Location: Downey, California, United States

Position Type: Full-Time/Regular

Shift Hours: 7am to 7:30pm

Job Description

We’re a nonprofit, regional healthcare network with two hospitals, numerous outpatient medical offices, a multispecialty medical (physician) group, home healthcare services and hospice care, as well as heart, cancer and emergency services. Our leadership is dedicated to putting patients first—a cornerstone of our mission, vision and values—as we deliver top-quality healthcare.

From our extensive facilities in Whittier, California and Downey, California, PIH Health serves more than two million residents in Los Angeles and Orange Counties and throughout the San Gabriel Valley.

The Registered Nurse provides a full range of nursing practices guided by the American Nursing Association’s (ANA) Nursing Scope of Standards of Practice (2004) and dependent upon experience, role and population served.  Primary nursing responsibilities include assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation and evaluation.  Standards of professional performance required include quality practice, education/competency, professional practice evaluation, collegiality, collaboration, and ethics, research/best practice integration, resource utilization and leadership. (ANA 2004).

 Assists patients to attain or maintain optimal health, implementing a strategy of care to accomplish defined goals within the context of a patient-centered health care plan, and evaluating responses to nursing care and treatment (National Council of State Board of Nursing, 2004).

Required Skills

• Demonstrates fluency in English communication, to include reading, writing, and verbal communication
• Basic organizational skills to include ability to follow directions as outlined in policies or given by supervisor
• Basic EKG interpretation
• Knowledge of legal implications of nursing
• Demonstrates appropriate critical intervention skills
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred

Required Experience

• Valid California RN License
• A minimum of one (1) year of full-time acute care nusing experience preferably in an Emergency Department
• BSN/MSN preferred
• Current BLS and ACLS certifications through the American Heart Association
• Two (2) years of ED Nursing experience is highly desired
• PALS certification desired
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