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University of Southern California

Research university in Los Angeles, CA

RN Clinical

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$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 is required; employees hired before December 2019 are grandfathered from the BSN requirement.
  • At least one year of acute inpatient hospital experience in the United States is required.
  • English proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing is required.
  • 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.
  • A current 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 for the City of Los Angeles is required; if not held upon hire, it must be obtained within 30 days and maintained through renewal before expiration.
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Healthcare Provider certification from the American Heart Association is required for Intensive Care, Step-down, and Telemetry.
  • The ability to work independently with minimal direction and supervision is required.
Responsibilities
  • Use the nursing process to provide therapeutic care to patients and coordinate patient care and education for patients and families in accordance with applicable standards, policies, and practices.
  • Follow policies and procedures and demonstrate the ability to access online manuals.
  • Apply scientific knowledge in the Nursing Process.
  • Complete nursing assessments at admission, each shift, and upon changes in condition, and complete patient acuity assessments by 0200 or 1400 daily.
  • Interpret assessment information and formulate nursing diagnoses.
  • Develop individualized plans of care, document expected outcomes, and review, revise, and update plans daily based on evaluation of patient outcomes.
  • Administer medications and intravenous therapy at prescribed intervals, perform patient-care procedures according to policy, and 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 required physician orders, assessments, monitoring, and restraint audit forms are completed each shift.
  • Complete and accurately maintain required documentation, including assessments, pain scales, flow sheets, care plans, risk assessments, medication administration records, transfer forms, and equipment and belongings records; ensure orders are transcribed and signed before the end of the shift and complete 12-hour or 24-hour chart checks.
  • Provide patient and family education, orient them to the room or unit and plan of care, identify knowledge deficits related to diagnoses and care, and use and provide Micromedex information.
  • Collaborate with the case manager and/or 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 IV, 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, handoffs, facility email, and interactions with students and employees.
  • Organize and prioritize responsibilities, manage time, take meal breaks without incurring overtime, and complete shifts on time.
  • Follow regulatory and safety requirements, including patient identification, approved abbreviations, universal protocol, handoffs, medication reconciliation, clinical alarms, hazardous-waste handling, HIPAA, OSHA, continuous survey readiness, critical-value communications, safe body mechanics, electrical safety, infection control, and handwashing.
  • Manage medical-surgical patients, including patients with total hip or knee arthroplasty and spinal surgery, and patients requiring isolation, respiratory, nutrition, transplant, or hepatic encephalopathy care.
  • Manage complex critically ill patients and advanced therapies in intensive care, including hemodynamic monitoring, continuous renal replacement therapy, ventriculostomy and 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; inform patients of treatment plans; document treatments; complete safety checks and machine maintenance; verify dialysis orders; contact physicians when treatment orders are missing; and complete medical-surgical dialysis treatments on 3S when more than two such patients are scheduled.
  • Provide care to psychiatric patients through therapeutic interactions, maintaining a therapeutic milieu, assessing and monitoring safety and contraband, participating in treatment planning, monitoring locked doors, logging visitors, following and communicating patients’ legal status, administering psychotropic medications with proper consent and documentation, and submitting firearm reporting forms.
  • Use de-escalation to prevent behavioral restraint or seclusion when possible; apply restraint or seclusion when appropriate, monitor patient safety, ensure timely physician assessment and orders, notify the manager of incidents, contact significant others as permitted, and complete debriefings when appropriate.
  • Identify patients who meet 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 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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