Job Summary: As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization. Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect. Essential Responsibilities: The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors: Leadership:<ul><li>Upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.</li><li>Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately and demonstrates appropriate accountability.</li><li>Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.</li><li>Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.</li><li>Champions new ideas.</li><li>Leads and directs others through the change process.</li><li>Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.</li><li>Participates in problem identification and resolution.</li><li>Mentors, orients, and coaches' others in unit specific operations and patient care activities</li><li>Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.</li><li>Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.</li><li>Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.</li><li>Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.</li></ul> Nursing Process:<ul><li>Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.</li><li>Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.</li><li>Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age-appropriate care, culturally specific needs, and appropriate acuity.</li><li>Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.</li><li>Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.</li><li>Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.</li><li>Ensures care meets standards of practice.</li><li>Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education. </li><li>Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.</li><li>Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.</li><li>Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.</li><li>Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.</li></ul> Documentation:<ul><li>Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.</li><li>Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken. </li><li>Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.</li></ul> Clinical Outcomes:<ul><li>Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.</li><li>Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.</li><li>Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.</li><li>Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.</li></ul> Workplace Safety:<ul><li>Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.</li><li>Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others</li></ul> Patient Care Experience:<ul><li>Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.</li><li>Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.</li><li>Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers' ability to utilize resources.</li><li>Maintains and protects patient confidentiality</li><li>Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.</li><li>Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.</li><li>Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.</li><li>Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.</li><li>Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.</li></ul> Team Commitment:<ul><li>Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.</li><li>Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.</li><li>Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.</li><li>Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.</li><li>Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).</li><li>Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.</li><li>Keeps self-informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.</li><li>Adheres to Attendance Program. </li><li>Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.</li><li>Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit-based teams.</li></ul> Fiscal Responsibility<ul><li>Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.</li><li>Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.</li><li>Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.</li></ul> Basic Qualifications: Experience <ul><li> Minimum one (1) year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in L & D, or successful completion of a KP L&D course (which includes basic fetal monitoring and NRP) or approved equivalent within prior 12 months. </li></ul> Education <ul><li> N/A </li></ul> License, Certification, Registration <ul><li> Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Advanced Fetal Monitoring Certificate required at hire </li></ul> OR <ul><li> Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Advanced Fetal Monitoring Certificate within twelve (12) months of hire AND Kaiser PPSP for Nurses - Fetal Assessment Monitoring Certification required at hire </li></ul><ul><li> Registered Nurse License (California) </li></ul><ul><li> Advanced Cardiac Life Support </li></ul><ul><li> Neonatal Resuscitation Program </li></ul><ul><li> Basic Life Support </li></ul> Additional Requirements: <ul><li> May be expected to cross train to at least 1 other Perinatal area. </li></ul><ul><li> Ability to scrub and circulate as required. </li></ul> Notes: <ul><li> If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 8:00 pm - 8:30 am with an 8-hour back up shift 12:00 am - 8:30 am. </li></ul>PrimaryLocation : California,Irvine,Orange Co Irvine Medical Center HoursPerWeek : 36 Shift : Night Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 PM WorkingHoursEnd : 08:30 AM Job Schedule : Full-time Job Type : Standard Employee Status : Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B13 AFSCME UNAC Job Level : Individual Contributor Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners Department : OC Irvine Medical Center - Labor & Delivery-General - 0801 Travel : No Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:<li>Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.</li> . click apply for full job details<img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?qU99qEKZTV8e9OmhBzUaKgo" width="0" height="0" />

**Registered Nurse - Labor & Delivery**

As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization. Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect.

**Job Description**

- Upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.
- Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
- Understands own and team members' scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
- Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.
- Champions new ideas.
- Leads and directs others through the change process.
- Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
- Participates in problem identification and resolution.
- Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities.
- Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds them accountable for performance.
- Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
- Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
- Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
- Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
- Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
- Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, ongoing findings, age-appropriate care, culturally specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
- Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
- Monitors the patient's progress based on the plan.
- Revises plan on an ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
- Ensures care meets standards of practice.
- Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education.
- Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
- Ensures patient safety related but not limited to medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.
- Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
- Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
- Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.
- Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken.
- Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.
- Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.
- Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.
- Makes comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.
- Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.
- Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.
- Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others.
- Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
- Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
- Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers' ability to utilize resources.
- Maintains and protects patient confidentiality.
- Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
- Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness, and compassion.
- Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
- Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
- Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members' expectations.
- Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
- Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
- Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
- Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
- Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services, and staff meetings as required; actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).
- Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
- Keeps self-informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.
- Adheres to Attendance Program.
- Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.
- Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit-based teams.
- Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
- Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
- Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.

**Requirements**

- Minimum one (1) year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in Labor & Delivery or successful completion of a KP Labor & Delivery course (which includes basic fetal monitoring and NRP) or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.

**Licenses & Certifications**

- Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Advanced Fetal Monitoring Certificate required at hire or within twelve (12) months of hire AND Kaiser PPSP for Nurses - Fetal Assessment Monitoring Certification required at hire.

- Registered Nurse License (California).

- Advanced Cardiac Life Support.

- Neonatal Resuscitation Program.

- Basic Life Support.

**Additional Requirements**

- May be expected to cross train to at least one other Perinatal area.

- Ability to scrub and circulate as required.

**Notes**

- If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 8:00 PM - 8:30 AM with an 8-hour backup shift 12:00 AM - 8:30 AM.

Registered Nurse

Job Summary: Under the supervision of an Ob-Gyn Physician, manages the medical care of patients throughout the maternity cycle, including the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum and gynecological periods. Provides standard maternity care and counseling to expectant women following ambulatory care and inpatient standardized procedures, protocols, policy and procedures and instructions regulated by the State of California Nurse Practice Act and Southern California Permanente Medical Group. Essential Responsibilities: <ul> <li>Under the supervision of an Ob-Gyn physician, manages the care of women during labor and delivery.</li> <li>Obtains an accurate medical, obstetrical, gynecological and psycho-social history of the present pregnancy.</li> <li>Observes signs of the members general and obstetrical health status.</li> <li>Performs complete physical examinations including the pap smear, breast examination, abdominal examination, pelvic examination and clinical pelvimetry.</li> <li>Records all findings of examinations, histories and significant observations in the patients chart.</li> <li>Determines pregnancy status during gestation, presentation and position of fetus and fetal heart rate.</li> <li>Determines whether all findings are within normal limits.</li> <li>Orders appropriate laboratory examinations such as chest X-ray, ultrasound, CBC, urinalysis, blood type and Rh factor, serology tests.</li> <li>Consults with and obtains orders from an obstetrician for any special care or diagnostic procedure and refers to other services as necessary.</li> <li>Institutes preventative measures and detects abnormal conditions, obtains consultation and assistance from physicians as needed.</li> <li>Teaches, counsels and guides individual members regarding their individual health care.</li> <li>Determines the need for social services, genetics or mental health services and refers as appropriate.</li> <li>Evaluates patients general and obstetrical health status.</li> <li>Provides health supervision, care and family planning advice to women during antepartum and postpartum periods.</li> <li>Evaluates fetal status by performing such procedures as abdominal palpation and ultrasound examinations to estimate fetal weight, presentation and position, approximate station and fetal heart rate.</li> <li>Able to perform internal and external fetal monitoring and interpretation.</li> <li>Consults with obstetrician regarding questionable findings.</li> <li>Determines members degree of labor and whether member is to be admitted to labor and delivery.</li> <li>Independently conducts normal spontaneous vaginal deliveries.</li> <li>First assists at Cesarean Sections and gynecological surgeries.</li> <li>Performs immediate care of the newborn.</li></ul> Basic Qualifications: Experience <ul> <li>N/A.</li> </ul> Education <ul> <li>Graduate of an accredited RN program.</li> <li>Graduate of a nurse midwifery program accredited by the A.C.N.M. BS or BSN or BA required, MS Degree required in 2010.</li> </ul> License, Certification, Registration <ul> <li>Certified Nurse Midwife (California)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Registered Nurse License (California)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>National Provider Identifier</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Nurse Midwife National Certification from American Midwifery Certification Board</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Neonatal Resuscitation Program</li> </ul> Additional Requirements: <ul> <li>If the department elects to hire a new grad CNM, the California Furnishing Number and, if applicable, DEA Registration Number must be obtained within twelve (12) months of hire.</li> <li>BCLS (ACLS, PALS, if applicable)</li> </ul> Preferred Qualifications: <ul> <li>Three (3) years recent experience as a CNM preferred.</li> </ul> Notes: <ul> <li>ACLS and PALS not required</li> <li>Required to work weekends and in the ambulatory and labor and delivery setting. </li> </ul> PrimaryLocation : California,Downey,Orchard Medical Offices Building D HoursPerWeek : 40 Shift : Day Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun WorkingHoursStart : 08:30 AM WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM Job Schedule : Full-time Job Type : Standard Employee Status : Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B22 AFSCME KPCSP-CNMs Job Level : Individual Contributor Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners Department : Orchard MOB - Obstetrics/Gyn-Reg Clin - 0806 Travel : Yes, 20 % of the Time Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: <li>Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.</li> <li>Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.</li> <li>Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.</li><img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?Sq7%2b8%2b2B%2bTf1pgjLUMZV1wq" width="0" height="0" />

