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Job overview
The Staff RN provides individualized, comprehensive care to patients and families, including assessments, care planning, medication administration, pain management, and patient education. The role collaborates with an interdisciplinary team and adapts care to patients’ individual cultural, ethical, and spiritual needs. The position requires recent labor and delivery hospital experience, a California Registered Nurse license, Basic Life Support, and Neonatal Resuscitation Program certification.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Staff 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.
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Clinical Practice & Case Management- Provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum to include patient and family education.
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Performs psychosocial/physiologic assessments that integrate changing data.
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Formulates a plan of care based on trends of similar patients, including patient education and discharge planning. Collaborates with patients/families to identify realistic desired outcomes.
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Administers prescribed medications and intravenous solutions according to standards of care and hospital protocols.
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Assesses pain level in all patients using "0-10", "Faces", or other approved scale to promote comfort and enable patients to participate in their healing. Provides timely/appropriate assessment/intervention. Identifies comfort function goals with patients.
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Tailors and prioritizes caring practice to individual needs, including cultural/ethical/spiritual needs. Participates in the planning of routine transitional health care needs. (i.e. treatment options, patient placement options, end of life options). Adapts standards and guidelines for individual patients.
Job Requirements
Required:
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Associate Of Nursing Or nursing diploma Six months of recent L&D hospitalexperience, upon hire and
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Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and
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Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
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Neonatal Resuscitation Program, upon hire
Preferred:
- Bachelors Of Nursing, upon hire
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1941, Dignity Health - Dominican Hospital is a 188-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Cruz, California. Serving over 80,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, orthopedics, and a Family Birthing Center. Additionally, Dominican Hospital 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 has been awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care.
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Pay Range
$79.09 - $101.11 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 55,473 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$79.09–101.11/hr
- California median$53–74/hr1,451 hourly ranges
- US median$38–54/hr22,824 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $90.10/hr, is 44% above the California median midpoint ($63/hr) — in the top quarter of Registered Nurse hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,244 open Registered Nurse jobs in California and 55,473 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Kaiser Permanente271 open
- Health Advocates Network216 open
- Sutter Health156 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Registered Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 27,028 postings).
- Education
- 4,443 of the 55,473 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 28, 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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