Staff Nurse-Peds/PICU

Job Summary:

Provides nursing care and services to patients/families. Provides direction to licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistive personnel. Delegates nursing care according to legal and regulatory guidelines/statutes and organizational policies. Utilizes reasonable judgment in carrying out prescribed medical orders of a practitioner. Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver. Serves as resource nurse. Acts as preceptor and takes charge duties as assigned.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Practices professional nursing and delegates nursing tasks to nursing assistive personnel and provides direction to the LPN as appropriate.

• Utilizes nursing process to deliver care.

• Performs any nursing task requiring nursing knowledge, judgment, and skill and maintains organizational, departmental, and job-specific competencies in accordance with their departmental scope of service, discipline, specific scopes of practice and defined job descriptions.

• Administers medications. As appropriate, may administer intradermal local anesthetic for IV placement.

• Teaches LPNs and nursing assistive personnel special tasks of nursing care.

• Verifies staff competency to perform special tasks of nursing care as appropriate.

• Is responsible and accountable for quality of nursing rendered and adequacy of nursing care provided when special tasks are delegated to nursing assistive personnel.

• Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver.

• Serves as resource nurse and acts as preceptor.

• Takes charge duties as assigned.

• Incorporates the KP Vision, Model and Values through out their Nursing Practice.

• Performs administrative and other duties and accepts responsibility as assigned.

• May perform patient care to the extent necessary to maintain clinical expertise, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care on the unit.

Basic Qualifications:

Experience

• Minimum of one (1) year of experience in area of specialty or completion of formal course in area of specialty within established time frame.

Education

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.

License, Certification, Registration

• Registered Nurse License (Hawaii) required at hire

• Basic Life Support from American Heart Association

• Pediatric Advanced Life Support within 12 months of hire from American Heart Association

Additional Requirements:

• Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in adaptability, change management, decision making, detail oriented, customer service, influence, interpersonal relations, oral communication, prioritization, problem solving, quality management, results orientation, system thinking, teamwork, time management, written communication competencies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with electronic medical records.

• Coursework in basic EKG.

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: Staff Nurse-Peds/PICU

LOCATION: Honolulu, Hawaii

REQNUMBER: 1452314

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.