Staff Nurse

4 days ago

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

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Registered Nurse to join our team at Kaiser Permanente. As a Staff Nurse - Stepdown/DOU, you will be responsible for providing high-quality patient care and leading a team of healthcare professionals in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities
  • Leadership
    • Uphold Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures, as well as 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 necessary.
    • Demonstrate professional, supportive behavior and champion new ideas.
    • Lead and direct others through the change process, utilizing effective communication strategies.
    • Participate in problem identification and resolution, mentoring and orienting 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 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 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 patient clearly understands discharge instructions.
    • Identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
    • Ensure patient safety related to, 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; identify and discuss 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
    • 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, including 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 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 member expectations.
  • Team Commitment
    • Viewed by others to be 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.
    • Participate with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
    • Keep self-informed of activities on the unit and make recommendations for change.
    • Adhere to Attendance Program.
    • Support a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit-based teams.
  • Fiscal Responsibility
    • Organize work to minimize the use of overtime.
    • Identify and assist in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
    • Utilize payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.

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