Hospital Nurse Shift Manager - Per Diem - Shift

Kern Medical; Bakersfield (CA); On-site; USD 62,000 - 103,000; Part time

Job summary

Kern Medical in Bakersfield, CA is seeking a per diem Registered Nurse to support our acute care team. The role focuses on staffing coverage with a minimum four shifts per month and a flexible, part-time schedule.

Responsibilities include coordinating with nursing units, assisting in admissions and transfers, and delivering high-quality patient care. California RN license and BLS/ACLS/PALS may be required; background checks may apply.

Qualifications

• Current California RN license.
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing or related field.
• Three years of paid full-time hospital RN experience, within the past five years.
• One year in a charge nurse or leadership role for a specific function within past seven years.
• Certifications in BLS, ACLS, and PALS.

Responsibilities

• Interpret hospital policies and ensure unit compliance with Nursing Department standards.
• Serve as a resource for nursing staff and advise Nursing Unit Managers on issues.
• Coordinate inter-department communication and problem-solving with medical staff.
• Evaluate staffing needs each shift and adjust staff assignments hospital-wide.
• Perform patient care in emergency situations as required.
• Manage and oversee all incoming transfer requests and admissions.
• Perform telephonic patient triage and communicate clinical presentation to accepting physicians.
• Ensure bed assignments and priority placement for transfers and ensure preauthorization as needed.
• Document transfers and follow transfer center guidelines.

Skills

Leadership

Crisis management

Staff coordination

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nursing

Job description

Job Category: Nursing - Registered Nurse

Requisition Number: HOSPI005619

• Part-Time

Locations

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Bakersfield, CA 93306, USA

Description

Kern Medical has been a community cornerstone since its founding in 1867. Today, we are an acute care teaching center with 222 beds, offering the only advanced trauma care between Fresno and Los Angeles.Kern Medical offers a range of primary, specialty, and multi-specialty services including high-risk pregnancy care, inpatient psychiatric services integrated with county mental health programs, and a growing network of outpatient clinics providing personalized patient-centered wellness care. Kern Medical cares for 15,500 inpatients and 125,000 clinic patients a year.

• Per Diem employees supplement department staffing needs, with no guarantee of minimum hours.
• Per Diem minimum scheduling expectation is four (4) shifts per month.

Essential Functions:

• Interprets hospital policies and procedures for staff and monitors compliance; ensures that nursing units operate in a manner consistent with policies of the Nursing Department and Kern Medical.
• Serves as a resource for hospital staff and as a clinical resource for Nursing staff in providing nursing care to patients; advises Nursing Unit Managers on significant issues, concerns and occurrences on the unit.
• Works closely with members of the medical staff to facilitate inter-departmental communication and problem-solving.
• Evaluates staffing needs each shift on each unit and adjusts staff assignments hospital-wide as required to meet changing need; assists in evaluation of staff and may recommend disciplinary action.
• Performs patient care in emergency situations as required.
• Serves as Kern Medical’s representative with visitors, other providers, media representatives and the general public.
• Manages and provides oversight of all incoming transfer requests from outlying facilities – providing framework, coordination, and monitoring of incoming transfers and direct admissions into Kern Medical in a timely manner.
• Performs telephonic patient triage, prioritizes patient information, and communicates clinical presentation of the patient to the accepting physicians at Kern Medical.
• Ensures accepted transfer patients receive bed assignments and priority placement.
• Ensures insurance preauthorization for non-emergent inpatient to inpatient transfers.
• Ensures signed Take Back Agreements (TBA’s) for inpatient to inpatient transfers.
• Follows the transfer center guidelines and documents all transfers appropriately utilizing the Transfer Log, Admissions and Transfers Log and Transfer Center Intake Form.
• Uses the on-call physician list via Tiger Connect to contact appropriate service for transfer.

Other Functions:

• Performs other job-related duties as required.

Employment Standards:

Registration: Current California license as a Registered Nurse.

AND

Completion of a Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Business or Health care administration or other related field from an accredited college or university. AND Three (3) years of paid full-time hospital experience as a Registered Nurse. Qualifying experience must be attained within the past five (5) years.

OR

Five (5) years of hospital experience as a Registered Nurse, including one (1) year in a charge nurse or leadership role for a specific function, e.g., education, safety, quality management, research and/or policy development. Qualifying experience must be attained within the past seven (7) years.

Depending on assignment incumbents may be required to possess and maintain specific certificates of competency as a condition of employment.

Must maintain American Heart Association Provider Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification. As a continued condition of employment, employee must maintain RQI Provider certification and competency.

Knowledge of:

The principles, practices and methods of patient care delivery systems; principles of effective personnel management; principles of in-service training for professional and allied nursing personnel; development, application and uses of nursing records, reports and statistics; modern hospital organization, practices, supplies and equipment.

Ability to:

Plan, organize, coordinate and assist in directing nursing services for a large general hospital; analyze and respond to crisis situations, decide effective courses of action and work calmly and effectively with individuals and surrounding circumstances in each situation encountered; evaluate and assess professional and allied nursing personnel; communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.

Supplemental:

A background check may be required for this classification.

All Kern Medical employees are designated "Disaster Service Workers". In the event of a disaster or civil disorder, all Kern Medical employees are to remain at work or to report to work in a safe and practicable manner.

If position responsibilities require driving a personal vehicle, then possession of a current valid California Driver’s License and adherence to the Kern County Hospital Authority Vehicle Use and Driving Standard Policy (ENG-EC-119) is required.

If position responsibilities require driving a vehicle owned, leased or rented by Kern Medical, then possession of a current valid California Driver’s license, a signed authorization for Release of Drivers Record Information and adherence to the Kern County Hospital Authority Vehicle Use and Driving Standard Policy (ENG-EC-119) is required.

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