Staff - Registered Nurse (RN) - Transitional Care Unit - $48-68 per hour

Kaiser Permanente is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Transitional Care Unit for a nursing job in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Transitional Care Unit
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: Ongoing
• 24 hours per week
• Shift: 8 hours, nights
• Employment Type: Staff

Job Summary:
Provides nursing care and services to patients/families. Provides direction to licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistive personnel. Delegates nursing care according to legal and regulatory guidelines/statutes and organizational policies. Utilizes reasonable judgment in carrying out prescribed medical orders of a practitioner. Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver. Serves as resource nurse. Acts as preceptor and takes charge duties as assigned.
Essential Responsibilities:

• Practices professional nursing and delegates nursing tasks to nursing assistive personnel and provides direction to the LPN as appropriate.


• Utilizes nursing process to deliver care.


• Performs any nursing task requiring nursing knowledge, judgment, and skill.


• Administers medications.


• Teaches LPNs and nursing assistive personnel special tasks of nursing care.


• Verifies staff competency to perform special tasks of nursing care as appropriate.


• Is responsible and accountable for quality of nursing rendered and adequacy of nursing care provided when special tasks are delegated to nursing assistive personnel.


• Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver.


• Serves as resource nurse and acts as preceptor.


• Takes charge duties as assigned.


• Incorporates the KP Vision, Model and Values through out their Nursing Practice.


• Performs administrative and other duties and accepts responsibility as assigned.


• May perform patient care to the extent necessary to maintain clinical expertise, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care on the unit.

Basic Qualifications: Experience

• N/A

Education

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.

License, Certification, Registration

• Registered Nurse License (Hawaii)
  

• Basic Life Support from American Heart Association
  

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 12 months of hire from American Heart Association
  

Additional Requirements:

• For Ambulatory Treatment Center nurses - peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) line certification within one (1) year of hire and maintained thereafter.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in adaptability, change management, decision making, detail oriented, customer service, influence, interpersonal relations, oral communication, prioritization, problem solving, quality management, results orientation, system thinking, teamwork, time management, written communication competencies.
• Inpatient Specialty Areas: Only departments in the Pediatrics, Mother Baby, NICU, Labor & Delivery, Operating Room, Emergency, Intensive Care, Hospital Post Anesthesia Care Unit, Ambulatory Treatment, Clinical Decision Unit, Diagnostic Imaging, Oncology - One (1) year experience in area of specialty or completion of formal course in area of specialty within established timeframe.
• Ambulatory Specialty Areas: Cardiology, Oncology, Gynecologic Oncology, Population Management - One (1) year experience in area of specialty or completion of formal course in area of specialty within established timeframe.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with electronic medical records.
• One (1) year experience or completion of formal course in area of specialty.
• Coursework in basic EKG.

Kaiser Permanente Job ID #1​3​2​5​3​4​1. Posted job title: Staff Nurse - Transitional Care

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