Step Down Unit Rn-L2

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:

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

Nursing Process:

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

Patient Care Experience:

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

Patient Care Experience:

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

Team Commitment:

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

Fiscal Responsibility:

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

• 1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in an acute care setting or completion of a Kaiser Permanente (KP) or equivalent training program within prior 12 months.

• N/A

• Registered Nurse License (California)

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support

• Basic Life Support from American Heart Association

• N/A

• Basic Arrhythmia course required.

• N/A

• (NSU) - Care of neurology-surgical patients preferred.
• (6 East) - Care of ventilator patients preferred.
• (7 West) - Care of stroke patients preferred.
• BSN preferred.
• Telemetry experience.

Notes:

• Will work every other weekend.

PrimaryLocation : California,Los Angeles,Los Angeles Medical Center
HoursPerWeek : 36
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
WorkingHoursStart : 07:30 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 08:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B08-LAMC|NNU|SCal CNA LAMC
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
Department : Sunset Medical Center - Med/Surg - UNIT 7 - 0801
Travel : No
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