RN Telemetry

Job Summary and Responsibilities As our Registered Nurse (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 be successful in this 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. Provides effective, comprehensive evidence-based nursing care to achieve desired health outcomes. Organizes and prioritizes patient care activities balanced with the needs and comfort of the patient. Collaborates with other disciplines to ensure a comprehensive, holistic, and effective plan of care. Applies knowledge of current practice standards, guidelines, statutes, rules, and regulations. Demonstrates accountability for own ethical behavior and supports ethical practice by addressing or escalating issues. Serves as a patient advocate. ASSESSMENT: Completes patient assessments competently. Assesses for and identifies needs of unit-specific patient population: physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, educational, discharge and cultural needs. PLANNING: completes an individualized plan of care based on assessment of the patient. Coordinates with other disciplines when indicated. Prioritizes care needs and sets measurable goals and time frames. Includes patient and family in the planning. IMPLEMENTATION: Implements interventions based on nursing and medical plan of care. Manages patient population, diagnosis and age-specific needs through appropriate adaptation of interventions. Utilizes equipment and supplies in accordance with policies, procedures, and protocols governing transport, handling, and storage of intravenous fluids. EVALUATION: Reassesses the patient after implementation to verify effectiveness of interventions. Updates the plan of care to reflect current care needs. Demonstrates the ability to recognize and adapt to changes in patient condition (e.g., LOC changes, vital signs, test results) in a timely and clinically appropriate manner. Uses SBAR to notify physicians and other providers of clinical findings. Follows policies and procedures for contacting physicians regarding critical values. Uses appropriate resources and follows chain of command. Recognizes limits of scope of practice. Seeks multidisciplinary collaboration. Integrates and interprets multiple sources of data to make appropriate clinical decisions based on patient needs and desired outcomes. We are not currently accepting new graduate or new-to-specialty applications. Job Requirements Education must meet the requirements for California licensure 1 year acute care experience Registered Nurse: CA Basic Life Support - CPR Advanced Cardiac Life Support Fire Safety, within 90 Days Where You'll Work Founded in 1887, Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center is a 318-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in downtown Los Angeles, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, women’s health, and a family birth center. In 2025, we opened our new patient tower, Grand Tower, featuring a dramatically expanded Emergency Department and Family Birth Center that will increase patient comfort and privacy. Additionally, California Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and recently was awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care. California Hospital Medical Center shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health and CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care. One Community. One Mission. One California #J-18808-Ljbffr