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University of Southern California

Research university in Los Angeles, CA

Registered Nurse - 8 E Pulmonary Medicine Telemetry

Full-TimePosted on 10/22/2026
$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; the requirement is grandfathered for employees hired before December 2019.
  • One year of acute inpatient hospital experience as a registered nurse in the United States is required.
  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to speak, read, and write English proficiently, are required.
  • 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.
  • Commitment to excellence in patient care and customer service is required.
  • Ability to work independently with minimal direction and supervision is required.
  • A California Registered Nurse license is required.
  • Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider certification from the American Heart Association is required.
  • Los Angeles City Fire Life Safety Training is required; if the applicant does not have a card upon hire, it must be obtained within 30 days and kept current through renewal.
Responsibilities
  • Provide therapeutic care to patients using the nursing process as an integral member of the interdisciplinary team.
  • Coordinate patient care and education for patients and families in accordance with standards, policies, and practices in a compassionate, supportive, and therapeutic environment.
  • Follow policies and procedures and demonstrate the ability to access online manuals.
  • Apply learned scientific knowledge in the nursing process.
  • Complete nursing assessments upon admission, each shift, and when a patient’s condition changes; complete patient acuity assessments by 0200/1400 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 appropriately at prescribed intervals and perform patient-care procedures according to policy and schedule.
  • Delegate tasks according to others’ scope of practice and competency, and act as a patient advocate.
  • Manage restraint use according to policy, attempt alternative non-restraint measures first, ensure physician orders and assessments are complete, ensure patient monitoring, and complete the restraint audit form each shift.
  • Complete documentation accurately on flow sheets and chart forms, including admission assessments; pain assessments and reassessments; daily, restraint, diabetes, and educational flow sheets; Kardex; care plans; risk assessments and reassessments after falls; medication administration records; equipment and supplies records; transfer forms; and belongings tracking forms.
  • Ensure orders are transcribed and signed off before the end of the shift and complete 12- and 24-hour chart checks.
  • Educate patients and families as needed on room and unit orientation and plans of care; identify knowledge deficits related to diagnoses and care; and use and provide MICROMEDEX information.
  • Collaborate with case managers and/or physicians on discharge planning, complete transfer paperwork, and ensure patient belongings are sent with the patient.
  • Use patient-care equipment safely and appropriately according to manufacturer guidelines, including intravenous pumps, feeding pumps, patient-controlled analgesia pumps, epidural pumps, sequential compression devices, wound vacuum systems, and heating pads or pumps.
  • Communicate effectively with the healthcare team, patients, and families during shift reports, physician rounds, patient and family interactions, multidisciplinary rounds, handoffs, facility email, and interactions with students and new or contract employees.
  • Manage time, 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, approved abbreviations, Universal Protocol, handoffs, medication reconciliation, clinical alarms, hazardous-waste and biohazard procedures, medication and sharps safety, HIPAA, OSHA requirements, and continuous survey readiness.
  • Handle critical values and telephone orders appropriately, including writing down, reading back, and following up on critical values, and ensuring telephone orders are appropriate, documented, signed, timed, dated, stamped, and entered into the unit log.
  • Maintain safe work practices, including correct body mechanics, electrical safety, infection-control procedures, and hand washing.
  • Manage medical-surgical patients, including patients with total hip or knee arthroplasty, spinal surgery, cystic fibrosis, abdominal organ transplants, and hepatic encephalopathy, using appropriate isolation, respiratory, nutrition, medication, safety, and skin-care precautions.
  • Manage complex critically ill intensive-care patients, including neurosurgery, thoracic foregut, gastric bypass, orthopedic, liver, kidney, pancreas, hepatobiliary, open-heart, heart-transplant, and lung-transplant patients.
  • Manage advanced intensive-care therapies, including hemodynamic monitoring, continuous renal replacement therapy, continuous venovenous hemodialysis, ventriculostomy, intracranial pressure monitoring, ventricular assist devices, and balloon pumps.
  • Manage high-acuity stepdown and telemetry patients requiring specialized monitoring and care, including patients after open-heart surgery, heart or lung transplants, liver or kidney transplants, orthopedic, hepatobiliary, general, thoracic foregut, gastric bypass, neurology, and neurosurgery procedures.
  • 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 records, perform pretreatment safety checks, and maintain dialysis machines according to policy.
  • Check charts for dialysis orders before arriving on units with dialysis equipment, contact physicians early when dialysis orders lack treatment orders, and complete medical-surgical dialysis treatments on 3S when more than two such patients are scheduled.
  • Engage psychiatric patients in therapeutic interactions and maintain a therapeutic milieu.
  • Assess and monitor psychiatric patient safety, including contraband assessments on admission, at shift changes, and as needed; initiate and participate in treatment planning; monitor locked unit doors; log visitors and assess for contraband; and follow patients’ legal status each shift while communicating with the Department of Mental Health and other agencies as required.
  • Administer psychotropic medication only after obtaining proper consent and documentation, and submit Firearms Reporting Forms.
  • Use de-escalation techniques to prevent behavioral restraint or seclusion when possible; apply restraint or seclusion when appropriate; continuously monitor patient safety or delegate monitoring appropriately; ensure physician assessment within one hour of application and at least every eight hours thereafter; obtain physician orders; notify the manager of restraint incidents; contact significant others as permitted; and complete post-incident debriefing with the patient 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 published peer-reviewed articles.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.
Desired Qualifications
  • Specialty certification is preferred.

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