RN (Med Surg) - Loan Forgiveness & $20,000 Sign-on Bonus - Full Time, Nights (Los Angeles - 90023)
Company: Alta Hospitals
Location: Rosemead
Posted on: April 26, 2024
Job Description:
The Registered Nurse collaborates with interdisciplinary teams
to develop and implement a plan of care for a specific group of
assigned patients, ensuring the coordination of care between other
disciplines, physicians, and support staff. Performs professional
nursing duties that incorporate the psychosocial, psychomotor and
age appropriate cognitive skills of the patient/family/significant
other to assess, plan, intervene and advocate for the patient on an
ongoing basis throughout the continuum of care. Will reevaluate
patient response and outcomes, effectiveness of plan of care, and
readiness for discharge and revise plan or make referrals as
necessary. Acts as a role model and mentor to a variety of new
graduate nurses, orientees and support staff.
Los Angeles Community Hospital has been taking care of generations
of east Los Angeles families. Having a strong presence in our
community has been critical to our success since our inception,
along with offering quality, compassionate healthcare accessible to
everybody. Most of our doctors, nurses and other employees live in
the community, creating a culture of neighbors taking care of
neighbors.
We have changed with our community-both in the way we deliver
medical care and by reaching beyond the walls of our hospital. We
work closely with community members to help meet their most
important needs. Our 130-bed, acute care hospital offers a wide
range of medical programs and services, including cardiology,
internal medicine and surgical services.
- Provides patient care, reviews and administers patient
medications, treatments and procedures in a safe, effective and age
appropriate manner that meets scope of practice and standards of
nursing practice.
- Recognizes change in patient's clinical conditions, taking
appropriate action and documenting intervention.
- Effectively collaborates with the health care team to
intervene, and advocate as necessary. Intervenes appropriately in
instances of abuse, assault or neglect, or when adequate financial
or social resources are not available.
- Makes appropriate referrals to resolve patient issues
effectively.
- Develops long and short-term goals consistent with treatment
plans, standards of practice, and the plan of care, incorporating
patient preference and discussing plan of care with patient.
Appropriately utilizes pain management resources and other
interventions to provide pain relief.
- Provides ongoing assessments and documents the patient's
physical and psychosocial condition, as well as response to
care.
- Reviews patient test results, identifies critical results, and
communicates in a timely manner consistent with the condition of
the patient and correlates information into the plan of care.
- Consistently ensures nursing practice is evidence based, within
scope of licensure and compliant with hospital wide standards of
nursing care, including core measures.
- Ensures Infection Control procedures and HIPPA compliance.
- Collaborates with staff, physicians and members of the
healthcare team, ensuring the coordination of care between other
disciplines and support staff.
- Supervises, monitors and delegates patient care activities to
appropriate members of the health care team, provides effective
leadership and ensures that care is safe and of high quality.
- Acts as a source of information and articulately responds to
questions, providing resources, guidance, and education about
treatment plan, plan of care, and medications.
- Develops and implements accurate teaching and ongoing discharge
plans.
- Empathizes with patient and patient support systems, expresses
compassion and understanding for the situation and demonstrates
care which is appropriate for the age, and cultural, religious,
gender identity, or ethnic background.
- Engages in caring behaviors, taking conscious ownership for
work and takes deliberate/thoughtful actions regarding how to best
carry out interactions with the patient, families, physicians, and
co-workers.Required Qualifications:
- Active, current, and unencumbered Licensure as a Registered
Nurse in the State of California
- Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing
- AHA Basic Life Support
- Ability to read, write and communicate effectively in
English
- Ability to work variable shifts including evenings, nights,
weekends, and holidays
- Ability to maintain flexibility and composure in a constantly
changing environment
- Hospital Fire and Life Safety Card (Los Angeles City Employees
only) Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- Bilingual skills to communicate effectively with patients and
families
- Recent experience as a Registered Nurse in an Acute Care
setting
- Certification in specialty area of PracticeSign On Bonus
Eligibility: To be eligible for the Sign On Bonus, you must have
one or more years (1+) of acute care RN hospital experience.
Current Alta Hospital employees are not eligible and former Alta
Hospital employees may not be eligible. The Sign on Bonus Program
is only available for full-time RN positions. Bonus payments are
made in increments over the course of 24 months to active employees
in good standing.Pay Rate: Min - $44.30 - Max - $62.60
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