Home Health Rn - Riverside - Hospice Pt 4Pm

• Leadership:
• Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
• Patient Care Experience:
• Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
• Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
• Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
• Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
• Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
• Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
• Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
• Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
• Participates in problem identification and resolution.
• Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
• Team Commitment:
• Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.
• Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.
• Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
• Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
• Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
• Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.
• Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.
• Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.
• Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
• Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education.
• Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
• The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
• Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
• Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
• Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.
• Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
• Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
• Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
• Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
• Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
• Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
• Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
• Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).
• Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
• Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
• Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
• Nursing Process:
• Fiscal Responsibility:
• Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
• Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
• Leads and directs others through the change process.
• Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.
• Ensures care meets standards of practice.
• Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
• Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
• Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
• Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
• Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
• Patient Care Experience:
• Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
• Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
• Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.
• Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
• Champions new ideas.
• Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
• Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities
• Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
• Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.

• 1-year recent (within past three 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in a licensed Home Health, Palliative Care and/or Hospice agency as an RN/PHN.
• Registered Nurse License (California)

• Basic Life Support

Current California Driver’s License and a clear driving record for the past two years.

• Applicants will be required to successfully complete a Kaiser Permanente Nursing Orientation Program.
• Proof of automobile insurance as required by law.
• Will accept a trainee with a minimum of 2 years of recent (within the past 3 years) experience in SDU, DOU, Telemetry or Med/Surg, or 4 years recent (within the past 5 years) in a Skilled Nursing facility.

• Work week will alternate 24 hours/32 hours.
• This position will be on standby from 11 PM to 8:30 AM taking calls for both Palliative and Hospice.

PrimaryLocation : California,Riverside,Magnolia Home Health
HoursPerWeek : 24
Shift : Evening
Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
WorkingHoursStart : 04:00 PM
WorkingHoursEnd : 08:30 AM
Job Schedule : Part-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B13|AFSCME|UNAC
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
Department : Magnolia Village - Hospice Administration - 0801
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.