Registered Nurse (RN) - ED - Emergency Department
Kaiser Permanente
Harbor City, CA
0x8 hrs, Nights

• 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  ther 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.

• Minimum six (6) months recent (within last 5 years) full-time equivalent experience in ED or Critical Care of successful completion of a KP ED training program or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.


• If an inexperienced RN is being considered, and appropriate KP training program is available, will consider the following:  RN/IPs - new graduates and experienced RNs not meeting above requirements: Applicant must be a graduate of a BRN approved RN program and have completed 768 hours of supervised RN student clinical training.


• Applicants will be required to successfully complete a Kaiser Permanente Nursing Orientation Program.


• IP applicants must receive RN license within 3 months of hire

• N/A

• Registered Nurse License (California)

• Pediatric Advanced Life Support

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support

• Basic Life Support

• N/A

• N/A

Notes:

• May be required to work as intake nurse, triage nurse, preceptor nurse, ADT nurse once trained    


• The eight-hour alternative for this position is 11:30 PM to 8:00 AM


• If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:30 pm-8:00 pam, back up 8 hour shift will be 11:30 PM to 8:00 AM