RN Med Surg EXPERIENCED

Dignity Health • Santa Cruz, CA • 5h ago

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Staff RN, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

Clinical Practice & Case Management-Provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum to include patient and family education.

Performs psychosocial/physiologic assessments that integrate changing data.Formulates a plan of care based on trends of similar patients, including patient education and discharge planning. Collaborates with patients/families to identify realistic desired outcomes.

Administers prescribed medications and intravenous solutions according to standards of care and hospital protocols.Assesses pain level in all patients using "0-10", "Faces", or other approved scale to promote comfort and enable patients to participate in their healing. Provides timely/appropriate assessment/intervention. Identifies comfort function goals with patients.

Tailors and prioritizes caring practice to individual needs, including cultural/ethical/spiritual needs. Participates in the planning of routine transitional healthcare needs. (i.e. treatment options, patient placement options, end of life options). Adapts standards and guidelines for individual patients.

Reports significant observed or reported alterations in the patient's condition in a timely manner.

Adapts planned educational programs and information to individual patients and family by modifying teaching strategies or content. Integrates education during the delivery of patient care.

Job Requirements

Required

Associate Of Nursing Nursing and less than 1 year Six months of recent hospital, clinic orsimilar nursing experience., upon hire or

Diploma Of Nursing and less than 1 year Six months of recent hospital, clinic orsimilar nursing experience., upon hire and

Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and

Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and

Cancer Chemotherapy Provider, within 12 - months

Preferred

Bachelors Of Nursing, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1941, Dignity Health - Dominican Hospital is a 188-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Cruz, California. Serving over 80,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, orthopedics, and a Family Birthing Center. Additionally, Dominican Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has been awarded the AMA/ASA's Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital's commitment to providing the best stroke care.

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Pay Range

$79.09 - $101.11 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

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