Staff Nurse

4 weeks ago


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

This position represents a leadership role in the healthcare team, providing professional nursing care and utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures.

The successful candidate will demonstrate performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization.

Essential Responsibilities
  • Upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.
  • Serves as a leader of the healthcare team, delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
  • Understands own and team members' scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
  • Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior, champions new ideas, and leads and directs others through the change process.
  • Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
  • Participates in problem identification and resolution, mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit-specific operations and patient care activities.
  • Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds them accountable for performance.
  • Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
Nursing Process

Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.

Ensures the plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education, and is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age-appropriate care, cultural-specific needs, and appropriate acuity.

Ensures the plan is discussed with the patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.

Monitors the patient's progress based on the plan, revises the plan on an ongoing basis based on the patient's condition and evaluation of progress, and ensures care meets standards of practice.

Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plans, including discharge barriers and patient/family education, and ensures that the patient clearly understands discharge instructions.

Patient Care Experience

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 customer's ability to utilize resources.

Maintains and protects patient confidentiality, ensures a clean, orderly, and functional work environment, and 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, and provides a patient care experience that exceeds members' expectations.

Team Commitment

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 team members, attends all mandatory meetings, in-services, and staff meetings as required, and actively participates in other departmental professional development.

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.

Adheres to Attendance Program, reports to assigned area promptly, and is present and available for report at the beginning of assigned shift.

Fiscal Responsibility

Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.

Identifies opportunities for cost savings and implements strategies to reduce waste and improve efficiency.


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