Staff Nurse I Stepdown Intensive Care Unit

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Organization:

MPHSMillsPeninsula Medical Center

Position Overview:

The Registered Nurse following the scope and standards of professional nursing practice provides comprehensive patientfamily centered care addressing potential and actual health and illness problems for patients and families.

A Registered Nurse who under the supervision of the Nurse Manager has continual opportunity to exercise initiative and independent professional judgment uses the nursing process to provide comprehensive patient centered nursing care for assigned patients; and as a primary member of a nursing care team guides and monitors work of paraprofessional and other team members. This care is performed as a part of a customer focused service oriented team that incorporates the values of Mills Peninsula Health Services in a confidential environment. The Registered Nurse integrates the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses and the Patients Bill of Rights Professional Scope and Standards of Practice and pertinent Specialty Standards into his or her nursing practice.

Job Description:

These Principal Accountabilities Requirements and Qualifications are not exhaustive but are merely the most descriptive of the current job.

Management reserves the right to revise the job description or require that other tasks be performed when the circumstances of the job change (for example emergencies staff changes workload or technical development).

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES

Utilizes the nursing process and standards of nursing practice to deliver care for assigned patients.

Assessment

Obtains data from patient and/or significant others with particular consideration of biophysical psychosocial environmental selfcare educational and discharge planning factors.

Demonstrates the use of nursing and psychiatric/mental health theoretical base in conclusions about assessment data as evidenced by utilizing nursing diagnoses.

Documents assessment according to established protocol.

Planning

Develops a realistic (prioritizing needs to be addressed in length of stay) timely comprehensive care plan which includes measurable goals delineating nursing actions unique to each clients needs along with teaching/learning and discharge plans.

Collaborates with peers multidisciplinary personnel medical staff and community resources in developing the multidisciplinary treatment plan.

Intervention

Implements nursing interventions based on nursing care plan adjusting priorities based on observable relationships between patients behavioral changes and the milieu.

Uses an empathic caring approach with patients.

Serves as patient advocate in delivery of patient care.

Uses the activities of daily living in a goal directed way to foster adequate selfcare.

Takes records and reviews vital signs.

Uses knowledge of current psychopharmacology to guide nursing actions.

Observes pertinent responses to somatic therapies in terms of underlying principles of each therapy.

Identifies actual and/or potential emergency situations and intervenes taking action to minimize or prevent occurrence.

Assists in creating maintaining and managing a therapeutic milieu.

Educates patient/family toward understanding of health/illness and plans for discharge.

Communicates to health care team specific observations and information which indicate patient condition.

Documents clear concise comprehensive nursing notes that reflect implementation of and patients response to plan of care.

Records teaching approaches and behavioral outcomes of the patient throughout the teaching/learning process.

Acts as primary clinician working with patient to coordinate treatment team efforts.

Evaluation

Reassesses and evaluates patient/family/significant others response to care on a regular basis as defined by unit policies.

Determines whether expected outcomes were met.

Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members to revise plan if necessary.

Documents evaluation in progress note and on care plans.

Leadership/Professional Growth

Demonstrates organizational skills in caring for assigned group of patients.

Acts as a role model for paraprofessional staff and peers.

Participates in educational opportunities to increase clinical competence/professional awareness and update practice.

Participates in nursing department/unit committees and/or projects.

Identifies own areas of strength/limitations and actively participates in ongoing selfevaluation.

EDUCATION

HS Diploma

Other: Graduation from accredited School of Nursing Required

Bachelors: Desired

or Masters

CERTIFICATION & LICENSURE

RN Registered Nurse of California (Required)

BLS Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider (Required)

ACLS Advance Cardiac Life Support (AHA) (Desired) (or must obtain within 60 days)

NIHSS National Institute of Health Stroke Scale Certification (Desired) (or must obtain within 90 days)

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE AS TYPICALLY ACQUIRED IN:

Staff Nurse I: California Registered Nurse with less than 12 fulltime equivalent months total experience in an acute hospital or comparable clinical area.

Staff Nurse II: Registered Nurse who has completed a total of twelve fulltime months nursing experience in an acute hospital or comparable clinical area within the last three years.

Staff Nurse I may be reclassified to Staff Nurse II upon completion of six months service with MillsPeninsula Health Services. Three months prior work experience may count as part of this six months if a nurses overall acute hospital or comparable clinical area experience totals a minimum of six months within the three years prior to employment at MPHS.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge of the pathophysiology common treatments medications complications and prevention strategies for area of clinical practice.

Thorough knowledge of nursing process and/or surgical procedures.

Thorough knowledge of medical terminology anatomy and physiology

Demonstrates excellent communication and interpersonal skills to promote effective interactions with patients/families and staff.

Able to navigate electronic health record (EHR) and successfully complete competency.

Demonstrates flexibility selfmotivation

Must be able to communicate effectively in both verbal and written English

Job Shift:

Nights

Schedule:

Full Time

Shift Hours:

12

Days of the Week:

Variable

Weekend Requirements:

Every other Weekend

Benefits:

Yes

Unions:

Yes

Position Status:

NonExempt

Weekly Hours:

36

Employee Status:

Regular

Employees of Sutter Health and its entities may handle hazardous in the course of their work including patient care which requires them to manage store prepare receive unpack transport dispose of or administer identified as hazardous or potentially hazardous by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and in accordance with the USP 800 guidelines.

Sutter Health is an equal opportunity employer EOE/M/F/Disability/Veterans.

Pay Range is $76.46 to $76.46 / hour

The salary range for this role may vary above or below the posted range as determined by location. This range has not been adjusted for any specific geographic differential applicable by area where the position may be filled. Compensation takes into account several factors including but not limited to a candidates experience education skills licensure and certifications department equity training and organizational needs. Base pay is just one piece of the total rewards program offered by Sutter Health. Eligible roles also qualify for a comprehensive benefits package.