About this role
Join our dedicated healthcare team where compassion meets innovation! As a Registered Nurse with us, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in patients' lives while enjoying a supportive work environment that fosters professional growth and work-life balance. Ready to be a vital part of our mission? Apply today and bring your passion for nursing to a place where it truly matters!
At Hi-Desert Continuing Care Center, we understand that our greatest asset is our dedicated team of professionals. That's why we offer more than a job – we provide a comprehensive benefit package that prioritizes your health, professional development, and work-life balance. The available plans and programs include:
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
- Generous paid time off
- Career development and continuing education opportunities
- Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
- Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
- Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status
Job type: Per Diem
Shift: Days
Hours
Registered Nurse serves in a leadership role and delivers direct patient care to assigned population.
- Demonstrates independence in assessing patient care needs and learning needs on routine and complex pediatric, adult and geriatric patients to develop plan of care.
- Assists RN I and RN II with assessment of complex patients.
- Documents pertinent nursing assessment, including physical and psycho-social on all assigned patients.
- Demonstrates understanding of lab diagnostic data and incorporates in assessment; acts as a resource for others in interpreting results.
- Identifies situations with complex variables, determines inter-relationship of variables and acts as consultant to RN I and RN II in assessing non-routine situations.
- Identifies potential and/or existing patient care problems within assignment and assumes responsibility for problem resolution, solving and utilizing resources appropriately.
- Initiates and follows through with appropriate referrals to other interdisciplinary healthcare team members.
- Determines optimal patient care priorities and assists other team members with priority planning.
- Plans care and education based on disease process and desired patient outcomes. Ensures continuity of services provided to patients across all healthcare settings, utilizing protocols and/or clinical pathways, as appropriate.
- Involves patient and care giver(s) in planning and setting of goals for care and incorporates these goals in the delivery
- Provides nursing care and patient education to assigned routine and complex patients, applying standards of care, policies and procedures, utilizing effective time management and instituting measures for a safe environment.
- Demonstrates knowledge of principles of growth and development throughout the life-span to competently provide care of pediatric, adult and geriatric patients.
- Documentation reflects the evaluation of the effectiveness of patient and/or care giver(s) education and discharge planning.
- Assists other team members in the completion of assignments, and is active as a resource, preceptor and role model.
- Performance reflects compliance and expertise based on principles as described and demonstrated in annual competencies.
- Discusses concerns or conflicts in appropriate setting, utilizing appropriate and effective verbal and non-verbal communication; recognized by co-workers as a role model for effective and professional communication.
- Maintains confidentiality of department and CCC patient information.
Interacts with patient/care givers, physicians and CCC team in a positive proactive manner.
- Communicates with family and patient, taking into consideration cultural, educational and age specific criteria.
- Expresses ideas clearly; listens effectively; keeps others informed as necessary; chooses a appropriate and timely communication methods; willingly shares information.
- Modifies care delivery based on observations of patient’s responses to interventions
- Utilizes continuous quality improvement measures to modify patient care to provide quality patient care outcomes.
- Initiates and applies new clinical interventions, based on expert knowledge, technical competency and literature review.
- Identifies recurring clinical issues and uses leadership skills to change or solve them.
- Consistently (verbal and non-verbal) supports administrative actions by serving as role model. Uses conflict resolution actions when conflicts or concerns are evident.
- Demonstrates the ability to act calmly, decisively and timely in difficult/emergent situations.
- Accomplishes unit goals through co-worker motivation.
Required
Oncology experience is required
- Complies with regulatory requirements (i.e. TJC) appropriate for position
- Current CA RN license (must maintain current at all times)
- Current BLS (must maintain current at all times)
- Competency in intravenous skills and vascular access device management
- Preceptor skills
- Adult and pediatric education skills
- E-mail, word basic skills
- Management, supervising skills
- Mentoring abilities
- Advanced communication skills
- Problem solving abilities
- Sound ethical philosophy and compassionate relationship skills