(Immediate Start) Sp Unit Staff RN - ICU
Company: Kaiser
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: July 2, 2025
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Job Description:
Job Description Job Summary: As the leader of the health care
team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing
process in accordance with established standards of care, policies,
and procedures. Demonstrates performance consistent with the
Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the
organization. Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to
demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical
practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all
members of the health care team with dignity and respect. Essential
Responsibilities: The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by
exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
Leadership: /t - Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and
Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state,
federal and local laws. /t - Serves as a leader of the health care
team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate
accountability. /t - Understands own and team members scope of
practice and escalates issues as appropriate. /t - Demonstrates
professional, supportive behavior. /t - Champions new ideas. /t -
Leads and directs others through the change process. /t - Utilizes
communication strategies including chain of command and issue
escalation, which result in intended outcomes. /t - Participates in
problem identification and resolution. /t - Mentors, orients, and
coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care
activities /t - Shares responsibility and authority with
subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance. /t -
Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in
order to assist member problem resolution. /t - Prioritizes,
delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure
completion of patient care activities. /t - Complies with
regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of
practice. Nursing Process: /t - Develops and/or contributes to the
individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning,
implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan. /t -
Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and
education. /t - Ensures plan is reflective of admission or
outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care,
cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity. /t - Ensures plan
is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed
in a timely manner. /t - Monitors the patients progress based on
the plan. /t - Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient
condition and evaluation of progress. /t - Ensures care meets
standards of practice. /t - Ensures effective development and
completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and
patient/family education. Ensures that patient clearly understands
discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs
for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient
medical management plan. /t - Ensures patient safety related but
not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five
rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of
nosocomial infections. /t - Ensures optimal pain control and
patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears
or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge. /t
- Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side
effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as
at the time of discharge. Documentation: /t - Charting is accurate,
legible, dated, and timed. /t - Documentation reflects nursing
process and interventions and evaluations taken. /t - Utilizes
computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient
care. Clinical Outcomes: /t - Discusses patient findings and
progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the
health care team. /t - Demonstrates competencies during the
probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental
competency validation. /t - Make comprehensive nursing decisions
based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of
patient outcomes. /t - Participates in departmental performance
improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring,
assessing, and improving. Workplace Safety: /t - Adherence to LMP
Workplace Safety principles and practices. /t - Applies standard
precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others
Patient Care Experience: /t - Practices customer service standards
as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified
department. /t - Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient
requests. /t - Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the
customers ability to utilize resources. /t - Maintains and protects
patient confidentiality /t - Ensures clean, orderly, and functional
work environment. /t - Treats all families of patients with
courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion. /t - Provides an
optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs
of patients and family members and taking responsibility for
meeting those identified needs. /t - Gives patients information in
a way they can understand and ensures comprehension. /t - Provides
a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations. Team
Commitment: /t - Viewed by others to be an effective team member
who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others. /t -
Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks
appropriate assistance. /t - Takes accountability for own actions
and accepts constructive criticism. /t - Acts as a resource,
preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and
other team members. /t - Attends all mandatory meetings,
in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates
in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may
vary for per diem staff). /t - Participates with the assessment of
current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual
education plan. /t - Keeps self informed of activities on the unit
and makes recommendations for change. /t - Adheres to Attendance
Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and
available for report at beginning of assigned shift. /t - Supports
a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through
unit based teams. Fiscal Responsibility /t - Organizes work to
minimize the use of overtime. /t - Identifies and assists in
systems improvement that needs simplification or correction. /t -
Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum
potential. Basic Qualifications: Experience - One (1) year recent
(within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in
Critical Care, or successful completion of a KP Critical Care
course or approved equivalent within prior 12 months. Education -
N/A License, Certification, Registration - Registered Nurse License
(California) - Basic Life Support - Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Notes: - If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:00 pm –
7:30 am with an 8-hour back up shift 11:00 pm – 7:30 am.
PrimaryLocation : California,Los Angeles,West Los Angeles Medical
Center HoursPerWeek : 40 Shift : Night Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue,
Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat WorkingHoursStart : 07:00 PM WorkingHoursEnd :
07:30 AM Job Schedule : Full-time Job Type : Standard Employee
Status : Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B13|AFSCME|UNAC
Job Level : Individual Contributor Job Category : Nursing Licensed
& Nurse Practitioners Department : West LA Medical Center - ICU -
Coronary care Unit- 1 - 0801 Travel : Yes, 5 % of the Time Kaiser
Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair,
respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered
for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national
origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected
characteristic or status. For jobs where work will be performed in
unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following
statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance
Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and
negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially
resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
- Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of
Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining
the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the
assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity,
reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal,
state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure
requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies
and procedures. - Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self
and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility,
adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports
compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes;
conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and
actions; follows through on commitments. - Job duties with at least
occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public,
or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information
and other confidential KP information (including employee,
proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP
property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical
instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by
federal law or potentially subject to diversion.
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