RN Surgery
US-CA-BAKERSFIELD
commonspirit_careers
Req #: 448554
Type: Day
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Overview: Bakersfield Memorial Hospital includes 385 general acute beds, 48 licensed critical care beds, 13 state-of-the-art surgical suites, and a full-service Emergency Department with an Accredited Chest Pain Center and Nationally Certified Stroke Center. In addition, we offer a beautiful Family Care and Birthing Center, the Lauren Small Children s Center including the area s only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Family Care Center, a Level II NICU, the Sarvanand Heart, and Brain Center with Kern County s first Bi-Plane Interventional Suite, the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbarics, and many more services. Memorial Hospital is a Children's Miracle Network Hospital and is home to the Bakersfield Ronald McDonald House. Memorial Hospital is a member of Dignity Health and is a trusted community partner, serving residents of Bakersfield and Kern County with quality, compassionate care since 1956. Click here to learn more about Bakersfield Memorial Hospital. One Community. One Mission. One California Responsibilities: As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement. * SAFETY * Maintains current knowledge of all patient safety standards and National Patient Safety goals and consistently incorporates into nursing practice. * Able to safely administer medications and blood/blood products using the 7 (seven) rights of medication and blood administration. Uses 2 (two) separate hospital approved identifiers to safely identify the patient prior to medication / blood administration. * Maintain a safe, therapeutic work environment at all times and identifies and addresses problems to the appropriate departments. * Adheres to principles of infection control, including medical and surgical asepsis and isolation techniques. Demonstrates aseptic technique while conducting sterile dressing changes, urinary catheterizations, and other similar duties. * Receive, interpret and implement physician orders in a safe and timely manner. Uses hospital approved process for telephone and / or verbal orders that include a readback of all orders. Qualifications: Required * High School Graduate Education level necessary to obtainrequired licensure and certifications 1 year of operating room/ surgicalexperience. If operational conditionspermit, training a candidate without therequired experience may be considered., upon hire or * High School GED, upon hire * Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and * Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and * Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire and Preferred * Bachelors Other, upon hire * Pediatric Advanced Life Support, upon hire
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