Clinical Nurse - Emergency Department - Sharp Memorial Hospital - Nights - FT - May be eligible for $5k relocation assistance

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On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$56.580 - $70.170 - $83.760

 

The stated pay scale reflects the range as defined by the collective bargaining agreement between Sharp HealthCare and Sharp Professional Nurses Network, United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, NUHHCE, AFSME, AFL-CIO.  Placement within the range is based on years of RN experience.

Please Note: As part of our recruitment process, you may receive communication from Dawn, our virtual recruiting assistant. Dawn helps coordinate scheduling for screening calls and interviews to ensure a smooth and timely experience. Rest assured, all candidate evaluations and hiring decisions are made by our recruitment and hiring teams.

Schedule: 12 hr. shifts/36 hrs. per week

Shift: 700pm-730am

What You Will Do
To provide direct and indirect nursing services to patients and families.

Required Qualifications

• Graduate of nursing school.
• 1 Year clinical experience (RNs with less than 12 months experience will complete the new grad requirements).
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED
• ACLS Certification (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) - Various-Employee provides certificate -REQUIRED
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Essential Functions

Clinical advancement

• Uses systematic planning, appropriate methods and timely exchange of information with multidisciplinary team and patient/family to coordinate care.
• Demonstrates ability to focus on and manage multiple patient needs and aspects of care.
• Actively communicates with care team to plan patient care.
• Utilizes available resources to problem-solve and determine most effective approach to action.

Clinical judgment and decision making

• Utilizes the nursing process and a critical thinking approach to provide patient care that incorporates the mind, body and spirit; is individualized, goal directed, and consistent with current standards of safety.
• Identifies actual/potential problems for which the patient is at risk.
• Continuously evaluates interventions and care, and adjusts the plan as patient and family needs change.
• Identifies need for referrals based on information obtained in initial and ongoing assessments and evaluation.
• Collaborates with patient, family and other team members to develop a comprehensive plan of care.
• Prioritizes demand for resources and collaborates with others to meet individualized patient needs.
• Acts as preceptor/teacher in guiding other nurses on how to apply the nursing process with a particular unit population.
• Makes appropriate referrals based on information obtained in initial and ongoing assessments and evaluation.
• Implements safe, therapeutic and efficient care for patients with complex needs due to multi-system disease and/or complications of treatment.
• Demonstrates accountability for achieving patient outcomes.
• Demonstrates an ability to quickly recognize a patient diagnosis even though presenting symptoms or situations may be dissimilar.
• Documents per department/entity guidelines of care and policies and procedures.
• Comprehensive; representing detailed, concise picture of patient's care.
• Serves as a resource for other staff in managing unit specific documentation issues.
• Charting reflects a critical thinking/problem-oriented approach to patient issues.

Clinical leadership

• Delegates/assigns and communicates expectations for care delivery processes to each member of the team.
• Knowledgeable about what can and cannot be delegated to each different health care team member.
• Responsible for delegation and follows through to ensure delegated task is complete.
• Before delegating, analyzes each situation, determines and consistently applies levels of supervision needed (unsupervised, initial direction and periodic inspection, continuous supervision, or should not be delegated).
• Assesses appropriateness of physician orders and to question physician when appropriate.
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