Tenet Desert is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Med Surg for a nursing job in Joshua Tree, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Med Surg
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: Ongoing
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours
- Employment Type: Staff
Up to $15,000 Sign-on Bonus based on Experience.
Welcome to Hi-Desert Medical Center, where you'll benefit from:
A 59-bed acute primary care facility offering you and your family first-rate health care close to home
A wide range of quality inpatient and outpatient diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation services, home health and hospice services, and a variety of community outreach programs
A dedicated team of quality, caring, health care professionals
Position Summary
Provides high quality professional nursing services in a medical and surgical environment.
Shift: Nights
Hours:
Primary Duties
- Maintains knowledge of the nursing process and the path physiology disease. Demonstrates knowledge of the nursing process and utilizes it in assessment of path physiology disease.
- Develops a plan of care based on assessments of patient problems with appropriate interventions.
- All patients assigned to RN have a plan of care based on assessments and interventions are appropriate.
- Ability to organize patient care responsibilities with assignment of ancillary staff based on skills and experience.
- Patient care has been organized with appropriate assignment of ancillary staff.
- Provides patient education based on disease and discharge of planning needs. All patients assigned to RN have educational needs met and documentation is present on chart.
- Administers medications safely. No evidence of serious medication errors or careless practice.
- Maintains patient confidentiality and provides information to patients when needed for Informed Consent.
- Observes patient's rights, confidentiality & reports incidents of elder abuse when indicated.
- Archives competencies in skills needed for the unit assigned. Competencies are achieved and maintained through annual appraisal.
- Completes documentation as required for chart documents and unusual occurrences (Incident Reports). Charting documentation is complete; incident reports are timely and routed appropriately.
- Maintains currency in nursing practice by attending seminars, in-services, and journal reading.
- Nursing practice reflects currency in theory and adherence to correct principles.
- Assists in planning, supervising and instructing LVN's, CNA's and students.
- Supervises and evaluates RN's, LVN's and Patient Care Technicians.
- Knowledge of patient's rights, confidentiality, & Elder Abuse Reporting requirements.
- Observes Patients' Bill of Rights & reports incidents of Elder Abuse, if indicated.
- Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to cardiac arrhythmias displayed on a monitor and/or printed strip. Correctly identifies and appropriately responds to basic cardiac arrhythmias.
Tenet Desert Job ID . Posted job title: RN Med Surg Full Time Nights
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