What are the responsibilities and job description for the RN Clinical Staff Med/Surg Tele 5th Floor Full Time Nights position at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital?
Clinical Staff Nurse - Med/Surg Tele Unit
The Clinical Staff Nurse is a skilled and experienced professional Registered Nurse (RN) responsible for delivering high-quality, patient-centered care in a telemetry unit. This role involves organizing and coordinating patient care, performing nursing assessments, and collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to ensure positive patient outcomes. The nurse is accountable for delivering individualized care, maintaining safety standards, and supporting the hospital's mission and values.
Responsibilities
- Utilize the nursing process as a problem-solving model to anticipate and plan to meet patient and family needs.
- Perform focused nursing assessments to target areas most productive for a given patient population or situation, recognizing subtle changes in clinical situations and evaluating and appropriately altering the plan of care.
- Prioritize and organize patient care, ensuring follow-through with planned care and consistently applying current literature and research findings to make sound clinical decisions.
- Develop and maintain a therapeutic nurse/patient relationship throughout the healthcare continuum, respecting patient rights and conducting hourly rounding on patients.
- Communicate effectively using SBAR in all hand-off situations and document patient care, including assessment, interdisciplinary plan of care, implementation, evaluation, and the Watson Model of Care, following unit-specific and hospital documentation policies and procedures.
- Anticipate variables affecting patient comfort and alter physical and psychosocial interventions accordingly, utilizing a variety of modalities and assisting patients/families to maximize their sense of control and actively participate in their recovery.
- Collaborate with Care Managers during the patient's stay, taking a proactive role in coordinating interdisciplinary discharge planning for a specific patient population.
- Review all orders on patients, communicate changes in patient condition with physicians and other team members, and contact physicians promptly with significant changes in patient condition.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of nursing interventions and document outcomes in the IPOC, utilizing patient classification systems according to standards.
- Supervise, instruct, and evaluate ancillary nursing personnel, floats, orienteers, and registry staff, ensuring that an evaluation is completed each shift for registry/floats.
Position Requirements
A. Education
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing preferred.
- Associate's degree in Nursing, Nursing Diploma, or equivalent.
- Internal candidates who have successfully completed the MLKCH Versant Nurse Residency Program will be considered.
B. Qualifications/Experience
- Minimum of one year of clinical nursing experience.
- Minimum of 12 months of Med/Surg/Telemetry or Critical Care nursing experience, preferred.
- Current California Nursing license.
- Basic EKG Competence.
- Certification in Progressive Critical Care Nursing, preferred.
- Certification in Medical/Surgical Nursing, preferred.
C. Special Skills/Knowledge
- Bilingual skills, preferred.
- Basic computer skills.
- Dysrrythmia Course certificate, preferred.
- Electronic Medical Record experience, preferred.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS).
- Current Advance Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).
- Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Blue Card, within 90 Days of hire or requirement notification.
