Staff Nurse-NICU

Kaiser Permanente; Honolulu (HI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente Hawaii is seeking a registered nurse in NICU to provide direct patient care and oversee LPNs and nursing assistive personnel. The role emphasizes delegation within regulatory guidelines and delivery of safe, evidence-based care.

The nurse serves as a resource, preceptor, and leader on the unit, ensuring adherence to KP Vision, Model and Values while maintaining clinical excellence and collaborative teamwork with physicians and staff.

Qualifications

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
• RN license (Hawaii) required at hire.
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program within 12 months of hire.
• Basic Life Support from American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

• Provides nursing care and directs LPNs and nursing assistive personnel.
• Delegates nursing care according to guidelines and policies.
• Utilizes nursing process to deliver care.
• Administers medications as appropriate.
• Teaches LPNs and nursing assistive personnel tasks.
• Verifies staff competency for tasks.
• Acts as resource nurse, preceptor, and takes charge duties.
• Incorporates KP Vision, Model and Values in nursing practice.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.

Skills

Adaptability

Change management

Decision making

Detail oriented

Customer service

Interpersonal relations

Oral communication

Prioritization

Problem solving

Quality management

Teamwork

Time management

Written communication

Education

RN License (Hawaii)

Neonatal Resuscitation Program

Basic Life Support (AHA)

Graduate from an accredited school of nursing

Job description

This position is a Hawaii Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Bargaining Unit represented position.

Job Summary

Provides nursing care and services to patients/families. Provides direction to licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistive personnel. Delegates nursing care according to legal and regulatory guidelines/statutes and organizational policies. Utilizes reasonable judgment in carrying out prescribed medical orders of a practitioner. Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver. Serves as resource nurse. Acts as preceptor and takes charge duties as assigned.

Essential Responsibilities

• Practices professional nursing and delegates nursing tasks to nursing assistive personnel and provides direction to the LPN as appropriate.
• Utilizes nursing process to deliver care.
• Performs any nursing task requiring nursing knowledge, judgement, and skill and maintains organizational, departmental, and job-specific competencies in accordance with their departmental scope of service, discipline, specific scopes of practice and defined job descriptions.
• Administers medications. As appropriate, may administer intradermal local anesthetic for IV placement.
• Teaches LPNs and nursing assistive personnel special tasks of nursing care.
• Verifies staff competency to perform special tasks of nursing care as appropriate.
• Is responsible and accountable for quality of nursing rendered and adequacy of nursing care provided when special tasks are delegated to nursing assistive personnel.
• Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver.
• Serves as resource nurse and acts as preceptor.
• Takes charge duties as assigned.
• Incorporates the KP Vision, Model and Values throughout their Nursing Practice.
• Performs administrative and other duties and accepts responsibility as assigned.
• May perform patient care to the extent necessary to maintain clinical expertise, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care on the unit.

Basic Qualifications

Experience

• Minimum of one (1) year of experience in NICU or completion of formal course in area of specialty within established time frame.

Education

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.

License, Certification, Registration

• Registered Nurse License (Hawaii) required at hire

• Neonatal Resuscitation Program within 12 months of hire from American Academy of Pediatrics

• Basic Life Support from American Heart Association

Additional Requirements

• Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in adaptability, change management, decision making, detail oriented, customer service, influence, interpersonal relations, oral communication, prioritization, problem solving, quality management, results orientation, system thinking, teamwork, time management, written communication competencies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with electronic medical records.
• Coursework in basic EKG.