Registered Nurse (RN) - ICU - Intensive Care Unit

Job Description\n\n Adventist Health is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a nursing job in Bakersfield, California.Job Description & Requirements\n \n Specialty: ICU - Intensive Care Unit\n Discipline: RN\n Start Date: ASAP\n Duration: Ongoing\n Employment Type: Staff\n \n \n Formerly known as Bakersfield Heart Hospital since 1999, Adventist Health Specialty Bakersfield is building upon a legacy of exceptional heart care and expanding our ability to better serve Kern County for decades to come. We are comprised of a 47-bed hospital with three operating rooms, four cardiac catheterization labs and offer a range of specialty services to the community. As one of America's fastest growing cities, Bakersfield offers affordable housing on the West Coast, beautiful weather, high-quality education and it is just a few hours away from Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks, the Central California Coast and Southern California's great sports, theaters, concerts and amusement parks.\n Job Summary:\n Delivers coordinated nursing care for a patient or an assigned group of patients according to established standards of care and the nursing process. Supervises and directs the activities of various levels of assigned nursing staff, and coordinates care with other disciplines while utilizing critical thinking, professional and supervisory discretion, and independent judgment.\n Job Requirements:\n Education and Work Experience:\n \n Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN): Preferred\n Acute care facility experience: Preferred\n \n Licenses/Certifications:\n \n Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice: Required\n Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification or Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from approved vendor per AH policy: Required\n \n Facility Specific License/Certifications:\n \n Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from approved vendor per AH policy: Required\n AHA-ACLS or ARC-ALS: Required\n \n Essential Functions:\n \n Collects relevant data pertinent to the patient’s health or situation. Analyzes the assessment data in determining diagnosis and care issues. Develops a plan that prescribes interventions to attain outcomes. Implements the plan, coordinates care delivery, and employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment. Evaluates progress toward attaining outcomes. Identifies outcomes for the patient or the patient’s situation.\n Collaborates with the team of patient, family, and healthcare providers in providing patient care in a safe, healing, humane, and caring environment. Provides learning opportunities for patients/family members and team members. Directly provides health information to patients, families, and treatment team.\n Participates in discharge planning in order to provide continuity of care.\n Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of healthcare team members.\n Performs other job-related duties as assigned.\n \n Organizational Requirements:\n Adventist Health is committed to the safety and wellbeing of our associates and patients. Therefore, we require that all associates receive all required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter, where applicable. Medical and religious exemptions may apply.\n Adventist Health participates in E-Verify. Visit for more information about E-Verify. By choosing to apply, you acknowledge that you have accessed and read the E-Verify Participation and Right to Work notices and understand the contents therein.\n \n Adventist Health Job ID #69653. Posted job title: rn, medical icu - specialty bakersfield (full-time, day shift)About Adventist Health\n \n Adventist Health is a faith-based, nonprofit, integrated health system serving more than 80 communities on the West Coast and Hawaii with over 400 sites of care, including 26 acute care facilities. Founded on Adventist heritage and values, Adventist Health provides care in hospitals, clinics, home care, and hospice agencies in both rural and urban communities. Our compassionate and talented team of 37,000 includes employees, physicians, allied health professionals and volunteers driven in pursuit of one mission: living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness, and hope. We are committed to staying true to our heritage by providing patient-centered, quality care. Together, we are transforming the healthcare experience with an innovative and whole-person focus on physical, mental, spiritual and social healing to support community well-being.\n Benefits\n \n Continuing Education\n Bereavement\n Medical benefits\n Dental benefits\n Vision benefits\n Health Care FSA\n 403b retirement plan\n Employee assistance programs\n Life insurance\n Holiday Pay\n 401k retirement plan\n Sick pay\n Health savings account\n \n\n