Staff Rn Nicu Ii South Bay - Available Positions, Shifts, And Schedules Vary

As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization. Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect.

The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:

Leadership:

• Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
• Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.
• Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities
• Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.
• Champions new ideas.
• Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
• Leads and directs others through the change process.
• Participates in problem identification and resolution.
• Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
• Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.
• Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
• Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
• Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.

Nursing Process:

• Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
• Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
• Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
• Ensures care meets standards of practice.
• Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
• Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
• Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
• Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.
• Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.
• Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
• Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education. 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.

Documentation:

• Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.
• Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.
• Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken.

Clinical Outcomes:

• Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.
• Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.
• Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.
• Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.

Workplace Safety:

• Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.
• Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others

Patient Care Experience:

• 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.
• Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
• Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
• Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
• Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
• Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
• Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
• Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
• Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.

Team Commitment:

• Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
• Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
• 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).
• Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
• Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.
• Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.
• Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
• Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.
• Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.

Fiscal Responsibility

• Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
• Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.
• Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.

• 1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in a Level II NICU or above, or successful completion of a KP Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) course or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.

• N/A

• Registered Nurse License (California)

• Basic Life Support from American Heart Association

• Neonatal Resusitation Program

• N/A

• May be expected to cross train to at least 1 other Perinatal area.
• May be required to train for higher level of care.

• N/A

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PrimaryLocation : California,Harbor City,South Bay Medical Center
HoursPerWeek : 0
Shift : Variable
Workdays : Variable
WorkingHoursStart : Variable
WorkingHoursEnd : Variable
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 : NICU II
Travel : No
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