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University of Southern California

Research university in Los Angeles, CA

Registered Nurse - 7N Telemetry

Full-TimePosted on 10/21/2026
$45.76 - $98.80/hr
Junior
Bachelor's
Los Angeles, CA, USA
In Person
Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryNursing & Frontline Patient Care

About the job

Requirements
  • A Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN) is required, except for employees grandfathered from the requirement if hired before December 2019.
  • At least 1 year of acute inpatient hospital experience as a registered nurse is required.
  • Excellent communication skills are required, including the ability to speak, read, and write English proficiently.
  • Knowledge of medical procedures and conditions, and the ability to understand, follow, and perform duties including whole blood collection and apheresis procedures in accordance with administrative and clinical policies, regulations, and procedures, are required.
  • Commitment to excellence in patient care and customer service is required.
  • The ability to work independently with minimal direction and supervision is required.
  • An active Registered Nurse license from the California Board of Registered Nursing is required.
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider certification from the American Heart Association is required.
  • Los Angeles City Fire Life Safety Training is required; if the card is not held upon hire, it must be obtained within 30 days of hire and maintained through renewal before expiration. This requirement applies within Los Angeles City only.
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Healthcare Provider certification from the American Heart Association is required for intensive care, step-down, and telemetry departments. Registered nurses without prior telemetry or critical care experience must obtain ACLS within 180 days or by the end of orientation, whichever is sooner.
Responsibilities
  • Provide therapeutic patient care using the nursing process and coordinate patient care and patient and family education in accordance with standards, policies, and practices.
  • Follow policies and procedures and demonstrate the ability to access online manuals.
  • Apply learned scientific knowledge in practice through the nursing process.
  • Complete nursing assessments upon admission, at each shift, and when a patient’s condition changes; complete daily patient acuity assessments by 0200 or 1400.
  • Interpret assessment information and formulate nursing diagnoses.
  • Develop individualized plans of care, document expected and projected patient outcomes, and review, revise, and update plans daily based on evaluation of outcomes.
  • Administer medications and intravenous therapy at prescribed intervals and complete patient care procedures according to policy and schedule.
  • Delegate tasks according to others’ scope of practice and competency, act as a patient advocate, and manage restraint use according to policy, attempting alternative measures first.
  • Ensure physician orders and assessments, patient monitoring, and restraint audit documentation meet policy requirements.
  • Complete accurate documentation on required flow sheets and chart forms, including admission assessments, pain assessments and reassessments, daily, restraint, diabetes, and educational flow sheets, Kardex, care plans, risk assessments and reassessments, fall documentation, medication administration records, equipment and supplies, transfer forms, and belongings tracking forms.
  • Ensure orders are transcribed and signed off before the end of the shift and complete 12-hour and 24-hour chart checks.
  • Provide patient and family education, orient patients to their room and unit, explain the plan of care, identify knowledge deficits related to diagnoses and care, and provide MICROMEDEX information.
  • Collaborate with case managers and physicians on discharge planning, complete transfer paperwork, and ensure patient belongings accompany the patient.
  • Use patient care equipment safely and appropriately according to manufacturer guidelines, including intravenous, feeding, patient-controlled analgesia, and epidural pumps; sequential compression devices; wound vacuum systems; and heating pads and pumps.
  • Communicate with healthcare team members, patients, and families through shift reports, physician rounds, patient and family interactions, MDP rounds, handoff reports, facility email, and communication with students and new or contract employees.
  • Organize and prioritize responsibilities, manage time effectively, take meal breaks without incurring overtime, and complete shifts on time.
  • Follow regulatory and safety requirements, including National Patient Safety Goals, patient identification, approved abbreviations, universal protocol and procedural time-outs, handoffs, medication reconciliation, clinical alarms, hazardous waste handling, biohazard and sharps safety, HIPAA, OSHA requirements, continuous survey readiness, critical-value communication, telephone orders, safe body mechanics, electrical safety, infection control, and handwashing.
  • Manage medical-surgical patients, including those undergoing total hip arthroplasty, total knee arthroplasty, and spinal surgery; maintain isolation precautions and respiratory and nutrition care for cystic fibrosis patients; manage medications and protective isolation for abdominal organ transplant patients; and institute safety precautions and skin care for patients with hepatic encephalopathy.
  • Manage complex critically ill intensive care patients, including neurosurgery, thoracic foregut, gastric bypass, orthopedic, liver, kidney, pancreas, hepatobiliary, open-heart, heart-transplant, and lung-transplant patients; manage advanced therapeutic modalities including hemodynamic monitoring, continuous renal replacement therapy, continuous venovenous hemodialysis, ventriculostomy, intracranial pressure monitoring, ventricular assist devices, and balloon pumps.
  • Manage high-acuity step-down and telemetry patients requiring specialized monitoring and care, including patients after open-heart, heart, lung, liver, or kidney transplants, orthopedic and hepatobiliary procedures, general surgery, thoracic foregut procedures, gastric bypass, neurology, and neurosurgery; manage ventilators, arterial and central venous pressure lines, ventricular assist devices, and lumbar drains.
  • Initiate, perform, and terminate dialysis treatments according to policy and standards of care; review orders and laboratory results before treatment; inform patients of treatment plans; complete dialysis treatment documentation; perform pre-treatment safety checks and machine maintenance; check charts for dialysis orders before bringing equipment to the unit; contact physicians early when dialysis orders lack treatment instructions; and complete medical-surgical dialysis treatments on 3S when more than two such patients are scheduled.
  • Engage psychiatric patients in therapeutic interactions and maintain a therapeutic milieu; assess and monitor patient safety, including contraband checks at admission, each shift, and as needed; initiate and participate in treatment planning; monitor locked unit doors; log visitors and assess for contraband; track patients’ legal status each shift and communicate with the Department of Mental Health and other agencies as required; administer psychotropic medications only with proper consent and documentation; and submit firearm reporting forms.
  • Use de-escalation techniques to prevent behavioral restraint or seclusion when possible; apply restraint or seclusion when appropriate; continuously monitor patient safety or delegate monitoring; ensure physician assessment within one hour of application and at least every eight hours thereafter; obtain physician orders; notify the manager of behavioral restraint incidents; contact significant others as permitted; and complete debriefing with the patient when appropriate.
  • Accurately identify patients meeting core-measure criteria, complete core-measure documentation, and participate in data collection and process improvement related to nurse-sensitive quality indicators.
  • Participate in professional hospital and nursing activities, including relief charge nurse duties, nursing committees and councils, hospital teams, unit-based projects, research, and publication of peer-reviewed articles.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.
Desired Qualifications
  • Specialty certification is preferred.

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