**Certified Nurse Midwife**

Under the supervision of an Ob-Gyn Physician, manages the medical care of patients throughout the maternity cycle, including the antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and gynecological periods. Provides standard maternity care and counseling to expectant women following ambulatory care and inpatient standardized procedures, protocols, policy and procedures, and instructions regulated by the State of California Nurse Practice Act and Southern California Permanente Medical Group.

**Job Description**

- Under the supervision of an Ob-Gyn physician, manages the care of women during labor and delivery.
- Obtains an accurate medical, obstetrical, gynecological, and psycho-social history of the present pregnancy.
- Observes signs of the member's general and obstetrical health status.
- Performs complete physical examinations including the pap smear, breast examination, abdominal examination, pelvic examination, and clinical pelvimetry.
- Records all findings of examinations, histories, and significant observations in the patient's chart.
- Determines pregnancy status during gestation, presentation and position of fetus, and fetal heart rate.
- Determines whether all findings are within normal limits.
- Orders appropriate laboratory examinations such as chest X-ray, ultrasound, CBC, urinalysis, blood type and Rh factor, serology tests.
- Consults with and obtains orders from an obstetrician for any special care or diagnostic procedure and refers to other services as necessary.
- Institutes preventative measures and detects abnormal conditions, obtains consultation and assistance from physicians as needed.
- Teaches, counsels, and guides individual members regarding their individual health care.
- Determines the need for social services, genetics, or mental health services and refers as appropriate.
- Evaluates patients' general and obstetrical health status.
- Provides health supervision, care, and family planning advice to women during antepartum and postpartum periods.
- Evaluates fetal status by performing such procedures as abdominal palpation and ultrasound examinations to estimate fetal weight, presentation and position, approximate station, and fetal heart rate.
- Able to perform internal and external fetal monitoring and interpretation.
- Consults with obstetrician regarding questionable findings.
- Determines member's degree of labor and whether member is to be admitted to labor and delivery.
- Independently conducts normal spontaneous vaginal deliveries.
- First assists at Cesarean Sections and gynecological surgeries.
- Performs immediate care of the newborn.

**Requirements**

- Graduate of an accredited RN program.
- Graduate of a nurse midwifery program accredited by the A.C.N.M. BS or BSN or BA required; MS Degree required in 2010.
- Certified Nurse Midwife (California).
- Registered Nurse License (California).
- National Provider Identifier.
- Nurse Midwife National Certification from American Midwifery Certification Board.
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program.

**Additional Requirements**

- If the department elects to hire a new grad CNM, the California Furnishing Number and, if applicable, DEA Registration Number must be obtained within twelve (12) months of hire.
- BCLS (ACLS, PALS, if applicable).

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Three (3) years recent experience as a CNM preferred.

**Notes**

- ACLS and PALS not required.
- Required to work weekends and in the ambulatory and labor and delivery setting.

Certified Nurse Midwife, Full time, Downey

Job Summary: Functions as a Lead of the healthcare team, coordinates departmental operations that ensure quality patient care in a safe, healing environment that is patient and family centered. Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice. Has appropriate clinical skills to be an expert resource. Is available and supportive to employees and understands priorities/needs of the department. Is a staff role model for professional nursing practice. May recommend to management in efficient resource allocation by assuring appropriate patient assignments, staffing, and scheduling. Demonstrates performance consistent with the strategic plan of the organization and the KP nursing mission and values. Essential Responsibilities: The Charge Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors: Leadership:<ul> <li>Directs reviews, assigns and organizes the work of at least three (3) or more employees, of which at least one (1) must be another Registered Nurse.</li><li>Applies the KP Nursing mission, vision, values and behaviors in daily practice. Understands needs and sets priorities for the department.</li><li>Provides professional leadership and direction of department personnel in order to maintain efficient delivery of effective patient care.</li><li>Coordinates departmental operations and delegates tasks appropriately. Is an excellent staff role model for professional nursing practice (e.g. RN/MD Collaborating for Outcomes, Just Culture, Quality, Service, Safety). Supports and enhances the leadership skills of the staff RNs, LVNs and UAs/CNAs (and other ancillary staff as appropriate).</li><li>Upholds compliance with Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, applicable state and federal laws and regulations, and accreditation and licensure requirements.</li><li>Upholds the standards of the California Nurse Practice Act, American Nurses Association</li><li>(ANA) Standards of Nursing Practice, and ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses.</li><li>Champions new ideas; Actively collaborates with others through the change process.</li><li>Acts as a resource, preceptor and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members in department specific operations and patient care activities.</li><li>Collaborates with or refers to manager/clinical nurse specialist/educator any outstanding issues or concerns on the unit. Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve problems in collaboration with work team and with other departments.</li><li>Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.</li><li>Participates in activities related to patient flow, including admission and discharge processes. Facilitates inter-professional/interdisciplinary communication and collaboration.</li></ul> Nursing Process:<ul> <li>Serves as a resource for clinical concerns, scope of practice and applicable state and federal regulations as well as operational concerns of providers and staff. Possesses experience and skills to be a resource for providers, RNs, LVNs, USs/CNAs, (and other ancillary staff as appropriate).</li><li>Demonstrates flexibility in work schedule to meet the department demands of the day; facilitates and relieves staff breaks.</li><li>Actively involved in assigning, orienting, and precepting and coaching staff as needed.</li></ul> Documentation:<ul> <li>Conducts audits and ensures that documentation reflects thorough assessments, incorporates physical and psychosocial findings, diagnostic tests, learning needs, barriers, multidisciplinary education plans and age appropriate care.</li></ul> Clinical Outcomes:<ul> <li>Participates/leads various aspects of department operations, staff competencies, department committees, Unit Based Teams (UBTs), new projects, quality efforts, and educational programs.</li><li>Demonstrates knowledge of patients specific conditions commonly seen in the department and care required. Interfaces with leadership, peers, physicians, other healthcare providers, and support staff regarding performance, as necessary.</li><li>Actively participates, champions and motivates other staff in quality improvement in patient care, workflow, and improvement in clinical initiatives and working conditions of the department. Provides input on employees performance evaluations through daily observation and monitoring of performance.</li></ul> Workplace Safety:<ul> <li>Adjusts staffing needs of the department to assure quality patient care, patient and staff safety, efficiency, productivity and working conditions of provider and staff. Actively models Labor-Management Partnership (LMP) Workplace Safety principles and practices.</li></ul> Patient Care Experience/Customer Service:<ul> <li>Acts as a role model for staff regarding providing a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.</li><li>Ensures timely and appropriate management of patients.</li><li>Coordinates smooth transition for patients across the care continuum. Participates in daily leadership rounds, documents rounding activities on unit rounding logs (as appropriate.). Assures hourly rounds are conducted by staff. Where appropriate, assures hourly rounds are documented according to unit/facility policy or guidelines.</li></ul> Team Commitment:<ul> <li>Ensures support of the collaborative LMP environment through unit based teams (UBTs). Identifies and supports staff professional/clinical development needs (i.e. certification, presentations, reward/recognition).</li><li>Motivates staff to attain their fullest potential in improving performance, attendance, access, service and quality outcomes. Lead/facilitate daily/shift multidisciplinary huddles. Assures huddle messages are consistently communicated. Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.</li></ul> Fiscal Responsibility:<ul> <li>Participates in resource allocation (assignments, scheduling, staffing, equipment/supplies management). Collaborates and assists with leadership, physicians, and peers in staffing, workflow and throughput to promote quality patient care, patient and staff safety, efficiency, productivity and working conditions of providers and staff.</li></ul> Professional Development:<ul> <li>Attends Charge Nurse Educational programs. Takes responsibility for professional growth and development.</li></ul> Basic Qualifications: Experience<ul><li>1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in a Level II NICU or above, or successful completion of a KP Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) course or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.</li></ul> Education License, Certification, Registration<ul><li>Registered Nurse License (California)</li></ul><ul><li>Basic Life Support from American Heart Association</li></ul><ul><li>Neonatal Resuscitation Program</li></ul> Additional Requirements:<ul><li>May be required to train for higher level of care.</li><li>May be expected to cross train to at least 1 other Perinatal area.</li></ul> Preferred Qualifications: Notes:<ul><li>Experience attending deliveries to care for baby & neonatal codes preferred. </li><li>If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:00 pm-7:30 am, back up 8 hour shift will be </li></ul> PrimaryLocation : California,Harbor City,South Bay Medical Center HoursPerWeek : 24 Shift : Night Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat WorkingHoursStart : 07:00 PM WorkingHoursEnd : 07:30 AM Job Schedule : Part-time Job Type : Standard Employee Status : Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B13 AFSCME UNAC Job Level : Individual Contributor Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners Department : South Bay Med Center - Neo-Natal ICU Unit -1 - 0801 Travel : No Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:<li>Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.</li><li>Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.</li><li>Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments . click apply for full job details<img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?KA6dYeIH5bvRBX1RXcCbyAn" width="0" height="0" />

