Rn Jobs in Los Angeles, TX

About The Position

Requirements

• Current California RN license.
• BLS certification.
• ACLS certification.
• NIHSS stroke certification from the American Stroke Association within 60 days of hire or transfer.
• Kaweah Health-approved crisis intervention training within 60 days of hire or transfer.
• CCRN certification from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses within one year of hire or transfer.
• At least two years of RN experience in critical care.
• Critical-care clinical knowledge and experience managing patients in crisis.
• Ability to handle emergency and life-threatening situations.
• Effective communication skills in a multidisciplinary setting.
• Teamwork orientation and a positive, caring, customer-service-oriented attitude.

Nice To Haves

• Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) provider card.
• PALS certification.
• BSN, MSN, or current enrollment in an RN-BSN program.

Responsibilities

• Identify at-risk patients and initiate appropriate interventions, including referrals to ancillary departments.
• Assess patients using the nursing process and advanced critical-care assessment skills; interpret diagnostic and monitoring data and direct care for stabilization under standardized procedures.
• Respond to Code Blue, RRT, Sepsis Alert, Trauma Alert, and Stroke Alert pages.
• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary care during an RRT, communicate critical information to physicians and intensivists using SBAR, and ensure orders are carried out.
• Direct care until the patient is stabilized or transferred; assist with transport and handoff, and remain involved until an adequate handoff and care resources are in place.
• Document interventions and conduct RRT debriefings with bedside nursing staff, providing appropriate feedback and education.
• Collaborate and communicate with patients, families, physicians, and other healthcare providers; advocate for patients and involve them in care decisions.
• Maintain ethical, respectful, confidential, nonjudgmental, and nondiscriminatory nursing practice that preserves patient autonomy, dignity, and rights.
• Use quality-of-care and performance-improvement findings to recommend and implement changes to nursing practice and patient outcomes.
• Participate in quality-improvement studies, committees, task forces, interdisciplinary teams, audits, and policy or guideline development; share findings and recommend solutions.
• Monitor documentation and appropriate referrals, and formulate plans of care that support continuity of care.
• Perform daily rounds for at-risk inpatients and serve as an impact nurse assisting critical-care areas, including ICU, CVICU, ED, and ICCU, as requested.
• Provide bedside care and take assigned patients when census needs require.
• Attend at least 75% of RRT Quality Focus Team committee meetings and RRT staff meetings; assist with data collection and report data to appropriate committees.
• Conduct in-services and mock codes to educate inpatient staff about emergency situations; attend quarterly staff meetings for assigned inpatient departments to share feedback and learning.
• Maintain ongoing RRT education and provide care appropriate to patients’ developmental, cultural, linguistic, spiritual, gender, and age-specific needs.
• If acting as lead, coordinate RRT deployment and shift coverage, facilitate observation-shift scheduling, drive quality-improvement initiatives, and promote staff education and competency development.
• Perform other duties as assigned.