Nurse Leader

5 days ago

Downey, California, United States Kaiser Permanente Full time
Job Summary:

We are seeking a skilled Nurse Leader to join our team at Kaiser Permanente. As a leader of the healthcare team, you will provide professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. You will demonstrate performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will:

  • Uphold Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.
  • Serve as a leader of the healthcare team; delegate tasks appropriately, and demonstrate appropriate accountability.
  • Understand own and team members scope of practice and escalate issues as appropriate.
  • Demonstrate professional, supportive behavior.
  • Champion new ideas.
  • Lead and direct others through the change process.
  • Utilize communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
  • Participate in problem identification and resolution.
  • Mentor, orient, and coach others in unit specific operations and patient care activities.
  • Share responsibility and authority with subordinates and hold them accountable for performance.
  • Demonstrate ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
  • Prioritize, delegate, and supervise work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
  • Comply with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.

Nursing Process:

The Nurse Leader will:

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

Documentation:

The Nurse Leader will:

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

Clinical Outcomes:

The successful candidate will:

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

Workplace Safety:

The Nurse Leader will:

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

Patient Care Experience:

The successful candidate will:

  • Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
  • Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
  • Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
  • Maintains and protects patient confidentiality.
  • Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
  • 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.
  • Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.

Team Commitment:

The successful candidate will:

  • Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
  • Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
  • Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
  • Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
  • Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development.

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