Clinical Nurse RN - ICU and Procedural Areas Float Pool - Sharp Metro Campus - Variable shifts - .6 Part time

sharp; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 88,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp HealthCare in San Diego is seeking a Registered Nurse to provide direct and indirect nursing care. The role operates under a union pay scale with placement based on RN experience, and involves variable shift times and weekend rotations.

Requirements include graduation from nursing school, CA RN license, BLS, ACLS, and NIH Stroke Scale certification. On-call is not required, with 12/36 shift patterns and weekend rotations every other weekend.

Qualifications

• Graduate of nursing school.
• 1 year clinical experience or new grad program completion.
• California RN license required.
• AHA BLS for Healthcare Providers required.
• ACLS certification required.
• NIH Stroke Scale certification required.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.
• Coordinate care with multidisciplinary team and patient/family.
• Communicate care plans to team and adjust as needed.
• Document per department guidelines and ensure patient safety.
• Act as a resource and mentor for other nurses on unit.

Skills

Clinical experience

Graduate of nursing school

Education

Nursing degree

Job description

Hours :

Shift Start Time: Variable Shift End Time: Variable

AWS Hours Requirement: 12/36 - 12 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements: Every Other

On-Call Required: No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $64.210 - $72.970 - $93.760

The stated pay scale reflects the range as defined by the collective bargaining agreement between Sharp HealthCare and Sharp Professional Nurses Network, United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, NUHHCE, AFSME, AFL-CIO. Placement within the range is based on years of RN experience.

What You Will Do

• To provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.

Required Qualifications

• Graduate of nursing school.
• 1 Year clinical experience (RNs with less than 12 months experience will complete the new grad requirements).
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED
• ACLS Certification (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) - Various-Employee provides certificate -REQUIRED

Essential Functions

Clinical advancement

• Uses systematic planning, appropriate methods and timely exchange of information with multidisciplinary team and patient/family to coordinate care.
• Demonstrates ability to focus on and manage multiple patient needs and aspects of care.
• Actively communicates with care team to plan patient care.
• Utilizes available resources to problem-solve and determine most effective approach to action.

Clinical judgment and decision making

• Utilizes the nursing process and a critical thinking approach to provide patient care that incorporates the mind, body and spirit; is individualized, goal directed, and consistent with current standards of safety.
• Identifies actual/potential problems for which the patient is at risk.
• Continuously evaluates interventions and care, and adjusts the plan as patient and family needs change.
• Identifies need for referrals based on information obtained in initial and ongoing assessments and evaluation.
• Collaborates with patient, family and other team members to develop a comprehensive plan of care.
• Prioritizes demand for resources and collaborates with others to meet individualized patient needs.
• Acts as preceptor/teacher in guiding other nurses on how to apply the nursing process with a particular unit population.
• Makes appropriate referrals based on information obtained in initial and ongoing assessments and evaluation.
• Implements safe, therapeutic and efficient care for patients with complex needs due to multi-system disease and/or complications of treatment.
• Demonstrates accountability for achieving patient outcomes.
• Demonstrates an ability to quickly recognize a patient diagnosis even though presenting symptoms or situations may be dissimilar.
• Documents per department/entity guidelines of care and policies and procedures.
• Comprehensive; representing detailed, concise picture of patient's care.
• Serves as a resource for other staff in managing unit specific documentation issues.
• Charting reflects a critical thinking/problem oriented approach to patient issues.

Clinical leadership

• Delegates/assigns and communicates expectations for care delivery processes to each member of the team.
• Knowledgeable about what can and cannot be delegated to each different health care team member.
• Responsible for delegation and follows through to ensure delegated task is complete.
• Before delegating, analyzes each situation, determines and consistently applies levels of supervision needed (unsupervised, initial direction and periodic inspection, continuous supervision, or should not be delegated).
• Assesses appropriateness of physician orders and to question physician when appropriate.
• Helps coworkers improve performance.
• Offers assistance and support to coworkers.
• Provides positive feedback to others.
• Provides unit specific information to students, floats, travelers/registry personnel and documents appropriately.
• Provides incidental teaching to members of the team.
• Looks for and applies ways to improve work processes and systems.
• Offers and accepts constructive feedback/criticism in a non-judgmental, positive and confidential manner.
• Seeks out opportunities to assist and support coworkers.

Nurse-patient/family relationship

• Establishes a therapeutic relationship with patient and family.
• Anticipates problems to establishing/maintaining a therapeutic relationship with a specific patient and takes actions to enhance quality of nurse/patient/family interaction (problems may include: spiritual, cultural, language or other communication barriers; those imposed by nature of illness or health issue).
• Analyzes social/cultural variables and adapts nursing interventions to meet diverse needs.
• Serves as a patient advocate through actions such as: removing obstacles, identifying and supporting appropriate