Registered Nurse - Full Time - Cardiac Cath Lab (Interventional Radiology) - Shift

Registered Nurse - Full Time - Cardiac Cath Lab

Kern Medical has been a community cornerstone since its founding in 1867. Today, we are an acute care teaching center with 222 beds, offering the only advanced trauma care between Fresno and Los Angeles. Kern Medical offers comprehensive, state-of-the-art women's health services delivered by board-certified physicians specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. No matter what your needs are, our OB/GYN specialists can help. Our UCLA-affiliated program is unique to the region and is focused on women of all ages. Kern Medical cares for 15,500 inpatients and 125,000 clinic patients a year.

Under the supervision of a nurse leader, independently prescribes, delegates, and coordinates nursing care to the acutely ill patient and performs the nursing process through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of safe, therapeutic care for patients. The scope of practice is in accordance with the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice, ANA Code of Ethics, and California Nurse Practice Act Board of Registered Nurses of the State of California.

This classification ranges from novice nurses with limited knowledge and skills to expert nurses with advanced knowledge and skills and the ability to perform work with minimum supervision. It is designed to accommodate the expanding experience of the Registered Nurse (RN), resulting in the ability to orient nurses with limited experience and re-entry nurses to current clinical practice. The HSN is expected to be committed to enhancing the profession of nursing, actively seek to improve their professional practice, contribute to the professional development of others, demonstrate caring-healing practices and promote the vision and goals of the organization and Department of Nursing. All nursing clinical practice will be evaluated and governed by the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and/or their RN designee.

Essential functions include creating and sustaining an environment that supports compassionate caring through authentic presence with the patient and family, building trusting relationships, and creating connections that embrace mind, body, and spirit modalities to mobilize the patient's strengths and abilities toward healing. Other functions include performing other job-related duties as assigned, training staff members, orienting new staff, and serving as a mentor to staff as an experienced clinician and manager of care.

Employment standards require graduation from an accredited registered nursing program with a Bachelor's or Associate's degree preferred and a valid and unrestricted license issued by the State of California to practice as a Registered Nurse; or possession of an active temporary license issued by the State of California to practice as a Registered Nurse. Employees must maintain all health requirements designated by Kern Medical Center. Possess and maintain a current American Heart Association Healthcare Provider Basic Life Support (BLS) card. Depending on assignment, incumbents may be required to possess and maintain specific certificates of competency or complete designated education as a condition of employment.