Full-Time
Registered Nurse
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
Medication Administration
Patient Care
ACLS
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Patient Education
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Requirements
- A Bachelor's Degree in Nursing is required, with grandfathering from the BSN requirement for nurses hired before December 2019.
- Graduation from an accredited school of Nursing is required.
- 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 is required, including the ability to perform whole blood collection and apheresis procedures in accordance with administrative and clinical policies, regulations, and procedures.
- A commitment to excellence in patient care and customer service is required.
- The ability to work independently with minimal direction and supervision is required.
- A 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 Los Angeles City Fire Department is required; if unavailable at hire, it must be obtained within 30 days and renewed before expiration.
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Healthcare Provider certification from the American Heart Association is required.
Responsibilities
- Use the nursing process to provide therapeutic care to patients as part of an interdisciplinary team.
- Coordinate patient care and provide education to patients and families according to applicable standards, policies, and practices.
- Follow policies and procedures and access online manuals as needed.
- Apply scientific knowledge in practical nursing-process applications.
- Complete nursing assessments upon admission, each shift, and when a patient's condition changes, and complete patient acuity assessments by 0200 or 1400 daily.
- Interpret assessment information and formulate nursing diagnoses.
- Develop individualized plans of care, document expected or projected outcomes, and review, revise, and update plans daily based on evaluation 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, act as a patient advocate, and manage restraint use according to policy.
- Complete required documentation on flow sheets and chart forms, transcribe and sign off orders 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 information, diagnosis-related education, and 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 equipment, and heating pads or pumps.
- Communicate effectively with the healthcare team, patients, and families through shift reports, physician rounds, patient and family interactions, multidisciplinary rounds, handoff reports, facility email, and student or employee communications.
- Organize and prioritize responsibilities, take meal breaks without incurring overtime, and complete the shift on time.
- Observe regulatory agency and patient-safety requirements, including patient identification, universal protocol, handoffs, medication reconciliation, clinical alarms, hazardous-waste and biohazard procedures, HIPAA, OSHA, Joint Commission readiness, critical-value communication, infection control, handwashing, and workplace safety.
- Manage medical-surgical patients, including patients with total hip arthroplasty, total knee arthroplasty, spinal surgery, cystic fibrosis, abdominal organ transplants, and hepatic encephalopathy.
- Manage complex critically ill intensive-care patients and advanced therapeutic modalities, including hemodynamic monitoring, continuous renal replacement therapy, ventriculostomy, intracranial-pressure monitoring, ventricular assist devices, and balloon pumps.
- Manage high-acuity stepdown and telemetry patients requiring specialized monitoring and care, including transplant, orthopedic, hepatobiliary, general-surgery, thoracic, gastric-bypass, neurology, and neurosurgery patients.
- Manage advanced stepdown and telemetry 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; inform patients of treatment plans; complete treatment documentation and safety checks; maintain equipment; and coordinate missing dialysis orders with physicians.
- Manage psychiatric patients through therapeutic interactions, maintenance of a therapeutic milieu, safety and contraband assessments, treatment planning, visitor monitoring, legal-status tracking, coordination with mental-health agencies, consent-based psychotropic medication administration, and required firearm reporting.
- Use de-escalation techniques and apply behavioral restraint or seclusion when appropriate; continuously monitor patient safety; obtain physician assessments and orders; notify the manager; contact significant others as permitted; and complete post-incident debriefing.
- Accurately 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, nursing committees or councils, hospital teams, unit-based projects, and research.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Desired Qualifications
- Specialty certification.
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