Registered Nurse (RN) - Telemetry - $56-87 per hour

Tenet Desert is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Telemetry for a nursing job in Palm Springs, California.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Telemetry
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: Ongoing
• Employment Type: Staff

Up to $15,000 Sign-On bonus based on experience! 

Shift: Nights

Job type: Full Time

Hours:

The Clinical Nurse assumes principal responsibility for the total nursing care, assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation of each assigned patient. The staff nurse initiates teaching and educates the patient and family/or significant other to attain optimal health. Access to all Patient Health Information for treatment purposes only.

Department Specific Duties

• Maintain Chemotherapy Competency
• Obtains information and interpret information in terms of the patient’s needs.
• Demonstrates knowledge of growth and development.
• Understands the range of treatment needed as appropriate to the ages of the patients served.
• Maintains Annual competencies.
• Performs and documents accurate comprehensive and daily assessments per policy and standards for specific unit.
• Demonstrates knowledge associated with specific unit disease processes.
• Demonstrates knowledge of commonly used drugs for specific unit.
• Initiates, documents progressive patient, and family/significant teaching.
• Facilitates the discharge process ensuring all goals are addressed prior to discharge.
• Initiates interdisciplinary communications and incorporates recommendations.
• Works with other disciplines for complex discharge planning and early facilitation of discharge process.

Required:

• Current CA Registered Nurse License
• Associate Degree in Nursing ADN (G70AH / G70AK) or
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing BSN (G70AZ / G70AD)
• Current American Heart Association BLS certification and ACLS certification (maintain current at all times)
• Effective verbal and written skills to communicate with people on all levels and able to maintain positive working relationships with parents, families, and co-workers
• Possess active listening skills
• Compassionate and non judgmental care giver and advocate
• Able to independently manage multiple priorities
• Must comply with Respiratory Fit Testing Protection Policy
• Must successfully complete EKG test within (60) sixty days of hire/ transfer

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Tenet Desert Job ID #2603019222. Posted job title: Registered Nurse (RN) - Telemetry

Benefits

• Sign-On bonus