What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Nurse-NICU position at Kaiser?
Job Summary :
Provides nursing care and services to patients / families. Provides direction to licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistive personnel. Delegates nursing care according to legal and regulatory guidelines / statutes and organizational policies. Utilizes reasonable judgment in carrying out prescribed medical orders of a practitioner. Functions as primary nurse / total patient caregiver. Serves as resource nurse. Acts as preceptor and takes charge duties as assigned.
Essential Responsibilities :
- Practices professional nursing and delegates nursing tasks to nursing assistive personnel and provides direction to the LPN as appropriate.
- Utilizes nursing process to deliver care.
- Performs any nursing task requiring nursing knowledge, judgment, and skill and maintains organizational, departmental, and job-specific competencies in accordance with their departmental scope of service, discipline, specific scopes of practice and defined job descriptions.
- Administers medications. As appropriate, may administer intradermal local anesthetic for IV placement.
- Teaches LPNs and nursing assistive personnel special tasks of nursing care.
- Verifies staff competency to perform special tasks of nursing care as appropriate.
- Is responsible and accountable for quality of nursing rendered and adequacy of nursing care provided when special tasks are delegated to nursing assistive personnel.
- Functions as primary nurse / total patient caregiver.
- Serves as resource nurse and acts as preceptor.
- Takes charge duties as assigned.
- Incorporates the KP Vision, Model and Values throughout their Nursing Practice.
- Performs administrative and other duties and accepts responsibility as assigned.
- May perform patient care to the extent necessary to maintain clinical expertise, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care on the unit.
Basic Qualifications :
Experience
Education
License, Certification, Registration
Additional Requirements :
Preferred Qualifications :
Coursework in basic EKG.
PrimaryLocation : Hawaii,Honolulu,Moanalua Ancillary Building
HoursPerWeek : 36
Shift : Night
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
WorkingHoursStart : 07 : 15 PM
WorkingHoursEnd : 07 : 45 AM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group / Union Affiliation : HNS|HNHP|Hawaii Nurses and Healthcare Professionals
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
Department : Moanalua Medical Center - Neo-Natal ICU Unit -1 - 1201
Travel : No
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.
