REGISTERED NURSE III (NON-COMPETITIVE)
County of Los Angeles
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Job summary
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services is seeking a professional Registered Nurse II to provide expert nursing care across varied patient settings. The role requires active CA RN licensure, a current BLS certification, and a minimum of six years of full-time nursing experience (three years at RN II level).
You will participate in assessment, planning, implementation, and interdisciplinary care coordination within a large public health system.
Qualifications
- California RN license from the Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) is required.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association is required.
- Six years of full-time registered nursing experience; three years at RN II level are required.
Responsibilities
- Assess patient conditions and plan individualized care with the interdisciplinary team.
- Develop comprehensive care plans and prescribe nursing interventions to meet outcomes.
- Implement treatments, administer medications, and provide education and discharge planning.
- Lead in urgent or planned interventions and adapt plans as conditions change.
- Collaborate with colleagues to ensure culturally competent and safe patient care.
Skills
Education
Job description
03/03/2026, 8:00 A.M., PT, until the needs of the service are met and is subject to close without prior notice.
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03/03/2026 AT 08:00 A.M., PT
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) is the second largest municipal health system in the nation. Through its unified system of 23 health centers and four hospitals - and expanded network of community partner clinics – DHS annually provides direct care for over 500,000 outstanding patients, employs over 23,000 staff, and has an annual budget of over $8.4 billion.
Through academic affiliations with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Southern California (USC), and the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Sciences (CDU), DHS hospitals are training sites for physicians completing their Graduate Medical Education in nearly every medical specialty and subspecialty. In addition to its direct clinical services, DHS also runs the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency and the County's 911 emergency response system, as well as Housing for Health and the Office of Diversion and Re-entry, each with a critical role in connecting vulnerable populations, including those released from correctional and institutional settings, to supportive housing.
To advance the health of our patients and our communities by providing extraordinary care.
This experienced level class provides professional nursing care and services to patients in a variety of settings.
- Evaluation of the nature and extent of nursing issues presented by a patient for the purpose of patient care planning.
- Assessment includes identifying less obvious or common relationships in collected data and taking appropriate steps to mitigate their impact on the provision and quality of nursing services.
- In addition, at this level, assessment involves predicting diverse patient need for care, potential need for care, and the validation of data collected by others.
- At this level assessment involves recognizing subtle trends before explicit diagnostic signs are evident. Collects and analyzes data from multiple sources.
- Assesses, evaluates and documents the patients' physical, medical and psychosocial circumstances; identifies economic or cultural barriers and determines their influence on the provision of care; refers patients based on patients' needs and risk factors involved.
- Synthesizes all available patient information including observations by other health care team members and the patient's significant others and predicts variances from the expected trajectory.
- Initiates additional assessment and/or reassessment of patients as necessary when a patient is currently or potentially at physiologic, psychological, and psychosocial risk.
- Identifies and utilizes resources to facilitate the appropriate assessment of diverse populations, patients, and families.
- Develops collaborative partnerships with patient and family to obtain complete health history, including present illness, current health status, and past medical, psychosocial, spiritual and family histories; integrates patients' values and beliefs when providing care.
- Creates, validates, and/or improves tools to ensure assessment data is collected and documented.
- Utilizes collected data and experience to assess risk for instability and rapidly identify deviations from baseline.
- Developing a plan of care based on the assessment process.
- The purpose is to collaborate with all involved in the care of the patient (interdisciplinary team, patient, and their significant others).
- At this level, incumbents develop a comprehensive plan of care and prescribe nursing interventions that move the patient closest to desired outcomes.
- Interventions are individualized and address both short- and long-term needs.
- Uses complex problem solving skills and experience to identify a broad range of options in the development of a plan of care with realistic outcomes which are congruent with interdisciplinary goals.
- As patient responds to interventions, expeditiously modifies and communicates the plan of care in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team including clinical pathways as appropriate; for patients on clinical pathways, identifies when a change in patient condition requires discontinuation of the pathway and communicates to the provider the need to change the plan of care.
- Evaluates and integrates the presence of high-risk factors, at-risk behaviors, and other concerns into the plan of care.
- Initiates and leads patient care conferences with interdisciplinary team.
- Integrates and anticipates interdisciplinary discharge planning needs into plan of care.
- Identifies appropriate tools and/or teaching methods for patient/family education.
- Interventions that a nurse performs for a patient, including treatments, procedures, medication administration, education, referrals, and discharge planning.
