University of Southern California

Research university in Los Angeles, CA

Registered Nurse Clinical Lead - 6 S Tele

Nursing & Frontline Patient CareUpdated on Nov 13

Part-timeLos Angeles, CA, USA$49.20 - $104 /hrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree in Nursing from an accredited school of nursing (BSN) is required.
Two years of nursing experience within an abdominal transplant inpatient setting are required.
Two years of nursing experience in an acute care setting immediately prior to application are required.
Strong critical and strategic thinking, analytical, and planning skills are required.
Organization and time management skills are required.
Excellent communication skills are required.
An active Registered Nurse license from the California Department of Consumer Affairs is required.
Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider certification from the American Heart Association is required.
Fire Life Safety Training for Los Angeles City is required; if not held at 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.

Responsibilities

Complete an initial unit assessment at the beginning of each shift, including formal rounds, population-specific patient assessment, and discussion of patient care with staff.
Assess staff competencies and the appropriateness of staff assignments.
Provide direct patient care and identify actual or potential patient or staff safety risks.
Gather information about potential admissions and discharges through schedules, shift reports, interviews, and collaboration with physicians and the healthcare team.
Observe and ensure compliance with National Patient Safety Goals and continually reassess unit and patient needs.
Identify potential barriers to admissions, discharges, and transfers.
Assess staffing needs for the oncoming shift using patient acuity and staff competencies.
Ensure complete and accurate documentation of patient acuity, staffing, and breaks as required by Title 22.
Communicate the projected staffing plan to the Patient Flow Center each shift in a timely manner.
Delegate and direct unit activities and patient assignments through professional, respectful, and effective communication.
Support unit and organizational staffing and operational needs by taking a patient assignment.
Ensure completion of required unit routines, including resolving narcotic discrepancies and overrides, checking the crash cart, and completing other assigned unit-specific tasks.
Meet with patients and families regarding feedback and follow up on issues using KNOWN Standards.
Ensure prompt staff responses to patient call lights and other patient needs.
Ensure staff breaks and appropriate break coverage, and approve overtime and missed meals as needed.
Require ill or injured staff to obtain medical evaluation and complete required forms.
Initiate, direct, assign, and coordinate staff duties during drills, emergencies, or disasters.
Evaluate and modify staffing plans, patient care assignments, skill mix, break assignments, and coverage to maintain patient safety, avoid delays in patient flow, and provide allotted break time.
Act as a clinical resource and support, and stay informed about clinical, unit, organizational, and medical center updates and changes.
Orient float, traveler, registry, and volunteer staff to the unit.
Model compassion, understanding, problem solving, and conflict resolution among staff while assisting patients and families experiencing difficulty with illness or hospitalization, and maintain good public relations.
Share clinical, unit, department, and medical center updates with staff through shift huddles and other directed communication methods.
Apply evidence-based practice in clinical decision-making.
Participate in assigned unit, departmental, and organizational activities.
Inform multidisciplinary team members about patient-care protocols and guidelines.
Partner with unit leadership to make daily staffing assignments in accordance with budgeted hours per patient day and provide rationale for staffing variances.
Pursue professional development opportunities, including certifications, nursing committees, unit-based projects, research, and publication of peer-reviewed articles.
Collaborate effectively with other disciplines and providers to meet patient and staff needs.
Follow policies and procedures and use online manuals.
Apply scientific knowledge through the Nursing Process.
Complete nursing assessments upon patient admission, each shift, and when a patient’s condition changes; complete patient acuity documentation by 0200/1400 daily, except in ETC, using Optilink.
Interpret assessment information and formulate nursing diagnoses.
Develop individualized plans of care, document expected patient outcomes, and review, revise, and update plans daily based on patient outcomes.
Administer medications and intravenous therapy at prescribed intervals and perform patient care procedures correctly and at required intervals.
Delegate tasks according to others’ scope of practice and competency, and act as a patient advocate.
Manage restraint use according to policy.
Complete accurate documentation in the Electronic Health Record.
Provide patient and family education as needed.
Collaborate with the case manager and/or physician on discharge planning.
Use patient-care equipment safely and appropriately according to manufacturer guidelines.
Communicate effectively with healthcare team members, patients, and families.
Organize and prioritize responsibilities and manage time effectively.
Observe regulatory agency requirements.
Manage post-surgical patients according to the expected level of care.
Manage complex, critically ill patients in intensive care settings according to the expected level of care.
Manage high-acuity patients requiring specialized monitoring and care in stepdown and telemetry units.
Identify and participate in data collection and process improvements related to Nurse Sensitive Quality Indicators.
Perform other assigned duties, including unit activities such as process improvement, precepting, peer education, and changing assignments to meet patient needs.

