Emergency Room RN - FT Night
Company: Kaiser Permanente
Location: San Diego
Posted on: April 3, 2026
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Job Description:
Description: 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: Upholds Kaiser Permanentes 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 him/her 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. Nursing Process:
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, on-going 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 patients progress
based on the plan. Revises plan on 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. Patient Care Experience : 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. Patient Care
Experience : 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. Team Commitment: 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.
Fiscal Responsibility: 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. Basic Qualifications:
Experience 6 (six) months recent (within the last 5 years)
full-time equivalent in ED or Critical Care, or successful
completion of a KP ED training program or approved equivalent
within prior 12 months. If an inexperienced RN is being considered,
and appropriate KP training program has been completed, will
consider the following: RN/IPs - new graduates and experienced RNs
not meeting above requirements: Candidate must be a graduate of a
BRN approved RN program and have completed 768 hours of supervised
RN student clinical training. Applicants will be required to
successfully complete a Kaiser Permanente Nursing Orientation
Program. IP applicants must receive RN license within three (3)
months of hire. Education Please refer to Minimum Education section
for full Qualifications. Experienced RNs: Applicant must have a
minimum of one (1) year full-time equivalent experience within the
past three (3) years as an RN. This experience must be within the
clinical area of specialty for the position of hire (enter
definition of clinical area of hire and additional qualifications
here). If an inexperienced RN is being considered, and appropriate
KP training program is available, will consider the following:
RN/IPs - new graduates and experienced RNs not meeting above
requirements: Applicant must be a graduate of a BRN approved RN
program and have completed 917 hours of supervised RN student
clinical training or as an RN applicant, is an LVN who has
graduated from an accredited, licensed vocational nursing program
that included supervised clinical student experience and has a
minimum of one (1) year of experience as an LVN in the clinical
area of RN hire within the past three years or comparable clinical
area as defined by the medical facility. Applicants will be
required to successfully complete a Kaiser Permanente Nursing
Orientation Program. IP applicants must receive RN license within 3
months of hire. License, Certification, Registration Registered
Nurse License (California) Pediatric Advanced Life Support Advanced
Cardiac Life Support from American Heart Association Basic Life
Support from American Heart Association Additional Requirements: No
information available at this time. Preferred Qualifications: No
information available at this time. No information available at
this time. Notes: If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be
7:00 am-7:30 pm, back up 8 hour shift will be 2300-0730 (40 hours
per week) Non Pay Day Weekend
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