Staff - Registered Nurse (RN) - NICU - Neonatal Intensive Care - $48-68 per hour at Kaiser Permanente summary:
Kaiser Permanente is looking for a Registered Nurse (RN) specialized in Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) to provide high-quality nursing care to patients and their families in Honolulu, Hawaii. This position involves leading nursing teams, administering medications, teaching nursing assistants, and maintaining patient care standards. The ideal candidate should have at least one year of NICU experience and possess a valid Registered Nurse License in Hawaii.
Kaiser Permanente is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) NICU - Neonatal Intensive Care for a nursing job in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: NICU - Neonatal Intensive Care
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: Ongoing
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, nights
- Employment Type: Staff
Job Summary:
Provides nursing care and services to patients/families. Provides direction to licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistive personnel. Delegates nursing care according to legal and regulatory guidelines/statutes and organizational policies. Utilizes reasonable judgment in carrying out prescribed medical orders of a practitioner. Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver. Serves as resource nurse. Acts as preceptor and takes charge duties as assigned.
Essential Responsibilities: - Practices professional nursing and delegates nursing tasks to nursing assistive personnel and provides direction to the LPN as appropriate.
- Utilizes nursing process to deliver care.
- Performs any nursing task requiring nursing knowledge, judgment, and skill and maintains organizational, departmental, and job-specific competencies in accordance with their departmental scope of service, discipline, specific scopes of practice and defined job descriptions.
- Administers medications. As appropriate, may administer intradermal local anesthetic for IV placement.
- Teaches LPNs and nursing assistive personnel special tasks of nursing care.
- Verifies staff competency to perform special tasks of nursing care as appropriate.
- Is responsible and accountable for quality of nursing rendered and adequacy of nursing care provided when special tasks are delegated to nursing assistive personnel.
- Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver.
- Serves as resource nurse and acts as preceptor.
- Takes charge duties as assigned.
- Incorporates the KP Vision, Model and Values throughout their Nursing Practice.
- Performs administrative and other duties and accepts responsibility as assigned.
- May perform patient care to the extent necessary to maintain clinical expertise, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care on the unit.
Basic Qualifications: Experience
- Minimum of one (1) year of experience in NICU or completion of formal course in area of specialty within established time frame.
Education
- Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
License, Certification, Registration
- Registered Nurse License (Hawaii) required at hire
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program within 12 months of hire from American Academy of Pediatrics
- Basic Life Support from American Heart Association
Additional Requirements:- Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in adaptability, change management, decision making, detail oriented, customer service, influence, interpersonal relations, oral communication, prioritization, problem solving, quality management, results orientation, system thinking, teamwork, time management, written communication competencies.
Preferred Qualifications: - Experience working with electronic medical records.
- Coursework in basic EKG.
Kaiser Permanente Job ID #1329390. Posted job title: Staff Nurse-Nicu
About Kaiser Permanente
At the heart of health care, you'll find Kaiser Permanente. As the nations leading not-for-profit, integrated health plan, we make a difference in the lives of members, patients, and communities across the country.
With 39 hospitals and more than 734 locations in eight states and the District of Columbia, we proudly serve more than 12.7 million members from coast to coast. Whether you choose to join a hospital in the Northwest, a clinic in Southern California, or a medical office in the Mid-Atlantic, we have many opportunities for you to shape the future of care.
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