Specialty Unit Staff RN - PICC

Kaiser Permanente Panorama City Medical Center is seeking a Specialty Unit Staff RN to support PICC line placement and management. This per diem position offers flexibility while providing essential nursing care in a specialty unit setting.

As a member of the healthcare team, you will provide professional nursing care utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures. You will demonstrate performance consistent with the Medical Center's Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan while remaining flexible to changing systems and maintaining quality and effectiveness in clinical practice.

Responsibilities

• Develop and contribute to individualized patient care plans reflecting assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of outcomes
• Ensure care plans include multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education tailored to patient needs, age-appropriate care, and cultural considerations
• Discuss care plans with patients, families, and significant others in a timely manner
• Monitor patient progress based on the established plan and revise as needed based on patient condition and evaluation
• Ensure care meets established standards of practice
• Develop and complete discharge plans, identifying barriers and providing patient and family education
• Ensure patients understand discharge instructions, medication purposes, side effects, and administration instructions
• Maintain patient safety related to medications, procedures, fall prevention, decubitus prevention, and infection prevention
• Ensure optimal pain control and patient comfort; identify and discuss patient anxieties, fears, or concerns
• Maintain accurate, legible, dated, and timed documentation reflecting nursing process, interventions, and evaluations
• Utilize computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care
• Discuss patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and healthcare team members
• Demonstrate competencies during probationary period and ongoing completion through departmental competency validation
• Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and patient outcome evaluations
• Participate in departmental performance improvement activities
• Adhere to workplace safety principles and practices; apply standard precautions
• Practice customer service standards; promptly answer call lights, alarms, and patient requests
• Make appropriate referrals and facilitate patient access to resources
• Maintain and protect patient confidentiality
• Ensure clean, orderly, and functional work environment
• Treat patients and families with courtesy, respect, kindness, and compassion
• Provide optimal patient care experience by actively listening and taking responsibility for meeting identified needs
• Communicate patient information in ways patients can understand and ensure comprehension
• Serve as a leader of the healthcare team; delegate tasks appropriately and demonstrate accountability
• Understand own and team members' scope of practice; escalate issues as appropriate
• Demonstrate professional, supportive behavior and champion new ideas
• Lead and direct others through the change process
• Utilize communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation
• Participate in problem identification and resolution
• Mentor, orient, and coach others in unit-specific operations and patient care activities
• Share responsibility and authority with subordinates and hold them accountable for performance
• Problem solve with other departments to assist with member problem resolution
• Prioritize, delegate, and supervise work assignments to ensure completion of patient care activities
• Comply with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice
• Uphold Kaiser Permanente policies and procedures, Principles of Responsibility, and applicable state, federal, and local laws
• Act as an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others
• Confront difficult or conflict situations constructively and seek appropriate assistance
• Take accountability for own actions and accept constructive criticism
• Act as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members
• Attend all mandatory meetings, in-services, and staff meetings as required
• Actively participate in departmental professional development
• Participate in assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of annual education plans
• Keep informed of unit activities and make recommendations for change
• Adhere to attendance program; report to assigned area promptly and be present for shift report
• Support a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit-based teams
• Organize work to minimize overtime use
• Identify and assist in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction
• Utilize payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential

Required Qualifications

• One year of recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in acute hemodialysis, OR successful completion of a Kaiser Permanente acute hemodialysis course or approved equivalent within the prior 12 months
• Active California Registered Nurse License
• Basic Life Support certification
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification
• Ability to take call within a 60-minute response time

Schedule

• Per diem position
• 12-hour shift option: 9:00 AM to 9:30 PM, with backup 8-hour shift 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM
• Available Monday through Sunday
• Location: Panorama City Medical Center, Panorama City, California
• No travel required