RN Trauma ICU

• Assumes responsibility and accountability for a patient assignment through therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, and other health care team members
• Appropriately assists team members in providing holistic care to patients and their support systems with an awareness of cost containment and time management
• Delivers compassionate, high-quality care
• Provides individualized, comprehensive care
• Makes critical assessments
• Performs skilled procedures
• Implements patient care plans
• Collaborates seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team
• Performs routine physical/psychosocial assessment to collect basic data
• Follows the written plan of care, standards, practice guidelines, utilizes pathways
• Notifies physicians as appropriate
• Formulates a plan of care for individual needs, including patient population needs
• Participates in the planning of routine transitional health care needs
• Adapts planned educational programs and information to individual patients and family
• Integrates education during the delivery of patient care
• Communicates patient's plan of care and significant changes to all members of the interdisciplinary team, patient, family and significant others
• Makes independent clinical decisions
• Actively advocates for patient rights and identifies potential conflict

• 1 year recent open heart OR critical care experience
• May consider training with one year of Telemetry or Step Down experience, if operational conditions exist
• Training positions require completion of basic critical care and dysrhythmia classes
• Associate degree in Nursing from an accredited school of nursing
• Verbal and written communication skills and computer skills
• Current California Registered Nurse license
• Current BLS, ACLS required (must be certified through the American Heart Association)
• PALS must be obtained within 12 months of hire into the position

12-lead EKG and shock class completion preferred

• health/dental/vision
• FSA
• matching retirement plans
• paid time off
• tuition assistance
• adoption assistance