Desired Qualifications

Specialty certification is preferred.

N7073 - RN - Clinical, Lead (Union) CM1726608300

Job Summary

The Nurse Lead is a Registered Nurse who works under the direction of the manager to facilitate safe and efficient operational flow of the nursing unit. The Nurse Lead is the first line clinical support for staff, physicians and other providers. Through interprofessional collaboration, the Nurse Lead will ensure that patient and staff needs are met while coordinating the patient flow into and out of the unit. The Nurse Lead will also contribute to patient care by taking a patient assignment. This clinician will function as part of interprofessional teams by communicating, planning, and implementing care directly with other healthcare professionals, including physicians, pharmacists, social workers, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners.

Departmental Specific Summary

Essential Duties

ASSESSMENT 1. Completes an initial unit assessment at the beginning of the shift a. Makes formal rounds to include population specific patient assessment and interaction with staff regarding patient care b. Assesses staff competencies and appropriateness of staff assignments c. Provides direct patient care d. Identifies actual or potential patient or staff safety risks e. Collects information about potential admission and discharges by review of information from the admissions schedule, shift report, patient, family and/or nurse interview and collaboration with physicians and the health care team 2. Observes and ensures National Patient Safety Goals 3. Continually reassesses unit and patient needs 4. Identifies potential barriers to admission, discharges and transfers 5. Assesses unit staffing needs for the oncoming shift using patient acuity and oncoming staff competencies. 6. Ensures complete and accurate documentation of patient acuity, staffing, and breaks as required per Title 22.
PLANNING 7. Ensures timely communication of projected staffing plan to Patient Flow Center each shift
INTERVENTION 8. Utilizes professional, respectful, effective communication to delegate and direct unit activities and patient assignments 9. Supports the staffing and operational needs of the unit and organization by taking a patient assignment 10. Ensures completion of required unit routines including resolution of narcotic discrepancies and overrides, crash cart check, and other unit specific tasks as assigned 11. Meets with patient and family regarding feedback and follows-up with issues utilizing the KNOWN Standards 12. Ensures and facilitates staff’s prompt patient call light response and response to patient needs as appropriate 13. Ensures staff breaks and appropriate break coverage, approves overtime and missed meals as needed. 14. Requires ill/injured staff to have medical evaluation and complete required forms 15. Initiates, directs, assigns, and coordinates duties to be performed by staff responding to drills, emergencies, or disasters
EVALUATION 16. Evaluates and modifies staffing plan, patient care assignments, skill mix, break assignment and coverage to ensure patient safety, avoid delays in the flow of patient admissions, discharges and transfers and to provide staff allotted time for breaks
LEADING AND ROLE MODELING 17. Acts as a clinical resource and support 18. Keeps informed of clinical / unit / organizational updates / changes 19. Ensures that floats, travelers, registry staff and volunteers are oriented to the unit 20. Models compassion, understanding, problem solving and conflict resolution skills amongst the staff to assist patients and families having difficulty coping with their illness and/or hospitalization and maintains good public relations 21. Consistently keeps current on clinical, unit, department and medical center changes; shares information with staff members by facilitating shift huddles and utilizing all forms of communication as directed by Unit Manager 22. Models expertise through the application of evidenced-based practice in clinical decision making 23. Demonstrates enthusiasm and commitment to the unit, department and organization’s mission and goals 24. Participates in unit, departmental or organizational activities as assigned 25. Informs multidisciplinary team members in protocols and guidelines of care related to patients. 26. Partners with Unit Leadership in making daily staffing assignments in accordance with budgeted hours per patient day and provides rationale for any staffing variances. 27. Seeks out opportunities for professional development (e.g. certifications, nursing committees, unit based projects, research, published peer review article) 28. Effectively collaborates with other disciplines and providers to meet the needs of patients and fellow staff members
DIRECT PATIENT CARE ACCOUNTABILITIES 29. Follows policies and procedures; demonstrates ability to access online manuals. 30. Transfers learned scientific knowledge into practical application in applying the Nursing Process. 31. ASSESSMENT Appropriately completes Nursing Assessment upon patient admission, at each shift and with change of condition. Completes patient acuity by 0200/1400 daily (except ETC) – Optilink 32. DIAGNOSIS Interprets assessment information and formulates Nursing Diagnoses 33. PLAN – IPOC Develops Plans of Care with individualized interventions. Documents expected/projected patient outcomes. Reviews/Revises/Updates Plans of Care daily based on evaluation and interpretation of patient outcomes 34. INTERVENTION Administers medication and IV therapy appropriately at prescribed intervals. Completes patient care procedures correctly per policy at prescribed intervals. Delegates tasks based on others’ scope of practice and competency. Acts as patient advocate. 35. Manages restraint use per policy 36. DOCUMENTATION Documentation is complete and correct in Electronic Health Record 37. EDUCATION Provides patient/family education as needed 38. TRANSFER AND DISCHARGE Collaborates with Case Manager and/or physician regarding discharge planning. 39. EQUIPMENT Utilizes patient care equipment appropriately and safely according to manufacture guidelines (e.g.) 40. COMMUNICATION Communicates effectively with all members of the healthcare team including patient and family 41. ORGANIZATION Manages time effectively. Able to organize and prioritize responsibilities. 42. OBSERVES REGULATORY AGENCY REQUIREMENTS 43. Measure based on the appropriate level of care expected: MANAGEMENT OF THE CARE OF MEDICAL SURGICAL PATIENTS Demonstrates the ability to manage post surgical patients MANAGEMENT OF THE CARE OF PATIENTS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT/S Demonstrates the ability to manage complex critically ill patients MANAGEMENT OF THE CARE OF PATIENTS IN THE STEPDOWN/TELEMETRY UNITS Demonstrates the ability to manage high acuity patients requiring specialized monitoring and care 44. QUALITY MEASURES Identifies and participates in data collection and process improvements related to Nurse Sensitive Quality Indicators 45. Performs other duties as assigned. (Examples: Enthusiastic participation in unit activities such as process improvement efforts, preceptor, peer education; changing assignment to meet patient needs, etc.)

