RN Med Surg Per Diem
About The Position
As a Staff RN, you will provide compassionate, high-quality care that supports patients’ well-being and recovery. You will deliver individualized, comprehensive care through critical assessments, skilled procedures, and implementation of patient care plans. You will collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes in a fast-paced environment. In clinical practice and case management, you will provide safe, therapeutic, holistic, and systematic care, incorporating individual differences and integrating your knowledge, skills, and experience to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the care continuum. This includes patient and family education, psychosocial and physiologic assessments that account for changing data, care planning based on trends among similar patients, and discharge planning. You will collaborate with patients and families to identify realistic desired outcomes and administer prescribed medications and intravenous solutions according to standards of care and hospital protocols. Dominican Hospital is a 188-bed acute-care nonprofit hospital in Santa Cruz, California, serving more than 80,000 patients annually. Its services include heart care, orthopedics, and a Family Birthing Center. The hospital is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center and has received stroke-care quality recognition. The position is per diem.
Requirements
- Associate degree in nursing or diploma in nursing.
- Six months of recent hospital, clinic, or similar nursing experience.
- Registered Nurse license for California, upon hire.
- Basic Life Support (CPR), upon hire.
- Cancer Chemotherapy Provider certification within 12 months.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing, upon hire.
Responsibilities
- Provide safe, therapeutic, holistic, and systematic patient care.
- Incorporate patient differences into the provision of care.
- Integrate knowledge, skills, and experience to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the care continuum.
- Provide patient and family education.
- Perform psychosocial and physiologic assessments that incorporate changing data.
- Develop plans of care based on trends among similar patients, including patient education and discharge planning.
- Collaborate with patients and families to identify realistic desired outcomes.
- Administer prescribed medications and intravenous solutions according to standards of care and hospital protocols.
- Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
