RN Surgery

Dignity Health; Red Bluff (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Dignity Health's St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff, CA, is seeking a dedicated Registered Nurse. The role focuses on delivering compassionate patient care, performing skilled assessments, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to drive positive outcomes.

The RN will utilize the nursing process, manage multiple priorities, and ensure accurate documentation while supporting intra-operative needs and case preparation in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to perform comprehensive patient assessments.
• Strong clinical judgement and critical thinking under pressure.
• Effective collaboration within interdisciplinary teams.
• Prioritize and manage multiple patient-care tasks efficiently.
• Maintain accurate and timely patient documentation.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct patient care using nursing process.
• Perform intra-operative and perioperative tasks as needed.
• Prepare cases, equipment, and supplies to support the team.
• Document patient care activities promptly and accurately.
• Coordinate with team to minimize delays and optimize workflow.
• Investigate and resolve equipment or supply issues promptly.

Skills

Nursing assessment

Critical thinking

Patient care

Multi-tasking

Documentation

Education

Associate Degree in Nursing

CA RN License

Job description

Job Summary And Responsibilities

As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Utilizes the nursing process for the planning and delivery of direct and indirect patient care
• Multi-tasks, organizes, and prioritizes patient care utilizing an efficient, concise and goal outcome process
• Performs case preparation and intra-operative case execution for department needs
• Anticipates preparation of cases and needs to enhance the efficiency of the team effort, i.e. punctual case start times, accurate and timely preparation of cases (instruments, supplies and equipment) and eliminates predictable case delays
• Performs documentation on unit and patient records that is timely, accurate and concise
• Initiates and investigates needed repairs, missing equipment, supplies and other pertinent areas and follows through to ensure resolution

Job Requirements

Required

• Associates Other Nursing, upon hire
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire

Preferred

• Bachelors Of Science Nursing and Two years recent experience in the acute care arena as operating room nurse with scrubbing, circulating skills and First Assist experience, upon hire
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1906, Dignity Health - St. Elizabeth Community Hospital is a 76-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Red Bluff, California. Serving over 90,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level III Trauma Center, heart care, cancer care, and a family birth center. Additionally, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center. It has been named a Top Rural Hospital by The Leapfrog Group for two consecutive years, one of only 16 rural hospitals in the US to achieve this award.

One Community. One Mission. One California

Pay Range

$57.70 - $75.61 /hour