**Charge Registered Nurse**

Functions as a Lead of the healthcare team, coordinates departmental operations that ensure quality patient care in a safe, healing environment that is patient and family centered. Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice. Has appropriate clinical skills to be an expert resource. Is available and supportive to employees and understands priorities/needs of the department. Is a staff role model for professional nursing practice. May recommend to management in efficient resource allocation by assuring appropriate patient assignments, staffing, and scheduling. Demonstrates performance consistent with the strategic plan of the organization and the KP nursing mission and values.

**Job Description**

- Directs reviews, assigns and organizes the work of at least three (3) or more employees, of which at least one (1) must be another Registered Nurse.
- Applies the KP Nursing mission, vision, values and behaviors in daily practice. Understands needs and sets priorities for the department.
- Provides professional leadership and direction of department personnel in order to maintain efficient delivery of effective patient care.
- Coordinates departmental operations and delegates tasks appropriately. Is an excellent staff role model for professional nursing practice (e.g. RN/MD Collaborating for Outcomes, Just Culture, Quality, Service, Safety). Supports and enhances the leadership skills of the staff RNs, LVNs and UAs/CNAs (and other ancillary staff as appropriate).
- Upholds compliance with Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, applicable state and federal laws and regulations, and accreditation and licensure requirements.
- Upholds the standards of the California Nurse Practice Act, American Nurses Association (ANA) Standards of Nursing Practice, and ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses.
- Champions new ideas; actively collaborates with others through the change process.
- Acts as a resource, preceptor and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members in department specific operations and patient care activities.
- Collaborates with or refers to manager/clinical nurse specialist/educator any outstanding issues or concerns on the unit. Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve problems in collaboration with work team and with other departments.
- Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
- Participates in activities related to patient flow, including admission and discharge processes. Facilitates inter-professional/interdisciplinary communication and collaboration.

**Requirements**

- 1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in a Level II NICU or above, or successful completion of a KP Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) course or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.
- Registered Nurse License (California).
- Basic Life Support from American Heart Association.
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program.

**Additional Requirements**

- May be required to train for higher level of care.
- May be expected to cross train to at least 1 other Perinatal area.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience attending deliveries to care for baby & neonatal codes preferred.

**Work Schedule**

- Primary Location: California, Harbor City, South Bay Medical Center
- Hours Per Week: 24
- Shift: Night
- Workdays: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
- Working Hours Start: 07:00 PM
- Working Hours End: 07:30 AM
- Job Schedule: Part-time
- Job Type: Standard
- Employee Status: Regular
- Employee Group/Union Affiliation: B13 AFSCME UNAC
- Job Level: Individual Contributor
- Job Category: Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
- Department: South Bay Med Center - Neo-Natal ICU Unit -1 - 0801
- Travel: No

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.

Job Summary: As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization. Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect. Essential Responsibilities: The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors: Leadership:<ul><li>Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.</li><li>Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.</li><li>Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.</li><li>Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.</li><li>Champions new ideas.</li><li>Leads and directs others through the change process.</li><li>Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.</li><li>Participates in problem identification and resolution.</li><li>Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities</li><li>Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.</li><li>Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.</li><li>Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.</li><li>Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.</li></ul> Nursing Process:<ul><li>Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.</li><li>Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.</li><li>Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.</li><li>Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.</li><li>Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.</li><li>Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.</li><li>Ensures care meets standards of practice.</li><li>Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education. Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.</li><li>Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.</li><li>Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.</li><li>Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.</li></ul> Documentation:<ul><li>Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.</li><li>Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken. </li><li>Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.</li></ul> Clinical Outcomes:<ul><li>Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.</li><li>Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.</li><li>Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.</li><li>Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.</li></ul> Workplace Safety:<ul><li>Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.</li><li>Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others</li></ul> Patient Care Experience:<ul><li>Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.</li><li>Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.</li><li>Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.</li><li>Maintains and protects patient confidentiality</li><li>Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.</li><li>Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.</li><li>Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.</li><li>Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.</li><li>Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.</li></ul> Team Commitment:<ul><li>Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.</li><li>Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.</li><li>Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.</li><li>Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.</li><li>Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).</li><li>Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.</li><li>Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.</li><li>Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.</li><li>Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.</li></ul> Fiscal Responsibility<ul><li>Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.</li><li>Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.</li><li>Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.</li><li> </li></ul> Basic Qualifications: Experience <ul><li> One (1) year recent (within the last three (3) years) full-time equivalent experience in L&D, or successful completion of a KP L&D course (which includes basic fetal monitoring and NRP) or approved equivalent within prior 12 months. </li></ul> Education <ul><li> N/A </li></ul> License, Certification, Registration <ul><li> Registered Nurse License (California) </li><li> Advanced Cardiac Life Support </li><li> Neonatal Resuscitation Program </li><li> Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Advanced Fetal Monitoring Certificate within twelve (12) months of hire </li><li> Basic Life Support </li></ul> Additional Requirements: <ul><li> May be expected to cross train to at least one (1) other Perinatal area. </li><li> Ability to scrub and circulate as required. </li></ul> Notes: <ul><li> If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:15 pm - 7:45 am with 8-hour back up shift 11:00 pm - 7:00 am. </li></ul>PrimaryLocation : California,Downey,Downey Medical Center HoursPerWeek : 36 Shift : Night Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat WorkingHoursStart : 07:15 PM WorkingHoursEnd : 07:45 AM Job Schedule : Full-time Job Type : Standard Employee Status : Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B13 AFSCME UNAC Job Level : Individual Contributor Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners Department : Downey Medical Center - Labor & Delivery-General - 0801 Travel : No Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:<li>Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.</li><li>Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.</li> . click apply for full job details<img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?131JCD7WTYiMxiusXc4yQAf" width="0" height="0" />

**Registered Nurse - Labor and Delivery**

As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization. Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect.

**Job Description**

- Upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal, and local laws.
- Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
- Understands own and team members' scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
- Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.
- Champions new ideas.
- Leads and directs others through the change process.
- Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
- Participates in problem identification and resolution.
- Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit-specific operations and patient care activities.
- Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds them accountable for performance.
- Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
- Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
- Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
- Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
- Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
- Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, ongoing findings, age-appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
- Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
- Monitors the patient's progress based on the plan.
- Revises plan on an ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
- Ensures care meets standards of practice.
- Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education. Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identifies barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
- Ensures patient safety related but not limited to medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention; and prevention of nosocomial infections.
- Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
- Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
- Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.
- Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken.
- Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.
- Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.
- Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.
- Makes comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.
- Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.
- Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.
- Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others.
- Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
- Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
- Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers' ability to utilize resources.
- Maintains and protects patient confidentiality.
- Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
- Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness, and compassion.
- Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
- Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
- Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members' expectations.
- Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
- Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
- Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
- Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
- Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services, and staff meetings as required; actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).
- Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
- Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.
- Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.
- Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit-based teams.
- Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
- Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
- Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.

