduct routine physical and psychosocial assessments and collect basic patient data.
Follow written plans of care, standards, practice guidelines, and pathways; notify physicians as appropriate.
Formulate plans of care based on individual and patient-population needs.
Participate in planning routine transitional health care needs, including treatment and patient-placement options.
Adapt education and information for individual patients and families, and integrate education into patient care.
Deliver care efficiently, determine immediate priorities, and offer solutions to problems.
Make independent clinical decisions based on knowledge from education and experience.
Provide patient advocacy and respond calmly during emergencies.
Meet call requirements when needed.