Registered Nurse (RN) - Med Surg New

Join our dedicated healthcare team where compassion meets innovation! As a Registered Nurse with us, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in patients' lives while enjoying a supportive work environment that fosters professional growth and work-life balance. Ready to be a vital part of our mission? Apply today and bring your passion for nursing to a place where it truly matters!

At Hi-Desert Medical Center, We Understand That Our Greatest Asset Is Our Dedicated Team Of Professionals. That’s Why We Offer More Than a Job – We Provide a Comprehensive Benefit Package That Prioritizes Your Health, Professional Development, And Work-life Balance. The Available Plans And Programs Include:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off
• Career development and continuing education opportunities
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance
  
  

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status

Primary Duties

• Maintains knowledge of the nursing process and the path physiology disease. Demonstrates knowledge of the nursing process and utilizes it in assessment of path physiology disease.
• Develops a plan of care based on assessments of patient problems with appropriate interventions.
• All patients assigned to RN have a plan of care based on assessments and interventions are appropriate.
• Ability to organize patient care responsibilities with assignment of ancillary staff based on skills and experience.
• Patient care has been organized with appropriate assignment of ancillary staff.
• Provides patient education based on disease and discharge of planning needs. All patients assigned to RN have educational needs met and documentation is present on chart.
• Administers medications safely. No evidence of serious medication errors or careless practice.
• Maintains patient confidentiality and provides information to patients when needed for Informed Consent.
• Observes patient’s rights, confidentiality & reports incidents of elder abuse when indicated.
• Archives competencies in skills needed for the unit assigned. Competencies are achieved and maintained through annual appraisal.
• Completes documentation as required for chart documents and unusual occurrences (Incident Reports). Charting documentation is complete; incident reports are timely and routed appropriately.
• Maintains currency in nursing practice by attending seminars, in-services, and journal reading.
• Nursing practice reflects currency in theory and adherence to correct principles.
• Assists in planning, supervising and instructing LVN’s, CNA’s and students.
• Supervises and evaluates RN’s, LVN’s and Patient Care Technicians.
• Knowledge of patient’s rights, confidentiality, & Elder Abuse Reporting requirements.
• Observes Patients’ Bill of Rights & reports incidents of Elder Abuse, if indicated.
• Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to cardiac arrhythmias displayed on a monitor and/or printed strip. Correctly identifies and appropriately responds to basic cardiac arrhythmias.
  
  

Up to $15,000 Sign-On bonus based on experience

Shift: Nights, 7:00pm to 7:30am

Hours: 12

Job Type: Full Time

Job Summary

Provides high quality professional nursing services in a medical and surgical environment.

Minimum Education/Certification/Experience:

• Current CA RN license
• Current CPR Certification
• ACLS within 90 days of hire
• Dysrhythmia interpretation course or demonstrated competency in interpretation of dysrhythmias by the end of orientation.
• 1 year Acute Care experience preferred
  
  

Physical Demands:

• Heavy physical effort (lift/carry up to 50 lbs.)
• Prolonged, extensive, or considerable standing/walking
• Lifts, positions, pushes and/or transfers patients
  
  

Working Conditions:

• Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances
• May be exposed to infections and contagious diseases
• Exposed to hazardous anesthetic agents, body fluids and wastes
• Occasional exposure to unpleasant patient or unit elements
• Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases
• Requires judgment/action which could result in death of patient
  
  

Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.

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Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.

, $44.29 - $66.95 hourly **Individual wages are determined based upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications and experience,

Working Conditions:

• Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances
• May be exposed to infections and contagious diseases
• Exposed to hazardous anesthetic agents, body fluids and wastes
• Occasional exposure to unpleasant patient or unit elements
• Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases
• Requires judgment/action which could result in death of patient
  
  

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Primary Duties

• Maintains knowledge of the nursing process and the path physiology disease. Demonstrates knowledge of the nursing process and utilizes it in assessment of path physiology disease.
• Develops a plan of care based on assessments of patient problems with appropriate interventions.
• All patients assigned to RN have a plan of care based on assessments and interventions are appropriate.
• Ability to organize patient care responsibilities with assignment of ancillary staff based on skills and experience.
• Patient care has been organized with appropriate assignment of ancillary staff.
• Provides patient education based on disease and discharge of planning needs. All patients assigned to RN have educational needs met and documentation is present on chart.
• Administers medications safely. No evidence of serious medication errors or careless practice.
• Maintains patient confidentiality and provides information to patients when needed for Informed Consent.
• Observes patient’s rights, confidentiality & reports incidents of elder abuse when indicated.
• Archives competencies in skills needed for the unit assigned. Competencies are achieved and maintained through annual appraisal.
• Completes documentation as required for chart documents and unusual occurrences (Incident Reports). Charting documentation is complete; incident reports are timely and routed appropriately.
• Maintains currency in nursing practice by attending seminars, in-services, and journal reading.
• Nursing practice reflects currency in theory and adherence to correct principles.
• Assists in planning, supervising and instructing LVN’s, CNA’s and students.
• Supervises and evaluates RN’s, LVN’s and Patient Care Technicians.
• Knowledge of patient’s rights, confidentiality, & Elder Abuse Reporting requirements.
• Observes Patients’ Bill of Rights & reports incidents of Elder Abuse, if indicated.
• Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to cardiac arrhythmias displayed on a monitor and/or printed strip. Correctly identifies and appropriately responds to basic cardiac arrhythmias.