**Requirements**

- One (1) year recent (within the last three (3) years) full-time equivalent experience in Labor & Delivery or successful completion of a KP Labor & Delivery course (which includes basic fetal monitoring and NRP) or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.

**Qualifications**

**Experience**

- One (1) year recent (within the last three (3) years) full-time equivalent experience in Labor & Delivery or successful completion of a KP Labor & Delivery course (which includes basic fetal monitoring and NRP) or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.

**Education**

- N/A

**License, Certification, Registration**

- Registered Nurse License (California)
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program
- Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Advanced Fetal Monitoring Certificate within twelve (12) months of hire
- Basic Life Support

**Additional Requirements**

- May be expected to cross-train to at least one (1) other Perinatal area.
- Ability to scrub and circulate as required.

**Notes**

- If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:15 PM - 7:45 AM with 8-hour backup shift 11:00 PM - 7:00 AM.

Job Summary: Under the medical supervision of an Anesthesiologist, administers general and regional anesthesia for all types of surgical, obstetrical and other procedures that require anesthesia services, to patients of various age groups including: neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric in accordance with hospital and departmental standards of care. Such intervention may include, but not be limited to: airway management; maintenance of fluid balance; homeostasis; monitoring; response to emergencies related to airway management and cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and management of patients on ventilators. Essential Responsibilities:<ul> <li>Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities and applicable state, federal and local laws.</li><li>Complies with organizational rules, policies and procedures (i.e. TJC, Title 22, Regional and Department requirements).</li><li>Evaluates patients pre-operatively by interviewing and examining patient.</li><li>Reviews chart for relevant information.</li><li>In collaboration with the anesthesiologist selects anesthetic for patient based on pre-operative examination.</li><li>Demonstrates an understanding of the cognitive, physical, emotional and chronological maturation process in delivery of services to patients of each age group served: neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric.</li><li>Selects anesthetic for patient based on pre-operative examination.</li><li>Evaluates patients response to pre-medication.</li><li>Communicates with surgeon and anesthesiologist regarding special concerns of patient.</li><li>Checks anesthesia equipment daily and between cases to assure safe operating condition.</li><li>Prepares drugs for administration.</li><li>Administers anesthesia in accordance with delineated clinical privileges and any conditions or restrictions imposed thereof.</li><li>Monitors the patient intraoperatively.</li><li>Evaluates operative and post-operative condition of patient and takes necessary action to maintain stability.</li><li>Evaluates the patients postoperatively (within 24 hours).</li><li>Precepts student nurse anesthetists.</li><li>Maintains an accurate accounting of controlled substances in accordance with departmental guidelines.</li><li>Maintains equipment and supplies as outlined in department policies and procedures.</li><li>Complies with organizational rules, policies and procedures (i.e. TJC, CAC Title 22, Regional and Department requirements).</li><li>Establishes and maintains courteous and cooperative relations when interacting with public, patients, staff and other personnel.</li><li>May perform other duties within scope of licensure/certification as required.</li></ul> Basic Qualifications: Experience <ul><li> N/A. </li></ul> Education <ul><li> Graduate of an educational program in Nurse Anesthesia accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs and Schools. </li></ul> License, Certification, Registration <ul><li> Registered Nurse License (California) </li></ul><ul><li> Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (California) </li></ul><ul><li> Advanced Cardiac Life Support </li></ul><ul><li> Basic Life Support </li></ul><ul><li> National Provider Identifier </li></ul><ul><li> Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist National Certification </li></ul> Additional Requirements: <ul><li> Experience in anesthesia for major procedures involving extensive monitoring and fluid, blood, and electrolyte replacement for various age group patients. </li><li> CRNAs must demonstrate both technical/clinical and professional skill and ability along with all related techniques and procedures within the scope of practice as defined by the State of California Department of Consumer Affairs. </li><li> Additional skills are required in charting and documentation, knowledge of equipment and supplies, productivity, job and personal maturity communication, and education and staff development. </li></ul> Preferred Qualifications: <ul><li> A hiring manager may specify Preferred Qualifications, which are desirable and above and beyond the requirements specified in the Minimum Qualifications section above. </li><li> Please keep in mind that any such Preferred Qualifications should be job related and relevant (i.e., directly related to the duties and responsibilities described in this Job Description) and stated in non-prejudicial language. </li><li> PALS required. </li></ul>PrimaryLocation : California,Downey,Downey Medical Center HoursPerWeek : 40 Shift : Variable Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat WorkingHoursStart : 12:01 AM WorkingHoursEnd : 11:59 PM Job Schedule : Full-time Job Type : Standard Employee Status : Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B12 KPNAA KPNAA Job Level : Individual Contributor Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners Department : Downey Medical Center - Anesthesiology-Inpatient - 0806 Travel : Yes, 75 % of the Time Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:<li>Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.</li><li>Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.</li><li>Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.</li><img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?131JCD7WTYiwEstTKxXTVQf" width="0" height="0" />

**Anesthetist**

Under the medical supervision of an Anesthesiologist, administers general and regional anesthesia for all types of surgical, obstetrical, and other procedures that require anesthesia services, to patients of various age groups including neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric in accordance with hospital and departmental standards of care. Such intervention may include, but not be limited to: airway management; maintenance of fluid balance; homeostasis; monitoring; response to emergencies related to airway management and cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and management of patients on ventilators.

**Job Description**

- Upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal, and local laws.
- Complies with organizational rules, policies, and procedures (i.e., TJC, Title 22, Regional and Department requirements).
- Evaluates patients pre-operatively by interviewing and examining the patient.
- Reviews chart for relevant information.
- In collaboration with the anesthesiologist, selects anesthetic for patient based on pre-operative examination.
- Demonstrates an understanding of the cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological maturation process in delivery of services to patients of each age group served: neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric.
- Selects anesthetic for patient based on pre-operative examination.
- Evaluates patients' response to pre-medication.
- Communicates with surgeon and anesthesiologist regarding special concerns of patient.
- Checks anesthesia equipment daily and between cases to assure safe operating condition.
- Prepares drugs for administration.
- Administers anesthesia in accordance with delineated clinical privileges and any conditions or restrictions imposed thereof.
- Monitors the patient intraoperatively.
- Evaluates operative and post-operative condition of patient and takes necessary action to maintain stability.
- Evaluates the patient's postoperatively (within 24 hours).
- Precepts student nurse anesthetists.
- Maintains an accurate accounting of controlled substances in accordance with departmental guidelines.
- Maintains equipment and supplies as outlined in department policies and procedures.
- Complies with organizational rules, policies, and procedures (i.e., TJC, CAC Title 22, Regional and Department requirements).
- Establishes and maintains courteous and cooperative relations when interacting with public, patients, staff, and other personnel.
- May perform other duties within scope of licensure/certification as required.

**Requirements**

- Graduate of an educational program in Nurse Anesthesia accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs and Schools.
- Registered Nurse License (California).
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (California).
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification.
- Basic Life Support certification.
- National Provider Identifier.
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist National Certification.

**Additional Requirements**

- Experience in anesthesia for major procedures involving extensive monitoring and fluid, blood, and electrolyte replacement for various age group patients.
- CRNAs must demonstrate both technical/clinical and professional skill and ability along with all related techniques and procedures within the scope of practice as defined by the State of California Department of Consumer Affairs.
- Additional skills are required in charting and documentation, knowledge of equipment and supplies, productivity, job and personal maturity communication, and education and staff development.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- A hiring manager may specify Preferred Qualifications, which are desirable and above and beyond the requirements specified in the Minimum Qualifications section above.
- PALS required.

**Work Schedule**

- Hours per week: 40
- Shift: Variable
- Workdays: Sunday through Saturday
- Working hours start: 12:01 AM
- Working hours end: 11:59 PM
- Job Schedule: Full-time
- Job Type: Standard
- Employee Status: Regular
- Employee Group/Union Affiliation: B12 KPNAA KPNAA
- Job Level: Individual Contributor
- Job Category: Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
- Department: Downey Medical Center - Anesthesiology-Inpatient - 0806
- Travel: Yes, 75% of the time

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), Downey (Full Time)

Job Summary: As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization. Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect. Essential Responsibilities: The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors: Leadership:<ul> <li>Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.</li><li>Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.</li><li>Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.</li><li>Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.</li><li>Champions new ideas.</li><li>Leads and directs others through the change process.</li><li>Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.</li><li>Participates in problem identification and resolution.</li><li>Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities</li><li>Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.</li><li>Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.</li><li>Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.</li><li>Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.</li></ul> Nursing Process:<ul> <li>Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.</li><li>Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.</li><li>Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.</li><li>Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.</li><li>Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.</li><li>Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.</li><li>Ensures care meets standards of practice.</li><li>Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education. Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.</li><li>Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.</li><li>Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.</li><li>Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.</li></ul> Documentation:<ul> <li>Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.</li><li>Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken. </li><li>Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.</li></ul> Clinical Outcomes:<ul> <li>Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.</li><li>Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.</li><li>Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.</li><li>Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.</li></ul> Workplace Safety:<ul> <li>Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.</li><li>Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others</li></ul> Patient Care Experience:<ul> <li>Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.</li><li>Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.</li><li>Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.</li><li>Maintains and protects patient confidentiality</li><li>Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.</li><li>Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.</li><li>Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.</li><li>Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.</li><li>Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.</li></ul> Team Commitment:<ul> <li>Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.</li><li>Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.</li><li>Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.</li><li>Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.</li><li>Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).</li><li>Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.</li><li>Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.</li><li>Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.</li><li>Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.</li></ul> Fiscal Responsibility<ul> <li>Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.</li><li>Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.</li><li>Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.</li></ul> Basic Qualifications: Experience<ul><li>1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in Critical Care, or successful completion of a KP Critical Care course or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.</li></ul> Education<ul><li>N/A</li></ul> License, Certification, Registration<ul><li>Registered Nurse License (California)</li></ul><ul><li>Basic Life Support </li></ul><ul><li>Advanced Cardiac Life Support</li></ul> Additional Requirements:<ul><li>N/A</li></ul> Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>N/A</li></ul> Notes: If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:00pm -7:30 am, back up 8 hour shift will be 3:00pm -11:30pm PrimaryLocation : California,Baldwin Park,Baldwin Park Hospital HoursPerWeek : 24 Shift : Night Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, WorkingHoursStart : 07:00 PM WorkingHoursEnd : 07:30 AM Job Schedule : Part-time Job Type : Standard Employee Status : Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B13 AFSCME UNAC Job Level : Individual Contributor Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners Department : Baldwin Park Med Center - ICU - Coronary care Unit- 1 - 0801 Travel : No Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:<li>Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.</li><li>Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.</li><li>Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets . click apply for full job details<img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?k1m2373UHoKJGyHDTldIvQv" width="0" height="0" />

**Registered Nurse**

As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization. Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect.

**Job Description**

- Upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal, and local laws.
- Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
- Understands own and team members' scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
- Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.
- Champions new ideas.
- Leads and directs others through the change process.
- Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
- Participates in problem identification and resolution.
- Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit-specific operations and patient care activities.
- Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds them accountable for performance.
- Demonstrates ability to problem-solve with other departments to assist member problem resolution.
- Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
- Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
- Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
- Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
- Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, ongoing findings, age-appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
- Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
- Monitors the patient's progress based on the plan.
- Revises plan on an ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
- Ensures care meets standards of practice.
- Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education. Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identifies barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
- Ensures patient safety related but not limited to medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention; and prevention of nosocomial infections.
- Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
- Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
- Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.
- Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken.
- Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.
- Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.
- Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.
- Makes comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.
- Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.
- Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.
- Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others.
- Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
- Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
- Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers' ability to utilize resources.
- Maintains and protects patient confidentiality.
- Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
- Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness, and compassion.
- Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
- Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
- Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members' expectations.
- Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
- Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
- Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
- Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
- Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services, and staff meetings as required; actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).
- Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
- Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.
- Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.
- Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit-based teams.
- Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
- Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
- Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.

**Requirements**

- 1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in Critical Care or successful completion of a KP Critical Care course or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.

**Licenses & Certifications**

- Registered Nurse License (California)
- Basic Life Support
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support

**Notes**

If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:00 PM - 7:30 AM; backup 8-hour shift will be 3:00 PM - 11:30 PM.

Primary Location: California, Baldwin Park, Baldwin Park Hospital  
Hours Per Week: 24  
Shift: Night  
Workdays: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat  
Working Hours Start: 07:00 PM  
Working Hours End: 07:30 AM  
Job Schedule: Part-time  
Job Type: Standard  
Employee Status: Regular  
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: B13 AFSCME UNAC  
Job Level: Individual Contributor  
Job Category: Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners  
Department: Baldwin Park Med Center - ICU - Coronary Care Unit - 1 - 0801  
Travel: No  

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.

Job Summary: As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization. Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect. Essential Responsibilities: The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors: Leadership:<ul><li>Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.</li><li>Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.</li><li>Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.</li><li>Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.</li><li>Champions new ideas.</li><li>Leads and directs others through the change process.</li><li>Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.</li><li>Participates in problem identification and resolution.</li><li>Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities</li><li>Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.</li><li>Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.</li><li>Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.</li><li>Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.</li></ul> Nursing Process:<ul><li>Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.</li><li>Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.</li><li>Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.</li><li>Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.</li><li>Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.</li><li>Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.</li><li>Ensures care meets standards of practice.</li><li>Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education. Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.</li><li>Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.</li><li>Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.</li><li>Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.</li></ul> Documentation:<ul><li>Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.</li><li>Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken. </li><li>Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.</li></ul> Clinical Outcomes:<ul><li>Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.</li><li>Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.</li><li>Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.</li><li>Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.</li></ul> Workplace Safety:<ul><li>Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.</li><li>Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others</li></ul> Patient Care Experience:<ul><li>Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.</li><li>Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.</li><li>Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.</li><li>Maintains and protects patient confidentiality</li><li>Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.</li><li>Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.</li><li>Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.</li><li>Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.</li><li>Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.</li></ul> Team Commitment:<ul><li>Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.</li><li>Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.</li><li>Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.</li><li>Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.</li><li>Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).</li><li>Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.</li><li>Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.</li><li>Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.</li><li>Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.</li></ul> Fiscal Responsibility<ul><li>Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.</li><li>Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.</li><li>Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.</li><li> </li></ul> Basic Qualifications: Experience <ul><li> One (1) year recent (within the last three (3) years) full-time equivalent experience in L&D, or successful completion of a KP L&D course (which includes basic fetal monitoring and NRP) or approved equivalent within prior 12 months. </li></ul> Education <ul><li> N/A </li></ul> License, Certification, Registration <ul><li> Registered Nurse License (California) </li><li> Advanced Cardiac Life Support </li><li> Neonatal Resuscitation Program </li><li> Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Advanced Fetal Monitoring Certificate within twelve (12) months of hire </li><li> Basic Life Support </li></ul> Additional Requirements: <ul><li> May be expected to cross train to at least one (1) other Perinatal area. </li><li> Ability to scrub and circulate as required. </li></ul> Notes: <ul><li> If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:15 pm - 7:45 am with 8-hour back up shift 11:00 pm - 7:00 am. </li></ul>PrimaryLocation : California,Downey,Downey Medical Center HoursPerWeek : 36 Shift : Night Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat WorkingHoursStart : 07:15 PM WorkingHoursEnd : 07:45 AM Job Schedule : Full-time Job Type : Standard Employee Status : Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B13 AFSCME UNAC Job Level : Individual Contributor Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners Department : Downey Medical Center - Labor & Delivery-General - 0801 Travel : No Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:<li>Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.</li><li>Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.</li> . click apply for full job details<img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?1e0y9QmKNagTGfM10UwZvAa" width="0" height="0" />

**Registered Nurse - Labor and Delivery**

As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization. Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect.

**Job Description**

- Upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal, and local laws.
- Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
- Understands own and team members' scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
- Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.
- Champions new ideas.
- Leads and directs others through the change process.
- Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
- Participates in problem identification and resolution.
- Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit-specific operations and patient care activities.
- Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds them accountable for performance.
- Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
- Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
- Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
- Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
- Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
- Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, ongoing findings, age-appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
- Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
- Monitors the patient's progress based on the plan.
- Revises plan on an ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
- Ensures care meets standards of practice.
- Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education. Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identifies barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
- Ensures patient safety related but not limited to medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention; and prevention of nosocomial infections.
- Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
- Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
- Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.
- Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken.
- Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.
- Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.
- Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.
- Makes comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.
- Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.
- Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.
- Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others.
- Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
- Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
- Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers' ability to utilize resources.
- Maintains and protects patient confidentiality.
- Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
- Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness, and compassion.
- Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
- Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
- Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members' expectations.
- Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
- Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
- Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
- Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
- Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services, and staff meetings as required; actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).
- Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
- Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.
- Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.
- Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit-based teams.
- Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
- Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
- Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.

**Requirements**

- One (1) year recent (within the last three (3) years) full-time equivalent experience in Labor & Delivery or successful completion of a KP Labor & Delivery course (which includes basic fetal monitoring and NRP) or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.

**Qualifications**

- Registered Nurse License (California)
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program
- Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Advanced Fetal Monitoring Certificate within twelve (12) months of hire
- Basic Life Support

**Additional Requirements**

- May be expected to cross-train to at least one (1) other Perinatal area.
- Ability to scrub and circulate as required.

**Notes**

If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:15 PM - 7:45 AM with 8-hour backup shift 11:00 PM - 7:00 AM.

Job Summary: Functions as a Lead of the healthcare team, coordinates departmental operations that ensure quality patient care in a safe, healing environment that is patient and family centered. Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice. Has appropriate clinical skills to be an expert resource. Is available and supportive to employees and understands priorities/needs of the department. Is a staff role model for professional nursing practice. May recommend to management in efficient resource allocation by assuring appropriate patient assignments, staffing, and scheduling. Demonstrates performance consistent with the strategic plan of the organization and the KP nursing mission and values. Essential Responsibilities: The Charge Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors: Leadership:<ul> <li>Directs reviews, assigns and organizes the work of at least three (3) or more employees, of which at least one (1) must be another Registered Nurse.</li><li>Applies the KP Nursing mission, vision, values and behaviors in daily practice. Understands needs and sets priorities for the department.</li><li>Provides professional leadership and direction of department personnel in order to maintain efficient delivery of effective patient care.</li><li>Coordinates departmental operations and delegates tasks appropriately. Is an excellent staff role model for professional nursing practice (e.g. RN/MD Collaborating for Outcomes, Just Culture, Quality, Service, Safety). Supports and enhances the leadership skills of the staff RNs, LVNs and UAs/CNAs (and other ancillary staff as appropriate).</li><li>Upholds compliance with Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, applicable state and federal laws and regulations, and accreditation and licensure requirements.</li><li>Upholds the standards of the California Nurse Practice Act, American Nurses Association</li><li>(ANA) Standards of Nursing Practice, and ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses.</li><li>Champions new ideas; Actively collaborates with others through the change process.</li><li>Acts as a resource, preceptor and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members in department specific operations and patient care activities.</li><li>Collaborates with or refers to manager/clinical nurse specialist/educator any outstanding issues or concerns on the unit. Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve problems in collaboration with work team and with other departments.</li><li>Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.</li><li>Participates in activities related to patient flow, including admission and discharge processes. Facilitates inter-professional/interdisciplinary communication and collaboration.</li></ul> Nursing Process:<ul> <li>Serves as a resource for clinical concerns, scope of practice and applicable state and federal regulations as well as operational concerns of providers and staff. Possesses experience and skills to be a resource for providers, RNs, LVNs, USs/CNAs, (and other ancillary staff as appropriate).</li><li>Demonstrates flexibility in work schedule to meet the department demands of the day; facilitates and relieves staff breaks.</li><li>Actively involved in assigning, orienting, and precepting and coaching staff as needed.</li></ul> Documentation:<ul> <li>Conducts audits and ensures that documentation reflects thorough assessments, incorporates physical and psychosocial findings, diagnostic tests, learning needs, barriers, multidisciplinary education plans and age appropriate care.</li></ul> Clinical Outcomes:<ul> <li>Participates/leads various aspects of department operations, staff competencies, department committees, Unit Based Teams (UBTs), new projects, quality efforts, and educational programs.</li><li>Demonstrates knowledge of patients specific conditions commonly seen in the department and care required. Interfaces with leadership, peers, physicians, other healthcare providers, and support staff regarding performance, as necessary.</li><li>Actively participates, champions and motivates other staff in quality improvement in patient care, workflow, and improvement in clinical initiatives and working conditions of the department. Provides input on employees performance evaluations through daily observation and monitoring of performance.</li></ul> Workplace Safety:<ul> <li>Adjusts staffing needs of the department to assure quality patient care, patient and staff safety, efficiency, productivity and working conditions of provider and staff. Actively models Labor-Management Partnership (LMP) Workplace Safety principles and practices.</li></ul> Patient Care Experience/Customer Service:<ul> <li>Acts as a role model for staff regarding providing a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.</li><li>Ensures timely and appropriate management of patients.</li><li>Coordinates smooth transition for patients across the care continuum. Participates in daily leadership rounds, documents rounding activities on unit rounding logs (as appropriate.). Assures hourly rounds are conducted by staff. Where appropriate, assures hourly rounds are documented according to unit/facility policy or guidelines.</li></ul> Team Commitment:<ul> <li>Ensures support of the collaborative LMP environment through unit based teams (UBTs). Identifies and supports staff professional/clinical development needs (i.e. certification, presentations, reward/recognition).</li><li>Motivates staff to attain their fullest potential in improving performance, attendance, access, service and quality outcomes. Lead/facilitate daily/shift multidisciplinary huddles. Assures huddle messages are consistently communicated. Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.</li></ul> Fiscal Responsibility:<ul> <li>Participates in resource allocation (assignments, scheduling, staffing, equipment/supplies management). Collaborates and assists with leadership, physicians, and peers in staffing, workflow and throughput to promote quality patient care, patient and staff safety, efficiency, productivity and working conditions of providers and staff.</li></ul> Professional Development:<ul> <li>Attends Charge Nurse Educational programs. Takes responsibility for professional growth and development.</li></ul> Basic Qualifications: Experience<ul><li>1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in a Level II NICU or above, or successful completion of a KP Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) course or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.</li></ul> Education License, Certification, Registration<ul><li>Registered Nurse License (California)</li></ul><ul><li>Basic Life Support from American Heart Association</li></ul><ul><li>Neonatal Resuscitation Program</li></ul> Additional Requirements:<ul><li>May be required to train for higher level of care.</li><li>May be expected to cross train to at least 1 other Perinatal area.</li></ul> Preferred Qualifications: Notes:<ul><li>Experience attending deliveries to care for baby & neonatal codes preferred. </li><li>If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:00 pm-7:30 am, back up 8 hour shift will be </li></ul> PrimaryLocation : California,Harbor City,South Bay Medical Center HoursPerWeek : 24 Shift : Night Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat WorkingHoursStart : 07:00 PM WorkingHoursEnd : 07:30 AM Job Schedule : Part-time Job Type : Standard Employee Status : Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B13 AFSCME UNAC Job Level : Individual Contributor Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners Department : South Bay Med Center - Neo-Natal ICU Unit -1 - 0801 Travel : No Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:<li>Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.</li><li>Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.</li><li>Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments . click apply for full job details<img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?7skQjdkbdIMZd3FTpmqzAAt" width="0" height="0" />

**Charge Registered Nurse**

Functions as a Lead of the healthcare team, coordinates departmental operations that ensure quality patient care in a safe, healing environment that is patient and family centered. Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice. Has appropriate clinical skills to be an expert resource. Is available and supportive to employees and understands priorities/needs of the department. Is a staff role model for professional nursing practice. May recommend to management in efficient resource allocation by assuring appropriate patient assignments, staffing, and scheduling. Demonstrates performance consistent with the strategic plan of the organization and the KP nursing mission and values.

