RN Psychiatric Acute Adult

CommonSpirit Health • Glendale, CA

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About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides compassionate, high-quality, evidence-based nursing care to support patients’ health outcomes, well-being, and recovery. The RN performs patient assessments and skilled procedures, implements individualized care plans, and organizes care according to patient needs and comfort. The role involves collaborating with an interdisciplinary team, advocating for patients, and applying current practice standards, guidelines, statutes, rules, and regulations. The RN is accountable for ethical conduct and addresses or escalates ethical concerns.

The RN identifies the physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, educational, discharge, and cultural needs of the unit’s patient population. Based on assessments, the RN develops individualized plans with measurable goals and time frames, includes patients and families in planning, coordinates with other disciplines as indicated, and implements interventions suited to patient diagnoses and age-specific needs. The RN uses equipment and supplies appropriately, follows applicable policies and protocols for intravenous fluids, reassesses patients to evaluate intervention effectiveness, and updates care plans as needs change.

The hospital is a 334-bed, acute-care, nonprofit facility serving more than 70,000 patients annually. The position is represented by CNA and covered by the applicable collective bargaining agreement. Applications from new graduates or nurses new to the specialty are not currently being accepted.

Requirements

• At least 6 months of previous acute-care RN experience in medical-surgical nursing.
• Current and active California Registered Nurse license.
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• New graduates and nurses new to the specialty are not currently being accepted.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor of Nursing degree, preferred upon hire.

Responsibilities

• Provide 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 provide a comprehensive, holistic plan of care.
• Apply current practice standards, guidelines, statutes, rules, and regulations.
• Maintain accountability for ethical behavior and address or escalate ethical issues.
• Advocate for patients.
• Complete patient assessments competently and identify physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, educational, discharge, and cultural needs.
• Develop individualized plans of care with measurable goals and time frames based on patient assessments.
• Include patients and families in care planning and coordinate with other disciplines when indicated.
• Implement nursing and medical plan-of-care interventions, adapting them to patient populations, diagnoses, and age-specific needs.
• Use equipment and supplies appropriately and follow established policies, procedures, and protocols for intravenous fluids.
• Reassess patients after interventions, evaluate their effectiveness, and update care plans to reflect current needs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed