Location
Bakersfield, CA | United States
Job description
Job Title: Registered Nurse - PEDS
Job Location: Bakersfield, CA 93306
Job Duration: 3 Months+ (Possibilities of Extension)
Shift: 4X12 - Nights Hours: 48 hrs./Week Pay Range: $70/hr. on W2 Job Description: - The Hospital Staff Nurse II is the advanced level in the Hospital Staff Nurse Pre-Licensed/I/II flexible classification series and includes Hospital Staff Nurses in correctional medicine assignments.
- Hospital Staff Nurse II is the third level in the Hospital Staff Nurse - Pre-Licensed I/II flexible classification series.
- It is designed for the licensed Registered Nurse who has experience to at an advanced level of nursing practice.
- Hospital Staff Nurse II is distinguished from Hospital Staff Nurse I by its level of knowledge and skill required including the degree of difficulty of work and performance with minimum supervision.
- The emphasis on essential functions performed may vary according to assignment.
- All nursing clinical practice shall be evaluated and governed through the Chief Nursing Officer and/or their Registered Nurse designee.
Essential Functions: - Collects and documents data about patients commonly seen on the unit according to prescribed methods.
- Interprets complex assessment data to determine whether patient has physiological and/or psychosocial risk factors, records and reports assessment data.
- Develops and contributes to a plan of nursing action based on existing and potential patient problems and observable patient responses; incorporates the medical plan of care.
- Uses combination of education and advanced experience to provide a range of options for nursing actions; makes appropriate nursing decisions based on the assessment of the patient and interpretation of clinical data.
- Establishes nursing diagnoses and initiates appropriate interventions; uses appropriate resources to formulate a written plan of care; evaluates the effectiveness of nursing intervention and revises patient care plans as necessary.
- Implements therapeutic care for patients responding to the needs due to multi-system disease or complications of treatment; work with physician in setting priorities for care of patients.
- Anticipates patient care problems and responds to changes on the unit by prioritizing emergencies, changes in patient status and unusual occurrences.
- Performs and documents the nursing process consistent with scientific principle and hospital policy as required by patient assignment.
- Implements the medical and nursing care plans and coordinates patient care activities with nurses, physicians and allied health professionals.
- Performs tasks described in the unit specific components of nursing practice for the unit to which assigned. Assesses patient/family level of understanding and develops teaching methods and plans; accordingly, follows through on teaching plans developed to instruct patients and their family members regarding; testing, procedures and disease process; knowledge and skills essential to coping with illness, and promotion of optimum health.
- Addresses the stressful situations experienced by patients/families and assists them in dealing with illness and hospitalization.
- Coordinates and participates in patient care rounds and conferences.
- Performs quality assurance monitoring; analyzes results of monitoring activities; participates in designing plan of improvement for identified problems.
- Trains staff members, orients new staff, serves as a mentor to staff as an experienced clinician and manager of care.
- Completes all competencies, mandatory classes and educational coursework as required by the hospital.
- Demonstrates clinical knowledge and skill in the care of populations served byclient facilities.
Education: - Possession of bachelor's degree in nursing or successful completion of an accredited Registered Nurse Program as evidence by licensure, from a recognized college or university.
Experience: Licenses and Certification: - Current and valid license as a Registered Nurse issued by the State.
- Current BLS as per American Heart Association standards - Required.
- Unit specific certification as required (i.e., ACLS, PALS, etc.)
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