**Job Description**

- Directs reviews, assigns, and organizes the work of at least three (3) or more employees, of which at least one (1) must be another Registered Nurse.
- Applies the KP Nursing mission, vision, values, and behaviors in daily practice. Understands needs and sets priorities for the department.
- Provides professional leadership and direction of department personnel in order to maintain efficient delivery of effective patient care.
- Coordinates departmental operations and delegates tasks appropriately. Is an excellent staff role model for professional nursing practice (e.g., RN/MD Collaborating for Outcomes, Just Culture, Quality, Service, Safety). Supports and enhances the leadership skills of the staff RNs, LVNs, and UAs/CNAs (and other ancillary staff as appropriate).
- Upholds compliance with Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, applicable state and federal laws and regulations, and accreditation and licensure requirements.
- Upholds the standards of the California Nurse Practice Act, American Nurses Association (ANA) Standards of Nursing Practice, and ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses.
- Champions new ideas; actively collaborates with others through the change process.
- Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members in department-specific operations and patient care activities.
- Collaborates with or refers to manager/clinical nurse specialist/educator any outstanding issues or concerns on the unit. Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve problems in collaboration with work team and with other departments.
- Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
- Participates in activities related to patient flow, including admission and discharge processes. Facilitates inter-professional/interdisciplinary communication and collaboration.
- Serves as a resource for clinical concerns, scope of practice, and applicable state and federal regulations as well as operational concerns of providers and staff. Possesses experience and skills to be a resource for providers, RNs, LVNs, USs/CNAs (and other ancillary staff as appropriate).
- Demonstrates flexibility in work schedule to meet the department demands of the day; facilitates and relieves staff breaks.
- Actively involved in assigning, orienting, precepting, and coaching staff as needed.
- Conducts audits and ensures that documentation reflects thorough assessments, incorporates physical and psychosocial findings, diagnostic tests, learning needs, barriers, multidisciplinary education plans, and age-appropriate care.
- Participates/leads various aspects of department operations, staff competencies, department committees, Unit Based Teams (UBTs), new projects, quality efforts, and educational programs.
- Demonstrates knowledge of patients' specific conditions commonly seen in the department and care required. Interfaces with leadership, peers, physicians, other healthcare providers, and support staff regarding performance as necessary.
- Actively participates, champions, and motivates other staff in quality improvement in patient care, workflow, and improvement in clinical initiatives and working conditions of the department. Provides input on employees' performance evaluations through daily observation and monitoring of performance.
- Adjusts staffing needs of the department to assure quality patient care, patient and staff safety, efficiency, productivity, and working conditions of provider and staff. Actively models Labor-Management Partnership (LMP) Workplace Safety principles and practices.
- Acts as a role model for staff regarding providing a patient care experience that exceeds members' expectations.
- Ensures timely and appropriate management of patients.
- Coordinates smooth transition for patients across the care continuum. Participates in daily leadership rounds; documents rounding activities on unit rounding logs (as appropriate). Assures hourly rounds are conducted by staff. Where appropriate, assures hourly rounds are documented according to unit/facility policy or guidelines.
- Ensures support of the collaborative LMP environment through unit-based teams (UBTs). Identifies and supports staff professional/clinical development needs (i.e., certification, presentations, reward/recognition).
- Motivates staff to attain their fullest potential in improving performance, attendance, access, service, and quality outcomes. Leads/facilitates daily/shift multidisciplinary huddles. Assures huddle messages are consistently communicated. Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
- Participates in resource allocation (assignments, scheduling, staffing, equipment/supplies management). Collaborates and assists with leadership, physicians, and peers in staffing, workflow, and throughput to promote quality patient care, patient and staff safety, efficiency, productivity, and working conditions of providers and staff.
- Attends Charge Nurse Educational programs. Takes responsibility for professional growth and development.

**Requirements**

- 1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in a Level II NICU or above or successful completion of a KP Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) course or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.

**Qualifications**

- Registered Nurse License (California)
- Basic Life Support from American Heart Association
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program

**Additional Requirements**

- May be required to train for higher level of care.
- May be expected to cross-train to at least 1 other Perinatal area.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience attending deliveries to care for baby & neonatal codes preferred.

**Work Schedule**

- Primary Location: California, Harbor City, South Bay Medical Center
- Hours Per Week: 24
- Shift: Night
- Workdays: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
- Working Hours Start: 07:00 PM
- Working Hours End: 07:30 AM
- Job Schedule: Part-time
- Job Type: Standard
- Employee Status: Regular
- Employee Group/Union Affiliation: B13 AFSCME UNAC
- Job Level: Individual Contributor
- Job Category: Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
- Department: South Bay Med Center - Neo-Natal ICU Unit -1 - 0801
- Travel: No

Job Summary: Under the medical supervision of an Anesthesiologist, administers general and regional anesthesia for all types of surgical, obstetrical and other procedures that require anesthesia services, to patients of various age groups including: neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric in accordance with hospital and departmental standards of care. Such intervention may include, but not be limited to: airway management; maintenance of fluid balance; homeostasis; monitoring; response to emergencies related to airway management and cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and management of patients on ventilators. Essential Responsibilities:<ul> <li>Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities and applicable state, federal and local laws.</li><li>Complies with organizational rules, policies and procedures (i.e. TJC, Title 22, Regional and Department requirements).</li><li>Evaluates patients pre-operatively by interviewing and examining patient.</li><li>Reviews chart for relevant information.</li><li>In collaboration with the anesthesiologist selects anesthetic for patient based on pre-operative examination.</li><li>Demonstrates an understanding of the cognitive, physical, emotional and chronological maturation process in delivery of services to patients of each age group served: neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric.</li><li>Selects anesthetic for patient based on pre-operative examination.</li><li>Evaluates patients response to pre-medication.</li><li>Communicates with surgeon and anesthesiologist regarding special concerns of patient.</li><li>Checks anesthesia equipment daily and between cases to assure safe operating condition.</li><li>Prepares drugs for administration.</li><li>Administers anesthesia in accordance with delineated clinical privileges and any conditions or restrictions imposed thereof.</li><li>Monitors the patient intraoperatively.</li><li>Evaluates operative and post-operative condition of patient and takes necessary action to maintain stability.</li><li>Evaluates the patients postoperatively (within 24 hours).</li><li>Precepts student nurse anesthetists.</li><li>Maintains an accurate accounting of controlled substances in accordance with departmental guidelines.</li><li>Maintains equipment and supplies as outlined in department policies and procedures.</li><li>Complies with organizational rules, policies and procedures (i.e. TJC, CAC Title 22, Regional and Department requirements).</li><li>Establishes and maintains courteous and cooperative relations when interacting with public, patients, staff and other personnel.</li><li>May perform other duties within scope of licensure/certification as required.</li></ul> Basic Qualifications: Experience <ul><li> N/A. </li></ul> Education <ul><li> Graduate of an educational program in Nurse Anesthesia accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs and Schools. </li></ul> License, Certification, Registration <ul><li> Registered Nurse License (California) </li></ul><ul><li> Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (California) </li></ul><ul><li> Advanced Cardiac Life Support </li></ul><ul><li> Basic Life Support </li></ul><ul><li> National Provider Identifier </li></ul><ul><li> Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist National Certification </li></ul> Additional Requirements: <ul><li> Experience in anesthesia for major procedures involving extensive monitoring and fluid, blood, and electrolyte replacement for various age group patients. </li><li> CRNAs must demonstrate both technical/clinical and professional skill and ability along with all related techniques and procedures within the scope of practice as defined by the State of California Department of Consumer Affairs. </li><li> Additional skills are required in charting and documentation, knowledge of equipment and supplies, productivity, job and personal maturity communication, and education and staff development. </li></ul> Preferred Qualifications: <ul><li> A hiring manager may specify Preferred Qualifications, which are desirable and above and beyond the requirements specified in the Minimum Qualifications section above. </li><li> Please keep in mind that any such Preferred Qualifications should be job related and relevant (i.e., directly related to the duties and responsibilities described in this Job Description) and stated in non-prejudicial language. </li><li> PALS required. </li></ul>PrimaryLocation : California,Downey,Downey Medical Center HoursPerWeek : 40 Shift : Variable Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat WorkingHoursStart : 12:01 AM WorkingHoursEnd : 11:59 PM Job Schedule : Full-time Job Type : Standard Employee Status : Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B12 KPNAA KPNAA Job Level : Individual Contributor Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners Department : Downey Medical Center - Anesthesiology-Inpatient - 0806 Travel : Yes, 75 % of the Time Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:<li>Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.</li><li>Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.</li><li>Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.</li><img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?lASxSgQ06XCCK27onxpYhwk" width="0" height="0" />

**Anesthetist**

Under the medical supervision of an Anesthesiologist, administers general and regional anesthesia for all types of surgical, obstetrical, and other procedures that require anesthesia services, to patients of various age groups including neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric in accordance with hospital and departmental standards of care. Such intervention may include, but not be limited to: airway management; maintenance of fluid balance; homeostasis; monitoring; response to emergencies related to airway management and cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and management of patients on ventilators.

