Staff Nurse - Cath Lab

Kaiser Permanente • Honolulu, HI

111d

About The Position

This position is a Hawaii Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Bargaining Unit represented position. Provides nursing care and services to patients/families. Provides direction to licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistive personnel. Delegates nursing care according to legal and regulatory guidelines/statutes and organizational policies. Utilizes reasonable judgment in carrying out prescribed medical orders of a practitioner. Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver. Serves a resource nurse. Acts as preceptor and takes charge duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum of one (1) year of experience in area of specialty or completion of formal course in area of specialty within established timeframe.
• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
• Registered Nurse License (Hawaii).
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 12 months of hire from American Heart Association.
• Basic Life Support.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with electronic medical records.
• Coursework in basic EKG.

Responsibilities

• Practices professional nursing and delegates nursing tasks to nursing assistive personnel and provides direction to the LPN as appropriate.
• Utilizes nursing process to deliver care.
• Performs any nursing task requiring nursing knowledge, judgment, and skill and maintains organizational, departmental, and job-specific competencies.
• Administers medications.
• May administer intradermal local anesthetic for IV placement.
• Teaches LPNs and nursing assistive personnel special tasks of nursing care.
• Verifies staff competency to perform special tasks of nursing care as appropriate.
• Is responsible and accountable for quality of nursing rendered and adequacy of nursing care provided when special tasks are delegated to nursing assistive personnel.
• Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver.
• Serves as resource nurse and acts as preceptor.
• Takes charge duties as assigned.
• Incorporates the KP Vision, Model and Values throughout their nursing practice.
• Performs administrative and other duties and accepts responsibility as assigned.
• May perform patient care to maintain clinical expertise, competency, and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree