Tenet Desert is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Med Surg for a nursing job in Joshua Tree, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Med Surg
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: Ongoing
- Employment Type: Staff
Job Shift: Days, 7:00 am to 7:30 pm, every other weekend required.
Hours: 12
Job Type: Part Time
Up to $7,500 Sign-On bonus based on experience
Provides high quality professional nursing services in a medical and surgical environment.
- Maintains knowledge of the nursing process and the path physiology disease. Demonstrates knowledge of the nursing process and utilizes it in assessment of path physiology disease.
- Develops a plan of care based on assessments of patient problems with appropriate interventions.
- All patients assigned to RN have a plan of care based on assessments and interventions are appropriate.
- Ability to organize patient care responsibilities with assignment of ancillary staff based on skills and experience.
- Patient care has been organized with appropriate assignment of ancillary staff.
- Provides patient education based on disease and discharge of planning needs. All patients assigned to RN have educational needs met and documentation is present on chart.
- Administers medications safely. No evidence of serious medication errors or careless practice.
- Maintains patient confidentiality and provides information to patients when needed for Informed Consent.
- Observes patient’s rights, confidentiality & reports incidents of elder abuse when indicated.
- Archives competencies in skills needed for the unit assigned. Competencies are achieved and maintained through annual appraisal.
- Completes documentation as required for chart documents and unusual occurrences (Incident Reports). Charting documentation is complete; incident reports are timely and routed appropriately.
- Maintains currency in nursing practice by attending seminars, in-services, and journal reading.
- Nursing practice reflects currency in theory and adherence to correct principles.
- Assists in planning, supervising and instructing LVN’s, CNA’s and students.
- Supervises and evaluates RN’s, LVN’s and Patient Care Technicians.
- Knowledge of patient’s rights, confidentiality, & Elder Abuse Reporting requirements.
- Observes Patients’ Bill of Rights & reports incidents of Elder Abuse, if indicated.
- Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to cardiac arrhythmias displayed on a monitor and/or printed strip. Correctly identifies and appropriately responds to basic cardiac arrhythmias.
Minimum Education/Certification/Experience:
- Current CA RN license
- Current CPR Certification
- ACLS within 90 days of hire
- Dysrhythmia interpretation course or demonstrated competency in interpretation of dysrhythmias by the end of orientation.
- 1 year Acute Care experience preferred
Physical demands:
- Heavy physical effort (lift/carry up to 50 lbs.)
- Prolonged, extensive, or considerable standing/walking
- Lifts, positions, pushes and/or transfers patients
Working Conditions:
- Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances
- May be exposed to infections and contagious diseases
- Exposed to hazardous anesthetic agents, body fluids and wastes
- Occasional exposure to unpleasant patient or unit elements
- Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases
- Requires judgment/action which could result in death of patient
#LI-AM7
Tenet Desert Job ID #2603025067. Posted job title: Registered Nurse (RN) - Med Surg
Benefits