**Job Description**

- Upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal, and local laws.
- Complies with organizational rules, policies, and procedures (i.e., TJC, Title 22, Regional and Department requirements).
- Evaluates patients pre-operatively by interviewing and examining the patient.
- Reviews chart for relevant information.
- In collaboration with the anesthesiologist, selects anesthetic for patient based on pre-operative examination.
- Demonstrates an understanding of the cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological maturation process in delivery of services to patients of each age group served: neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric.
- Evaluates patients' response to pre-medication.
- Communicates with surgeon and anesthesiologist regarding special concerns of patient.
- Checks anesthesia equipment daily and between cases to assure safe operating condition.
- Prepares drugs for administration.
- Administers anesthesia in accordance with delineated clinical privileges and any conditions or restrictions imposed thereof.
- Monitors the patient intraoperatively.
- Evaluates operative and post-operative condition of patient and takes necessary action to maintain stability.
- Evaluates the patient's postoperatively (within 24 hours).
- Precepts student nurse anesthetists.
- Maintains an accurate accounting of controlled substances in accordance with departmental guidelines.
- Maintains equipment and supplies as outlined in department policies and procedures.
- Establishes and maintains courteous and cooperative relations when interacting with public, patients, staff, and other personnel.
- May perform other duties within scope of licensure/certification as required.

**Requirements**

- Graduate of an educational program in Nurse Anesthesia accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs and Schools.
- Registered Nurse License (California).
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (California).
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification.
- Basic Life Support certification.
- National Provider Identifier.
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist National Certification.

**Additional Requirements**

- Experience in anesthesia for major procedures involving extensive monitoring and fluid, blood, and electrolyte replacement for various age group patients.
- CRNAs must demonstrate both technical/clinical and professional skill and ability along with all related techniques and procedures within the scope of practice as defined by the State of California Department of Consumer Affairs.
- Additional skills are required in charting and documentation, knowledge of equipment and supplies, productivity, job and personal maturity communication, and education and staff development.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- A hiring manager may specify Preferred Qualifications, which are desirable and above and beyond the requirements specified in the Minimum Qualifications section above.
- PALS required.

**Work Schedule**

- Hours per week: 40
- Shift: Variable
- Workdays: Sunday through Saturday
- Working hours start: 12:01 AM
- Working hours end: 11:59 PM
- Job Schedule: Full-time
- Job Type: Standard
- Employee Status: Regular
- Employee Group/Union Affiliation: B12 KPNAA KPNAA
- Job Level: Individual Contributor
- Job Category: Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
- Department: Downey Medical Center - Anesthesiology-Inpatient - 0806
- Travel: Yes, 75% of the time

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.

Job Summary: As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization. Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect. Essential Responsibilities: The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors: Leadership:<ul> <li>Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.</li><li>Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.</li><li>Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.</li><li>Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.</li><li>Champions new ideas.</li><li>Leads and directs others through the change process.</li><li>Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.</li><li>Participates in problem identification and resolution.</li><li>Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities</li><li>Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.</li><li>Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.</li><li>Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.</li><li>Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.</li></ul> Nursing Process:<ul> <li>Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.</li><li>Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.</li><li>Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.</li><li>Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.</li><li>Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.</li><li>Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.</li><li>Ensures care meets standards of practice.</li><li>Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education. Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.</li><li>Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.</li><li>Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.</li><li>Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.</li></ul> Documentation:<ul> <li>Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.</li><li>Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken. </li><li>Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.</li></ul> Clinical Outcomes:<ul> <li>Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.</li><li>Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.</li><li>Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.</li><li>Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.</li></ul> Workplace Safety:<ul> <li>Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.</li><li>Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others</li></ul> Patient Care Experience:<ul> <li>Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.</li><li>Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.</li><li>Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.</li><li>Maintains and protects patient confidentiality</li><li>Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.</li><li>Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.</li><li>Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.</li><li>Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.</li><li>Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.</li></ul> Team Commitment:<ul> <li>Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.</li><li>Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.</li><li>Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.</li><li>Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.</li><li>Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).</li><li>Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.</li><li>Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.</li><li>Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.</li><li>Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.</li></ul> Fiscal Responsibility<ul> <li>Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.</li><li>Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.</li><li>Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.</li></ul> Basic Qualifications: Experience<ul><li>1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in Critical Care, or successful completion of a KP Critical Care course or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.</li></ul> Education<ul><li>N/A</li></ul> License, Certification, Registration<ul><li>Registered Nurse License (California)</li></ul><ul><li>Basic Life Support </li></ul><ul><li>Advanced Cardiac Life Support</li></ul> Additional Requirements:<ul><li>N/A</li></ul> Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>N/A</li></ul> Notes: If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:00pm -7:30 am, back up 8 hour shift will be 3:00pm -11:30pm PrimaryLocation : California,Baldwin Park,Baldwin Park Hospital HoursPerWeek : 24 Shift : Night Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, WorkingHoursStart : 07:00 PM WorkingHoursEnd : 07:30 AM Job Schedule : Part-time Job Type : Standard Employee Status : Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B13 AFSCME UNAC Job Level : Individual Contributor Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners Department : Baldwin Park Med Center - ICU - Coronary care Unit- 1 - 0801 Travel : No Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:<li>Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.</li><li>Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.</li><li>Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets . click apply for full job details<img src="https://www.jobg8.com/Tracking.aspx?7skQjdkbdIPpxPkFpxKPGgt" width="0" height="0" />

**Registered Nurse**

As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization. Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect.

**Job Description**

- Upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal, and local laws.
- Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
- Understands own and team members' scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
- Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.
- Champions new ideas.
- Leads and directs others through the change process.
- Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
- Participates in problem identification and resolution.
- Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit-specific operations and patient care activities.
- Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds them accountable for performance.
- Demonstrates ability to problem-solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
- Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
- Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
- Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
- Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
- Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, ongoing findings, age-appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
- Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
- Monitors the patient's progress based on the plan.
- Revises plan on an ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
- Ensures care meets standards of practice.
- Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education. Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identifies barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
- Ensures patient safety related but not limited to medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention; and prevention of nosocomial infections.
- Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
- Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
- Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed.
- Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken.
- Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.
- Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.
- Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation.
- Makes comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes.
- Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.
- Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices.
- Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others.
- Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
- Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
- Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers' ability to utilize resources.
- Maintains and protects patient confidentiality.
- Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
- Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness, and compassion.
- Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
- Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
- Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members' expectations.
- Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
- Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
- Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
- Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
- Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services, and staff meetings as required; actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).
- Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
- Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.
- Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.
- Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit-based teams.
- Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
- Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
- Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.

**Requirements**

- 1-year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in Critical Care or successful completion of a KP Critical Care course or approved equivalent within prior 12 months.

**Licenses & Certifications**

- Registered Nurse License (California)
- Basic Life Support
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support

**Notes**

If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:00 PM - 7:30 AM; backup 8-hour shift will be 3:00 PM - 11:30 PM.

**Work Schedule**

Primary Location: California, Baldwin Park, Baldwin Park Hospital  
Hours Per Week: 24  
Shift: Night  
Workdays: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat  
Working Hours Start: 07:00 PM  
Working Hours End: 07:30 AM  
Job Schedule: Part-time  
Job Type: Standard  
Employee Status: Regular  
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: B13 AFSCME UNAC  
Job Level: Individual Contributor  
Job Category: Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners  
Department: Baldwin Park Med Center - ICU - Coronary Care Unit - 1 - 0801  
Travel: No  

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.