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At CommonSpirit Health, we believe in the healing power of humanity. We invite you to explore our specialty areas and pursue a career in humankindness.

Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation's largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 158 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings.

As CommonSpirit Health, we make the healing presence of God known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all. To learn more about a calling that defines and unites, please click here for more information about our mission, vision, and values.

The posted compensation range of $60.22 - $79.24 /hour is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay CommonSpirit in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting. CommonSpirit may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law.

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Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a 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.

• Nurses respect patients' religious, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds, use interpreter services when needed, and follow EMTALA/COBRA and Advance Directive policies, with compliance verified through chart audits and absence of valid complaints
• Nurses perform comprehensive, age-appropriate patient assessments from infant to geriatric and develop individualized nursing care plans in collaboration with the healthcare team, documented within specified timeframes 95% of the time
• Nurses carry out nursing interventions, hourly rounding, and OB-specific protocols such as labor monitoring, delivery, and neonatal stabilization, while communicating findings promptly to physicians and other team members
• Nursing goals and interventions are regularly reassessed and updated each shift, with accurate, complete documentation across admission, discharge, and flow sheets
• Staff provide age- and language-appropriate education, complete medication reconciliation and discharge instructions, and ensure smooth handoff communication and referrals to services like Social Services and Public Health across care transitions
• Nurses demonstrate effective team collaboration, conflict resolution, and workload management, alongside verified proficiency in department-specific equipment like fetal monitors and IV pumps and procedures like neonatal resuscitation and OB emergency response

Job Requirements

Required

• Registered Nurse: CA
• Experienced Registered Nurse:Greater than one (1) year of recent experience in Labor and Delivery
• Basic Life Support (BLS) - CPR
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) - CPR within six (6) months
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program, within six (6) months
• Must achieve or maintain a current National Certification Corporation (NCC) certificate in Electronic Fetal Monitoring OR, Association of Women's Health Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Certification:
• Experienced RNs with greater than one (1) year of labor and delivery experience will have six (6) months from hire to obtain certification. New Grad or RN with no prior L&D experience will have twenty-four (24) months to complete orientation and certification (if L&D orientation is completed sooner, then the certification will need to be completed accordingly). Should orientation need to be extended, the nurse will be granted additional time accordingly to obtain certification which will be communicated by leadership and / or educator.
• Staff hired originally into the cost center 638000-Obstetrics Acute by May 1, 2021 are not required to obtain or maintain electronic fetal monitoring certification unless they are cross-trained to 740000Labor and Delivery.
• Staff hired after May 1, 2021 must complete Postpartum and Labor and Delivery cross training within twenty-four (24) months from date of hire.

Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire. This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements.

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1873, Dignity Health - Mercy Medical Center is a 186-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Merced, California. Serving over 150,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II NICU, heart care, the Mercy Cancer Center, and a family birth center. Additionally, Merced Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center.

One Community. One Mission. One California

Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.

Nursing excellence starts with you.

Are you a career fit with our CommonSpirit Health culture? To understand how we are structured, we believe in some core philosophies with the following:

We will be stronger together, achieving excellence in all we do, collaborating across the fields and growing our collective knowledge

We will let humankindness guide us as we treat every person with holistic, personalized care for the body, mind and spirit.

We will advance the science and art of nursing as innovative leaders who demonstrate the power of evidence-based, compassionate care. If you believe in working together with humankindness for all to advance the science and art of nursing - then you have found your career fit with us!

"Our hope is that you will always feel inspired, knowing you truly are the heart and soul of CommonSpirit."

– Kathleen D. Sanford, EVP, Chief Nursing Officer

Success Profile

• Collaborative
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• Efficient
• Good Listener
• Organized
• Problem-Solver

Your Potential Career Path

This is a snapshot of your potential career path highlights the series of job positions that help you progress towards your goals and objectives. Ultimately, your career path depends on your career values and personal goals.

While you're busy impacting the healthcare industry, we'll take care of you with benefits that may include health/dental/vision, FSA, matching retirement plans, paid time off, tuition assistance, adoption assistance, and more!

Our Total Reward offerings

At CommonSpirit Health, we believe investing in our employees lets them know they truly matter. Your Total Rewards package includes compensation, benefits, retirement, wellness, leave, and other programs.

Depending on the position offered, CommonSpirit Health offers a generous benefit package, including but not limited to medical, prescription drug, dental, vision plans, life insurance, paid time off (full-time benefit eligible employees may receive a minimum of 14 paid time off days, including holidays annually), tuition reimbursement, retirement plan benefit(s) including, but not limited to, 401(k), 403(b), and other defined benefits offerings, as may be amended from time to time.

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