- At this level, incumbents lead others during situations which require immediate, independent interventions and for those which call for planned interventions.
- Also at this level, incumbents demonstrate adaptability and respond quickly and decisively to very complex situations.
- Provides individualized, specialized nursing care to patients and administers medications and treatments to patients as prescribed.
- A license to practice as a Registered Nurse issued by the California Board of Registered Nursing.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers (CPR & AED) Program certification issued by the American Heart Association.
- Six years of full-time registered nursing experience*; Three years of experience must be at the level of the Los Angeles County classification Registered Nurse II**.
Please ensure the License and Certification Section of the required license(s), the number(s), date(s) of issue, date(s) of expiration and the name(s) of the issuing agency for the required license as specified in the Selection Requirements.
Required license(s) and/or certification(s) must be active and unrestricted, or your application will not be accepted. Additionally, in order to receive credit for license(s) and/or certification(s) in relation to any desirable qualifications, the license(s) and/or certification(s) must be active and unrestricted.
The required license to practice as a Registered Nurse issued by the Department of Consumer Affairs, California Board of Registered Nursing will be verified at the following website: https://search.dca.ca.gov.
A valid California Class C Driver License or the ability to utilize an alternative method of transportation when needed to carry out job-related essential functions.
Applicants claiming experience in a state other than California must provide their Registered Nurse License Number from that state on the application; without the required license number will not be considered.
A current Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers (CPR & AED) Program certification issued by the American Heart Association.
Applicants must attach a legible photocopy of their BLS certification to their application at the time of filing or within 15 calendar days from the application date. Applications submitted without the required evidence of BLS certification will be rejected.
NOTE: If you are unable to attach documents to your application, you may email the documents to Balik Sarkissian at bsarkissian@dhs.lacounty.gov within fifteen (15) calendar days of filing online or you will be rejected. Please include your full name (as it appears on your application), the exam number, and the exam title in the email message.
Includes standing or walking most of the time, with bending, stooping, squatting, twisting, and reaching; includes working on irregular surfaces, occasionally lifting objects weighting over 25 pounds, and frequent lifting of 10-25 pounds.
- Full-time experience is defined as a minimum of 36 hours worked per week and must be post-license only.
- For this examination, Registered Nurse II in the County of Los Angeles is defined as:
- Providing professional nursing care and services to patients in a variety of settings.
- Serving as an expert or specialist who gives practical experience and training to a new graduate, a new hire, a re-entry, or a nurse that is transitioning into a new area.
An evaluation of training and experience based on application and supplemental questionnaire information weighted 100%.
This is a noncompetitive examination. This examination is intended to merely qualify applicants. Applicants will be placed on an eligible register without indication of relative standing in the examination.
Applications will be processed on an "as received" basis and those receiving a passing score will be promulgated to the eligible register accordingly. The names of candidates who qualify will be added to the eligible register for a period of twelve (12) months from the date of promulgation.
No person may compete in this examination more than once every twelve (12) months.
Appointees may be required to work any shift, including evenings, nights, weekends and holidays.
The eligible register resulting from this examination will be used to fill vacancies throughout the Department of Health Services as they occur.
The County of Los Angeles is a Fair Chance employer. Except for a very limited number of positions, you will not be asked to provide information about a conviction history unless you receive a contingent offer of employment. The County will make an individualized assessment of whether your conviction history has a direct or adverse relationship with the specific duties of the job, and consider potential mitigating factors, including, but not limited to, evidence and extent of rehabilitation, recency of the offense(s), and age at the time of the offense(s). If asked to provide information about a conviction history, any convictions or court records which are exempted by a valid court order do not have to be disclosed.
The County of Los Angeles is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to non-discrimination in the County workforce, regardless of age (40 and over); ancestry; color; ethnicity; religious creed; protected family or medical leave status; disability; marital status; medical condition; genetic information; military and veteran status; national origin; race ; sex; gender; sexual orientation; or any other characteristic protected by State or federal law. For more information, please visit: https://employee.hr.lacounty.gov/eeo-programs/.
The County of Los Angeles complies with all federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants and employees with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application process, please contact the testing accommodation coordinator listed on the job posting. Hearing impaired applicants with telephone teletype equipment may leave messages by calling the teletype phone number on the job posting. For more information on accommodations, please visit: https://hr.lacounty.gov/accessibility/.
Final appointment is contingent upon verification of U.S. citizenship or the right to work in the United States.
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