RN Medical Surgical Acute
About The Position
Dignity Health - Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center is hiring a Registered Nurse to provide acute medical-surgical nursing care. The RN delivers compassionate, evidence-based care, making assessments, performing skilled procedures, and implementing individualized patient care plans. The role involves collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to support patient recovery and achieve desired health outcomes. The position is represented by CNA and covered by the terms and conditions of the applicable collective bargaining agreement. The nurse organizes and prioritizes care around patient needs and comfort, applies current practice standards and regulations, and demonstrates accountability for ethical practice. The RN advocates for patients, assesses physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, educational, discharge, and cultural needs, and develops measurable, individualized care plans with patients and families. The nurse implements and reassesses interventions, coordinates with other disciplines, adapts care to the patient population, diagnosis, and age-specific needs, and updates care plans as needs change. The RN must recognize changes in a patient's condition and respond in a timely, clinically appropriate manner. The hospital is a 334-bed acute-care nonprofit serving more than 70,000 patients annually. Its services include a Level III NICU, heart care, wound care, and surgical services. It is recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer and is a Joint Commission-certified Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center and an SRC Center of Excellence for Robotic Surgery and Colorectal Surgery. The employer is not currently accepting applications from new graduates or nurses new to the specialty.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited Registered Nurse (RN) program upon hire.
- At least one year of RN experience.
- Active RN license from the State of California.
- BLS certification from the American Heart Association.
- ACLS certification from the American Heart Association.
- Applicants who are new graduates or new to the specialty are not currently being accepted.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) 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, and effective plan of care.
- Apply current practice standards, guidelines, statutes, rules, and regulations.
- Demonstrate accountability for ethical behavior and address or escalate ethical practice issues.
- Serve as a patient advocate.
- Complete competent patient assessments and identify physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, educational, discharge, and cultural needs.
- Develop individualized care plans based on assessments, coordinate with other disciplines when indicated, 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 transport, handling, and storage of intravenous fluids.
- Reassess patients after interventions to verify their effectiveness and update care plans to reflect current needs.
- Recognize changes in patient condition and respond in a timely, clinically appropriate manner.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
