Specialty Unit Staff RN - Hospital

Location: California

# Specialty Unit Staff RN - Hospital Harbor City, CAFull-Time# Specialty Unit Staff RN - Hospital Harbor City, CAFull-Time Sep 06, 2025

Healthcare Services  
* Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.  
* Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.  
* Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.  
* Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.  
* Champions new ideas.  
* Leads and directs others through the change process.  
* Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.  
* Participates in problem identification and resolution.  
* Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities  
* Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.  
* Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.  
* Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.  
* Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.

* Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.  
* Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.  
* Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.  
* Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.  
* Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.  
* Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.  
* Ensures care meets standards of practice.  
* 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.  
* Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.  
* Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.  
* Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge**.*
* * Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.  
* Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.  
* Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.  
* Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.

* Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.  
* Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.  
* Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.  
* Maintains and protects patient confidentiality  
* Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.  
* Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.  
* 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.  
* Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.  
* Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.

* Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.  
* Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.  
* Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.  
* Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.  
* 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).  
* Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.  
* Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.  
* Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly,…