RN Med Surg Per Diem

Overview

Job Summary And Responsibilities:
As our Staff 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 support patient recovery and fuel your career advancement.

• Clinical Practice & Case Management - Provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum, including patient and family education.
• Performs psychosocial/physiologic assessments that integrate changing data.
• Formulates a plan of care based on trends of similar patients, including patient education and discharge planning. Collaborates with patients/families to identify realistic desired outcomes.
• Administers prescribed medications and intravenous solutions according to standards of care and hospital protocols.
• Assesses pain level in all patients using a 0–10 scale, Faces, or other approved scales to promote comfort and enable patients to participate in their healing. Provides timely/appropriate assessment and intervention. Identifies comfort function goals with patients.
• Tailors and prioritizes care to individual needs, including cultural/ethical/spiritual needs. Participates in planning routine transitional healthcare needs (e.g., treatment options, patient placement options, end-of-life options). Adapts standards and guidelines for individual patients.

• Associate of Nursing and six months of recent hospital, clinic or similar nursing experience (upon hire) or
• Diploma of Nursing and six months of recent hospital, clinic or similar nursing experience (upon hire) or
• Basic Life Support (CPR) (upon hire) or
• Registered Nurse: CA (upon hire) or
• Cancer Chemotherapy Provider (upon hire)

• Bachelor of Nursing (upon hire)

Dominican Hospital (a member of Dignity Health) is a 222-bed facility that offers a wide range of services to residents of California’s Central Coast. With 24/7 emergency care, comprehensive care in cardiac, orthopedics, oncology, women’s and children’s services, we continue to lead the region in medical innovation and excellence in healthcare.

Dominican offers emergency services and is a Certified Stroke Center and Chest Pain Center. Dominican’s services include the only comprehensive Cancer Center in Santa Cruz County, a Total Joint Replacement program, and advanced neurological and endoscopic services. Dominican regularly receives ‘A’ grades for hospital safety from Leapfrog Group, and has received national recognition for superior patient safety, cardiac care, and stroke treatment from Health grades.

As Santa Cruz County’s heart attack (STEMI) receiving center, Dominican Hospital provides cutting edge cardiac care with 24/7 cardiac catheterization labs. Dominican also provides partnerships with Stanford Health Care for neurosurgery and with Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford for NICU support.

One Community. One Mission. One California

$103.83 - $112.14 /hour