Qualifications

Req Bachelor's degree Nursing Graduate from an accredited school of Nursing (BSN).

Req 2 years nursing experience within an abdominal transplant inpatient setting

Req 2 years Nursing in an acute care setting immediately prior to application.

Req Strong critical and strategic thinking, analytical and planning skills.
Req Organization/time management skills.
Req Excellent communication skills.

Req Registered Nurse - RN (CA DCA)
Req Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider from American Heart Association
Req Fire Life Safety Training (LA City) If no card upon hire, one must be obtained within 30 days of hire and maintained by renewal before expiration date. (Required within LA City only)
Req Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Healthcare Provider from American Heart Association
Pref Specialty Certification

Keck Hospital of USC, a 343-bed acute care hospital, provides exceptional and innovative care for complex medical and surgical conditions across a wide range of specialties. The hospital’s world-renowned physicians deliver compassionate, customized, patient-centered care and treat the most acutely ill patients with highly innovative techniques and treatment plans. As a leading academic medical center, hundreds of clinical trials are currently taking place at Keck Hospital and its affiliated research institutions, giving patients access to novel and promising therapies that are generally not available elsewhere. Every day at Keck Hospital, physicians, nurses and staff go beyond the science of exceptional medicine to bring patients breakthroughs in the art of caring. Join this world-class team providing highly specialized care, up-to-the-minute research, and innovative clinical trials.

The hourly rate range for this position is $49.20 - $104.00.
When extending an offer of employment, the University of Southern California considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate’s work experience,
education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, federal, state, and local laws, contractual stipulations, grant funding, as well as external market and organizational considerations.

USC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law or USC policy. USC observes affirmative action obligations consistent with state and federal law. USC will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal records in a manner consistent with applicable laws and regulations, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for employers and the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and with due consideration for patient and student safety. Please refer to theBackground Screening Policy Appendix Dfor specific employment screen implications for the position for which you are applying.

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