Medical Acute Nurse
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Job overview
The Registered Nurse provides individualized care in an acute care setting, including assessments, skilled procedures, care planning, implementation, evaluation, and patient education. The role uses unit-specific technology and protocols, maintains accurate computerized documentation, and collaborates with an interdisciplinary team. The nurse also participates in staff orientation, mentors students, and serves as a resource to other nursing departments.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As a 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 be successful in this 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.
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Assessment: Performs total body and system assessment each shift/visit according to unit standards.
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Care of Patient: Including planning, implementing, evaluating and educating.
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Clinical/Technical Skills: Utilizes technology, procedures, protocols, standards and interventions specific to assigned unit.
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Documentation: Performs legible, timely, concise and accurate documentation according to policies and procedures. Proficient and competent with the computerized documentation system.
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Leadership: Accepts responsibility and accountability for own decisions and behaviors. Recognizes, accepts and cooperates with direction from facility leadership.
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Precepting/Mentoring: Participates in orientation of new staff, ancillary personnel and mentors students in a constructive and positive manner. Serves as resource to staff from other nursing departments.
Job Requirements
Required
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One (1) year of experience in a Medical/surgical acute care setting as an RN
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Active Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of California
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Basic Life Support (BLS) certification - American Heart Association
Preferred
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Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification - American Heart Association
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Previous telemetry experience
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Previous Surgical and Orthopedic experience
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1973, Dignity Health - Methodist Hospital is a 158-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Sacramento, California. Serving over 80,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II NICU, heart care, cancer care, women’s health, and neurology. Additionally, Methodist Hospital of Sacramento has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center.
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Pay Range
$92.22 - $92.22 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 58,731 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$92.22/hr
- California median$54–75/hr1,537 hourly ranges
- US median$38–54/hr24,525 hourly ranges
This rate, $92.22/hr, is 44% above the California median midpoint ($64/hr) — in the top quarter of Registered Nurse hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,398 open Registered Nurse jobs in California and 58,731 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Kaiser Permanente300 open
- Health Advocates Network209 open
- Sutter Health174 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Registered Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (28,535 postings).
- Education
- 4,594 of the 58,731 open Registered Nurse jobs (8%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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