Full-Time
Registered Nurse Clinical
University of Southern California
Research university in Los Angeles, CA
Compensation Overview
$44 - $95/hr
Los Angeles, CA, USA
In Person
Bachelor's
Category
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
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Required Skills
Infection Control
Medication Administration
OSHA
ACLS
HIPAA
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Patient Education
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Requirements
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing is required, with employees hired before December 2019 grandfathered from the Bachelor of Science in Nursing requirement.
- At least one 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 successfully perform duties, including whole blood collection and apheresis procedures, in accordance with administrative and clinical policies, regulations, and procedures are required.
- The ability to work independently with minimal direction and supervision is required.
- A California Registered Nurse license from the California Board of Registered Nursing is required.
- Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider certification from the American Heart Association is required.
- Fire Life Safety Training from the City of Los Angeles is required; if no card is available upon hire, it must be obtained within 30 days of hire and maintained by renewal before expiration.
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Healthcare Provider certification from the American Heart Association is required for intensive care, step-down, and telemetry departments; nurses without prior telemetry or critical-care experience must obtain it within 180 days or by the end of orientation, whichever is sooner.
Responsibilities
- Provide therapeutic care to patients as an integral part of the interdisciplinary team using the nursing process.
- Coordinate patient care and provide education to patients and families in accordance with standards, policies, and practices.
- Complete nursing assessments upon admission, each shift, and when the patient’s condition changes, and complete patient acuity assessments by 0200 and 1400 daily.
- Interpret assessment information and formulate nursing diagnoses.
- Develop individualized plans of care, document expected or projected patient outcomes, and review, revise, and update plans of care daily based on evaluation and interpretation of patient outcomes.
- Administer medications and intravenous therapy at prescribed intervals and complete patient-care procedures according to policy.
- Delegate tasks based on others’ scope of practice and competency and act as a patient advocate.
- Manage restraint use according to policy, including attempting alternative non-restraint measures, ensuring physician orders and assessments, monitoring patients, and completing restraint audit forms each shift.
- Complete admission, pain, daily flow-sheet, restraint, diabetes, educational, Kardex, care-plan, risk-assessment, medication-administration-record, equipment-and-supplies, transfer, and belongings-tracking documentation, as applicable.
- 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, including room or unit orientation, plan-of-care education, identification of knowledge deficits, and use of Micromedex information.
- Collaborate with the case manager and physician 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 or pumps.
- Communicate effectively with healthcare-team members, patients, and families through shift reports, physician rounds, patient and family interactions, multidisciplinary rounds, handoff reports, facility email, and student or employee interactions.
- Organize and prioritize responsibilities, take meal breaks without incurring overtime, and complete shifts on time.
- Observe regulatory-agency requirements, including National Patient Safety Goals, patient identifiers, universal protocol, handoffs, medication reconciliation, clinical alarms, hazardous-waste and biohazard procedures, medication and sharps safety, HIPAA, OSHA requirements, continuous survey readiness, critical-value communication, and infection-control procedures.
- Manage medical-surgical patients with total hip arthroplasty, total knee arthroplasty, spinal surgery, cystic fibrosis, abdominal-organ transplants, and hepatic encephalopathy, including applicable isolation, respiratory, nutrition, medication, safety, and skin-care requirements.
- Manage complex critically ill intensive-care patients and 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 and advanced modalities, including ventilator care, 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; educate patients; complete treatment documentation; perform safety checks and machine maintenance; and coordinate missing treatment orders with physicians.
- Manage psychiatric patients through therapeutic interactions, maintenance of a therapeutic milieu, safety and contraband assessments, treatment planning, visitor monitoring, legal-status communication, properly authorized psychotropic medication administration, and firearm-report submission.
- Apply behavioral restraint and seclusion procedures when appropriate, continuously monitor patient safety, obtain physician orders and assessments, notify the manager, contact significant others when permitted, and complete post-incident debriefing.
- Identify patients meeting core-measure criteria, complete core-measure documentation, and participate in data collection and process improvements related to nurse-sensitive quality indicators.
- Participate in professional hospital and nursing activities, including relief charge-nurse duties, committees or councils, hospital teams, unit-based projects, research, and publication of peer-reviewed articles.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Desired Qualifications
- Specialty Certification.
The University of Southern California is a private research university with academic programs across the arts, sciences, business, engineering, law, health, and other professional fields.
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