RN Trauma ICU
About The Position
As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will deliver compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to support patients’ well-being and recovery. You will perform assessments and skilled procedures, implement patient care plans, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to promote optimal outcomes. Success in this role requires strong assessment and critical-thinking skills, a patient-first mindset, urgency, and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment. Mercy Medical Center Redding serves nearly 300,000 residents across a six-county region. It is a 266-bed regional medical center and one of two Level II trauma centers in the area. The facility offers 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.
Requirements
- One year of recent open-heart or critical-care experience. Training with one year of continuous, recent experience in a telemetry or step-down unit may be considered if operational considerations exist.
- California Registered Nurse license upon hire.
- Basic Life Support (CPR) certification upon hire.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification upon hire.
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification within 12 months.
Responsibilities
- Perform routine physical and psychosocial assessments to collect basic data, follow the written plan of care and applicable standards, practice guidelines, and pathways, and notify physicians as appropriate.
- Formulate plans of care for individual and patient-population needs and participate in planning routine transitional healthcare needs, including treatment and patient-placement options.
- Adapt educational programs and information to individual patients and families by modifying teaching strategies or content, and integrate education into patient care.
- Communicate the patient's plan of care and significant changes to the interdisciplinary team using SBAR handoff reporting, and to the patient, family, and significant others.
- Make independent clinical decisions based on knowledge from education and experience.
- Advocate for patient rights, identify potential conflicts, and seek counsel to resolve conflicts.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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