RN PD

As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Assessment
  
  
  
  
  • Performs an appropriate nursing history and physical upon admission.
  
  
  
  • Reviews complete physical assessment
  
  
  
  • Performs frequent vital signs
  
  
  
  • Identifies any problems based on observation techniques
  
  
  
  • Analyzes all data and incorporates into plan of care
  
  
  
  • Compares and correlates data in written record
  
  
  
  • Utilizes standards of care and previous clinical information to anticipate potential patient care problems
  
  
  
  • Identifies individual patient needs
  
  
  
  • Reviews pre-procedure history, physical examination, medical care plan and documented allied health care (i.e., R.T., Xray, Social Services)
  
  
  
  • Identifies abnormal diagnostic data, records and communicates to appropriate resource.
  
  
  
  • Performs on-going assessments related to plan of care on patient condition as evidenced by random audit.
• Planning
  
  
  
  
  • In conjunction with the patient and family, develops individualized patient care plan based on nursing diagnosis. Identifies short and long term goals, including discharge planning, consistent with established patient care plan
  
  
  
  • Identifies and documents expected outcome relevant to specific nursing interventions as evidenced by random audit.
  
  
  
  • Identifies and reports unsafe practice and/or procedure accurately and timely to ensure patient safety.
  
  
  
  • Checks and maintains assigned rooms with 100% compliance to ensure adequate supplies and equipment are available for patient care as evidenced by random audit.
  
  
  
  • Knows location, purpose and use of all equipment and supplies and conserves use of supplies to ensure cost effective, quality care.
• Implementation
  
  
  
  
  • Provides direct nursing care based on the plan of care and established priorities.
  
  
  
  • Performs and documents nursing care given based on nursing diagnosis as evidenced by random audit.
  
  
  
  • Performs and documents nursing care and patient education based on accepted standards/protocols in a safe manner.
  
  
  
  • Record pertinent information clearly, accurately and in a timely manner as evidenced by random audit.
  
  
  
  • Adapts care in response to alterations in patients needs and/or behavior.
• Control of Medications
  
  
  
  
  • Accurately administers medications per hospital policies.
  
  
  
  • Accurately charts medication.
  
  
  
  • Accurately administers IV therapy per hospital policies.
• Teaching Skills
  
  
  
  
  • Implements the teaching plan.
  
  
  
  • Evaluates patient's learning by observing follow-through and/or oral feedback
  
  
  
  • Contributes to positive learning experiences of nursing students/staff.
  
  
  
  • Participates in teaching and guiding the performance of paraprofessional personnel.
• Communication
  
  
  
  
  • Applies effective interviewing skills to elicit information from patient and/or significant others
  
  
  
  • Communicates accurate information about the patient care plan to patient and/or significant others.
  
  
  
  • Identifies and reduces anxiety in patient and/or significant others through verbal and non-verbal communication

Required

• Graduate of an accredited RN Program, upon hire and
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire

Preferred

• Med/Surg or Recovery Room and two years GI experience

Founded in 1946, Dignity Health - French Hospital Medical Center is a 112-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in San Luis Obispo, California. Serving over 150,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, orthopedics, and a family birthing center. Additionally, French Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has achieved an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for every reporting period since 2012.

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