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University of Southern California

Research university in Los Angeles, CA

Registered Nurse Clinical - 6 S Tele

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 (BSN) 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.
  • Must be able to speak, read, and write English proficiently.
  • Must know medical procedures and conditions and be able to understand, follow, and successfully perform duties, including whole blood collection and apheresis procedures, in accordance with administrative and clinical policies, regulations, and procedures.
  • Must be a Registered Nurse licensed by the California Board of Registered Nursing.
  • Must hold Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider certification from the American Heart Association.
  • Must have LA City Fire Life Safety Training; if not held upon hire, it must be obtained within 30 days and maintained through renewal before expiration. This requirement applies within LA City only.
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Healthcare Provider certification from the American Heart Association is required for Intensive Care, Step-down, and Telemetry.
Responsibilities
  • Use the nursing process to provide therapeutic patient care and coordinate care and patient/family education in accordance with standards, policies, and practices.
  • Follow policies and procedures and demonstrate the ability to access online manuals.
  • Apply learned scientific knowledge in practical use of the nursing process.
  • Complete nursing assessments upon patient admission, each shift, and when a patient’s condition changes; complete patient acuity by 0200/1400 daily.
  • Interpret assessment information and formulate nursing diagnoses.
  • Develop individualized plans of care, document expected or projected patient outcomes, and review, revise, and update plans daily based on evaluation and interpretation of outcomes.
  • Administer medications and intravenous therapy appropriately at prescribed intervals and complete patient care procedures correctly according to policy and prescribed intervals.
  • Delegate tasks based on others’ scope of practice and competency, and act as a patient advocate.
  • Manage restraint use according to policy, attempt alternative non-restraint measures first, assure complete physician orders and required physician assessments, ensure required patient monitoring, and complete a restraint audit form each shift.
  • Complete and accurately maintain all flow sheets and chart forms, including admission assessments; pain-scale assessments and reassessments before and after intervention; daily, restraint, diabetes, and educational flow sheets; Kardex; care plans; risk assessments and reassessments upon a fall; medication administration records; equipment and supplies records; intra- and inter-facility transfer forms; and belonging tracking forms.
  • Ensure orders are transcribed and signed off before the end of the shift and complete 12-hour/24-hour chart checks.
  • Provide patient and family education as needed, including room/unit orientation and the plan of care; identify knowledge deficits related to diagnoses and care; and use and provide MICROMEDEX information to patients and families.
  • Collaborate with the case manager and/or physician regarding 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 IV pumps, feeding pumps, PCA pumps, epidural pumps, sequential compression devices, wound VACs, and heating pads/pumps.
  • Communicate with the healthcare team, patients, and families, including during shift-to-shift reports, physician rounds, patient/family interactions, MDP rounds, hand-off reports, facility email communications, and interactions with students and new or contract employees.
  • Organize and prioritize responsibilities, manage time effectively, take meal breaks without incurring overtime, and complete shifts on time.
  • Meet regulatory-agency requirements, including National Patient Safety Goals, patient identifiers, unapproved abbreviations, Universal Protocol/procedural time-outs, hand-offs, medication reconciliation, clinical alarms, hazardous-waste management, biohazard, medication and sharps safety, HIPAA, OSHA requirements, and continuous JCAHO survey readiness.
  • Manage critical values by writing them down, reading them back, and following up; ensure telephone orders are appropriate, documented, signed, timed, dated, stamped, entered into the unit log, and followed up as required.
  • 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 arthroplasty, total knee arthroplasty, spinal surgery, cystic fibrosis, abdominal-organ transplants, and hepatic encephalopathy, following the applicable unit-specific care requirements.
  • Manage complex critically ill intensive care patients, including neurosurgery, thoracic foregut, gastric bypass, orthopedic, liver/kidney/pancreas transplant, hepatobiliary, open-heart, and heart/lung transplant patients; manage advanced modalities including hemodynamic monitoring, continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT/CVVHD), ventriculostomy, intracranial-pressure monitoring, ventricular assist devices, and balloon pumps.
  • Manage high-acuity step-down/telemetry patients requiring specialized monitoring and care, including post-open-heart, heart-transplant, lung-transplant, liver/kidney-transplant, orthopedic, hepatobiliary, general-surgery, thoracic foregut, gastric-bypass, neurology, and neurosurgery patients; manage ventilators, arterial/CVP lines, ventricular assist devices, and lumbar drains.
  • Initiate, perform, and terminate dialysis treatments according to policy and standards of care; review orders and labs before treatment; inform patients of the treatment plan; complete treatment-record documentation; perform pretreatment safety checks and machine maintenance; check charts for dialysis orders before arriving with equipment; call physicians early when dialysis orders lack treatment orders; and complete med/surg dialysis treatments on 3S when more than two med/surg patients are scheduled.
  • Engage psychiatric patients in therapeutic interactions and maintain a therapeutic milieu; assess and monitor patient safety, including contraband checks at admission, shift changes, and as needed; initiate and participate in treatment planning; monitor locked unit doors; log visitors and assess for contraband; follow patients’ legal status each shift and communicate with the Department of Mental Health and other agencies as required; administer psychotropic medications only after proper consent and documentation; and submit the Fire Arms Reporting Form.
  • Use de-escalation techniques to prevent behavioral restraint or seclusion when possible; apply restraint/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 according to policy; notify the manager of behavioral-restraint incidents; contact significant others as permitted; and debrief with the patient after the incident when appropriate.
  • Accurately identify patients who meet Core Measure criteria and complete Core Measure documentation; identify 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/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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