Job Summary and Responsibilities
As a 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 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 a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.
- Assignment of level of triage as appropriate based on brief history and indicated vital signs. Performs and documents appropriate nursing history and physical admission on an ongoing basis.
- Performs and documents age specific basic physiological condition of the patient to include; mental status, skin signs, pain level and complaint specific information.
- Based on assessment appropriately informs M.D. of priority of patients needing exam/treatment. Evidenced by peer/M.D. input.
- Completes appropriate procedures to insure that department is always prepared for emergency patient care: 1. Crash cart, glucoscan, O2 tank check 2. Daily bedside supply check for 02 & suction.
- Sets priorities and gives nursing care based on the patient's needs and age appropriateness.
- Implements the medical care plan as delegated.
Required
- Registered Nurse: CA (RN:CA)
- Basic Life Support - CPR (BLS-CPR)
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within 90 Days
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within 90 Days
Preferred
- Previous Emergency Department 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.