Emergency Room RN

Company: Kaiser
Location: Glendale
Posted on: March 13, 2023

Job Description:

As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. --Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization. --Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect.Essential Responsibilities:

• The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
• Leadership:
• Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.
• Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
• Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
• Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.
• Champions new ideas.
• Leads and directs others through the change process.
• Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
• Participates in problem identification and resolution.
• Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities.
• Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.
• Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
• Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
• Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.Nursing Process:
  • Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
  • Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
  • Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
  • Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
  • Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.
  • Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
  • Ensures care meets standards of practice.
  • Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education.
  • Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
  • Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.
  • Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
  • Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.Patient Care Experience:
    • Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
    • Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
    • Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
    • Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
    • Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
    • Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
    • Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
    • Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
    • Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.Patient Care Experience:
      • Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
      • Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
      • Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
      • Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
      • Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
      • Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
      • Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
      • Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
      • Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.Team Commitment:
        • Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
        • Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
        • Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
        • Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
        • Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).
        • Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
        • Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.
        • Adheres to Attendance Program. --Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.
        • Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.Fiscal Responsibility:
          • Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
          • Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
          • Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.Basic Qualifications:
            • 1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in ED, or successful completion of a KP ED training program or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.
            • Registered Nurse License (California)
            • Pediatric Advanced Life Support
              • Advanced Cardiac Life Support--
                • Basic Life Support--Notes:
                  • --- If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:00 pm-7:30 am, back up 8 hour shift will be 11:00 pm to 7:30 am.--Job Schedule: Job Category: Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners

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