Nurse Leader

4 weeks ago


La Palma, California, United States Kaiser Permanente Full time
Job Summary:

Kaiser Permanente seeks a skilled and compassionate Registered Nurse to lead our healthcare team. As a leader, 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:
  • 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, delegating tasks appropriately, and demonstrating accountability.
  • Understand own and team members' scope of practice and escalate issues as appropriate.
  • Demonstrate professional, supportive behavior.
  • Champion new ideas and lead the team through the change process.
  • Utilize communication strategies, including chain of command and issue escalation, resulting 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 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:
  • Develop and/or contribute to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
  • Ensure the plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
  • Ensure the plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, ongoing findings, age-appropriate care, cultural-specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
  • Ensure the plan is discussed with the patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
  • Monitor the patient's progress based on the plan.
  • Revises the plan on an 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 the patient clearly understands discharge instructions.
  • Ensure patient safety related to medications and procedures, utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention, and prevention of nosocomial infections.
  • Ensure optimal pain control and patient comfort; identify and discuss patient anxieties, fears, or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment, or discharge.
  • Ensure that the patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
Documentation:
  • Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.
  • Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken.
  • Utilize computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.
Clinical Outcomes:
  • Discuss patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the healthcare team.
  • Demonstrate competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.
  • Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.
  • Participate in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.
Workplace Safety:
  • Adhere to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.
  • Apply standard precautions; maintain a safe environment for self and others.
Patient Care Experience:
  • Practice customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
  • Promptly answer call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
  • Make appropriate referrals and facilitate the customer's ability to utilize resources.
  • Maintain and protect patient confidentiality.
  • Ensure a clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
  • Treat all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness, and compassion.
  • Provide an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
  • Give patients information in a way they can understand and ensure comprehension.
  • Provide a patient care experience that exceeds members' expectations.
Team Commitment:
  • Viewed by others as an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
  • Confront difficult or conflict situations constructively and seek appropriate assistance.
  • Take accountability for own actions and accept constructive criticism.
  • Act as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
  • Attend all mandatory meetings, in-services, and staff meetings as required, actively participate in other departmental professional development activities.


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