RN

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.

• Ensures that the patient is properly introduced to the unit & his/her surroundings within one hour after arrival in unit.

• Completes assessment as reflected in nursing notes & admission history within 8 hours.

• Provides baseline data pertaining to activities of daily living.

• Reflects physiological condition & psychosocial needs of the patient. Reflects perceptions of patient and/or significant others of his/her health problem(s) & his/her expectations of the present hospitalization.

• Provides information needed to begin discharge planning.

• Utilizes standards of care to anticipate potential patient care problems.

Job Requirements

Required

• Graduate of an accredited RN program

• Registered Nurse: CA RN License

• Basic Life Support - CPR BLS

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support - ACLS, within 90 Days

Preferred

• One year acute care experience

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1946, Dignity Health - French Hospital Medical Center is a 112-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in San Luis Obispo, California. Serving over 150,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, orthopedics, and a family birthing center. Additionally, French 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 has achieved an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for every reporting period since 2012.

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Pay Range

$51.57 - $76.96 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.