Registered Nurse - Outpatient Infusion Center
$48.30 - $72.45
Mid
Bachelor's, Master's
Visalia, CA, USA
In Person
Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryNursing & Frontline Patient Care
About the job
Requirements
- A California registered nurse license is required.
- Basic Life Support certification is required.
- Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and services appropriate to the population served on the assigned unit or work area.
- Understands growth and development needs across patient and family cultural, linguistic, spiritual, gender, and age-specific needs.
- Effectively communicates with and cares for patients and families as reflected in the Plan for Provision of Care.
- Maintains competency in intravenous therapy, infusion pumps, and emergency response procedures when assigned to the Infusion Center.
Responsibilities
- Protects and promotes health, prevents illness and injury, and alleviates suffering through nursing diagnosis and treatment.
- Provides holistic care and advocates for patients and families through professional nursing practice and oversight of the interdisciplinary healthcare team.
- Maintains professional behavior, follows the Code of Ethics, and treats coworkers respectfully in accordance with organizational values.
- Identifies high-risk patients and initiates intervention by ancillary departments.
- Makes ethical decisions and actions on behalf of patients and residents.
- Maintains patient confidentiality within legal and regulatory parameters.
- Acts as a patient and resident advocate and helps patients and residents develop self-advocacy skills.
- Delivers care in a nonjudgmental and nondiscriminatory manner that preserves patient autonomy, dignity, and rights.
- Uses the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, outcome identification, implementation, and evaluation; practice is assessed through observation, peer reviews, audits, and documentation.
- Uses quality-of-care and performance-improvement results to initiate changes in nursing practice.
- Collects clinical data to monitor care quality and effectiveness, identifies important quality-monitoring measures, and recommends improvements to nursing practice or patient and resident outcomes.
- Assists in developing and implementing policies, procedures, and practice guidelines to improve care quality and nursing practice.
- Participates in interdisciplinary teams that evaluate clinical practice or health services related to patient and resident care.
- Participates in quality-improvement studies, task forces, or committees; implements improvements based on unit study results, independently identifies problem areas and recommends solutions, shares study and audit findings, and pursues improvement.
- Collaborates and communicates with patients, residents, families, and other healthcare providers; uses peer review and observation and monitors documentation for appropriate referrals.
- Formulates plans of care with patient and resident involvement in decisions about care and service delivery.
- Makes referrals and provides for continuity of care as needed.
- Serves as a primary clinical resource and role model for staff on the assigned unit, provides staff leadership and support through problem-solving and decision-making, and represents the Nurse Manager in their absence.
- Supports nurse preceptors and new employees during orientation and provides input on employee evaluations.
- Ensures float staff receive floor orientation and feel welcome.
- Makes and adjusts staff assignments based on staff abilities and patient population needs.
- Assigns admissions and coordinates transfers with the Nurse Manager, House Supervisor, or Bed Coordinator.
- Ensures shift reports start on time and monitors breaks to maintain adequate staffing.
- Determines staffing needs for the next shift and communicates them to the Staff Facilitator or Nursing Supervisor.
- Assigns staff to complete equipment checks, including PCX controls, crash carts, refrigerator temperatures, red books, and narcotic counts.
- Coordinates care during high-risk or emergent situations and keeps the Nurse Manager, Director, or Nursing Supervisor informed about critical patients and unit issues.
- Ensures collaboration among staff, physicians, other providers, and departments involved in patient care and maintains open communication.
- Ensures patient care issues are documented and reported and that the appropriate nurse completes a Statement of Concern.
- Uses the Medical Staff and Kaweah Health chain of command.
- Provides employee guidance and alerts the Nurse Manager to counseling needs.
- Provides patient care as needed and makes fiscally responsible decisions about staffing and patient supplies.
- When assigned to the Infusion Center, assigns patients to infusion chairs and initiates nursing intake.
- When assigned to the Infusion Center, educates patients about upcoming medications and therapies.
- When assigned to the Infusion Center, starts peripheral intravenous lines or accesses central venous access devices, including PICC and Port-a-Cath lines, and administers infusions as ordered by physicians.
- When assigned to the Infusion Center, monitors vital signs and patient status throughout treatment.
- When assigned to the Infusion Center, reconciles medications and obtains patient histories.
- When assigned to the Infusion Center, administers intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, and oral medications, intravenous hydration, blood transfusions, and dressing changes.
- When assigned to the Infusion Center, completes infusion documentation, discontinues intravenous lines, and provides discharge instructions.
- When assigned to the Infusion Center, provides telephone triage and patient education about side effects, symptom management, and available resources.
- When assigned to the Wound Center, collaborates with physicians, inpatient and outpatient nurses, and Wound Center staff to coordinate care.
- When assigned to the Wound Center, case-manages assigned patients by planning, implementing, and evaluating their care.
- When assigned to the Wound Center, ensures patients and families receive comprehensive education about wound management and underlying health conditions.
- When assigned to the Wound Center, works with appropriate autonomy in the wound center and hyperbaric setting.
- When assigned to the Wound Center, serves as a nursing-practice resource for staff, management, and other healthcare team members.
- When assigned to the Wound Center, facilitates staff development and education and assists in developing and maintaining Wound Center policies and procedures.
- When assigned to the Wound Center, meets continuing-education requirements, participates in hyperbaric-related organizations, and completes required Healogics training, competency assessments, and ongoing education approved by Kaweah Health leadership.
- When assigned to the Wound Center, follows applicable clinical protocols, operational procedures, documentation standards, and Healogics workflows.
- When assigned to the Wound Center, aligns work with the wound care program's performance expectations, quality measures, and operational requirements.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Desired Qualifications
- A Bachelor of Science in Nursing or Master of Science in Nursing is preferred, or the candidate may currently be enrolled in an RN-to-BSN program.
About the company
Kaweah Health is a public, not-for-profit health system based in Visalia, California, serving the Central Valley since 1963. It operates a 581-bed medical center, a large outpatient clinic, and several facilities, offering emergency care, cancer treatment, cardiovascular services, rehabilitation, and other medical services. It is the largest hospital system in Tulare County and a certified trauma center. As a not-for-profit, it reinvests earnings back into the community to fund new services, facilities, and programs, with a strategic focus on accessible, high-quality healthcare. The organization has launched an financial recovery plan, “Operation Back in Black,” to improve finances through revenue enhancement and cost reduction, and partners with Medline to enhance supply chain and operational efficiency. Its goal is to provide broad, high-quality healthcare to its community while strengthening financial sustainability and expanding services as needed.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Grant
Total Funding
$8.7M
Headquarters
Visalia, California
Founded
1963
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- Kaweah reported $1.1 million profit for fiscal 2026's first six months.
- Vacant-position cuts, not layoffs, helped offset projected $25 million Medicaid pressure.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Holidays
- Flexible Work Hours