Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our night part time Break Relief Registered Nurse (RN) on our 30-bed Cardiac Telemetry unit, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Our unit, featuring all private rooms, is meticulously designed to promote a quiet, calm atmosphere and a healing environment, supported by modern amenities like ceiling lifts, a pneumatic tube system, and state-of-the-art equipment. This is a break relief RN position designed to break unit nurses for lunches and breaks during the hours of 2200-0430.
Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care to a diverse cardiac population, including patients with arrhythmias, those undergoing pre/post cardiac intervention (including sheath removals), and pre/post-operative cardiac surgical patients. You'll make critical assessments, perform skilled procedures, and meticulously implement patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes, ensuring a smooth continuum of care from admission to discharge.
To be successful in this 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 our fast-paced cardiac environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement within a unit committed to providing the highest standard of specialized cardiac care.
- Assessment: Performs total body and system assessment each shift/visit according to unit standards.
- Care of Patient: Including planning, implementing, evaluating and educating.
- Clinical/Technical Skills: Utilizes technology, procedures, protocols, standards and interventions specific to the assigned unit.
- Documentation: Performs legible, timely, concise and accurate documentation according to policies and procedures. Proficient and competent with the computerized documentation system.
- Leadership: Accepts responsibility and accountability for own decisions and behaviors. Recognizes, accepts and cooperates with direction from facility leadership.
- Precepting/Mentoring: Participates in orientation of new staff, ancillary personnel and mentors students in a constructive and positive manner. Serves as a resource to staff from other nursing departments.
Required
- One (1) year of experience as an RN within an acute care hospital.
- Active Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of California
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification - American Heart Association
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification - American Heart Association
Preferred
- Arrhythmia certification
Founded in 1967, Dignity Health - Mercy San Juan Medical Center is a 377-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Carmichael, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, cancer care, women’s health, and neurology. Additionally, Mercy San Juan Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Comprehensive Stroke Center, the highest level of stroke care certification awarded by The Joint Commission.
Mercy Home Health and Mercy Hospice is located at 3400 Data Drive in Rancho Cordova, CA. Both service lines are accredited agencies that have received outstanding recognition from The Joint Commission. We currently serve the greater El Dorado, Placer and Sacramento counties, bringing our patients the highest level of service available.