RN Surgical ICU
Stockton, CAJob$66.31–86.01/hrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The RN Surgical ICU provides comprehensive nursing care and supports patient-centered care initiatives. The nurse assesses patient and family health needs, develops, implements, and evaluates nursing care plans, and provides technical nursing care across age groups from neonatal to geriatric. The role also includes patient advocacy, quality improvement, and adherence to clinical and organizational practices.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Nurse, you will be a compassionate and pivotal healthcare professional, delivering comprehensive nursing care and leading patient-centered care initiatives.
Every day, you will expertly assess patient/family health needs, leading the development, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care plans, and providing technical nursing care to diverse age populations (neonatal to geriatric) with developmental understanding. You'll actively uphold our Organization's Mission, Core Values, and support strategic and Performance Improvement plans.
To be successful in this role, you will possess strong clinical assessment, critical thinking, leadership, and communication skills, with an unwavering commitment to patient advocacy and continuous quality improvement.
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Allows for privacy and modesty in the provision of care.
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Identifies self by name and title to patient/family.
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Determines presence/type of Advanced Directive.
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Reports suspected cases of abuse/neglect, if identified.
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Understands role of, and how to access, the Bioethics Committee.
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Establishes presence of consent prior to treatment/procedures.
$5,000 Sign on for eligible new hires with at least 1 year of relevant experience within the last 3-5 years.
Job Requirements
Required
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Graduate of an RN School of Nursing
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One (1) year of recent telemetry acute care experience
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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
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Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification - American Heart Association
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Critical RN Adult/Neonatal/Pediatric/Acute
Preferred
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Bachelors Other in health related field
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One year critical acute care experience
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Critical RN Adult/Neonatal/Pediatric/Acute
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1899, Dignity Health - St. Joseph’s Medical Center is a 355-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Stockton, California. Serving over 125,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level III NICU, cancer care, heart care, and a family birth center. Additionally, St. Joseph’s Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center and was named one of America’s 250 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.
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Pay Range
$66.31 - $86.01 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 59,203 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$66.31–86.01/hr
- California median$54–75/hr1,531 hourly ranges
- US median$38–54/hr25,131 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $76.16/hr, is 20% above the California median midpoint ($64/hr) — in the middle half of Registered Nurse hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,395 open Registered Nurse jobs in California and 59,203 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Kaiser Permanente286 open
- Health Advocates Network219 open
- Sutter Health166 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 (29,125 postings).
- Education
- 4,191 of the 59,203 open Registered Nurse jobs (7%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 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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