Nurse Leader

3 days ago


Palm Desert, 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 Nurse Leader, you will be responsible for providing professional nursing care to patients, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures.

Key Responsibilities
  • Leadership
    • 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 holds him/her 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
    • 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 patients 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.
    • Identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
    • 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
    • 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
    • Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.
    • Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others.
  • 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 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
    • 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.
    • 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, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.
    • Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.
  • Fiscal Responsibility
    • Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
    • Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
    • Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.

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