Overview

About Us

Dominican Hospital (a member of Dignity Health) is a 222-bed facility that offers a wide range of services to residents of California’s Central Coast. With 24/7 emergency care, comprehensive care in cardiac, orthopedics, oncology, women’s and children’s services, we continue to lead the region in medical innovation and excellence in healthcare.

Comprehensive Care

Dominican offers emergency services and is a Certified Stroke Center and Chest Pain Center. Dominican’s services include the only comprehensive Cancer Center in Santa Cruz County, a Total Joint Replacement program, and advanced neurological and endoscopic services. Dominican regularly receives ‘A’ grades for hospital safety from Leapfrog Group, and has received national recognition for superior patient safety, cardiac care, and stroke treatment from Healthgrades, a leading provider of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.

As Santa Cruz County’s heart attack (STEMI) receiving center, Dominican Hospital provides cutting edge cardiac care. The hospital’s heart attack treatment times consistently beat the national average, and the hospital offers two cardiac catheterization labs available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Groundbreaking cardiac procedures at Dominican include the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure, which allows for heart valve replacement without opening a patient’s chest.

Dominican Hospital has forged significant partnerships with area hospitals to bring exceptional care to Santa Cruz County. The hospital offers a level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) through a partnership with Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Neurosurgery at Dominican is also offered through a partnership with Stanford Health Care.

In The Community

Beyond care inside the hospital, Dominican is dedicated to the health and wellness of the Santa Cruz community.

Community programs include a Mobile Wellness Clinic, a tattoo removal program, and support groups for patients and new mothers. In addition, and in accordance with our mission, Dominican Hospital supports programs for the underserved in our community, including children and adults, students, seniors, and the homeless population. Dominican also has received several awards for environmental excellence.

Schedule: 1.0 FTE during residency

Responsibilities

Schedule: 1.0 FTE during residency

A CommonSpirit Health Nurse Resident is a new graduate direct clinical care registered nurse (RN) who continues to develop nursing knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors introduced in formal education as they transition into practice. They are expected to demonstrate the appropriate competency in both core and functional areas, listed below.

Progression is expected in the areas of leading through mission vision and values, patient/customer focus, taking ownership, health care knowledge, teamwork, clinical performance improvement, service excellence, decision making and critical thinking, and patient safety.

ESSENTIAL KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Evidence-based Practice (EBP) and Patient Care: Builds skills to utilize current evidence based practice
knowledge, the nursing process, critical thinking and problem solving skills to provide holistic care to individuals across the lifespan and care continuum.
Interprofessional Collaboration and Communication: Learns to collaborate and communicate with the
interprofessional team to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and the achievement of desired patient outcomes.
Leadership: Develops accountability for own practice, delegated care, and the coordination of care delivery.
Behaves in a manner that supports colleagues, and maintains respect, trust and dignity.
Professionalism: Acquires and maintains knowledge in nursing practice and assumes responsibility for the professional development of self.
Attainment of Core Competencies:
a. Taking Ownership: Has a basic understanding and knowledge of the current situation or issue at hand;
ability to take full personal responsibility or ownership for assignments, activities, decisions and results.
Teamwork: Basic understanding and knowledge of the necessity and value of teamwork; participates
effectively as part of a team.
Patient / Customer Focus: Basic understanding ensuring that the patient/customer perspective is a
driving force behind our actions and business decisions; crafting and implementing service practices that
meet patients'/customers’ and own organization’s needs. (Focus also includes internal and external
customers.)
Leading through Mission, Vision and Values: Basic understanding keeping the organization’s mission,
vision and values at the forefront of associate decision making and action.
Effective communication: Basic understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and
techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and
needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Patient Safety: Basic understanding and knowledge of the risks faced by patients in a healthcare
environment, and the ability to take steps to reduce these risks.
Clinical Performance Improvement: Basic understanding and knowledge of the factors contributing to quality patient care, and the ability to influence these factors in a positive way.
Continuous Learning: Basic understanding of the rationale behind the necessity to continually learn and grow and the ability to seek performance feedback and identify approaches to improve one's own performance and that of others.
Followership: Basic understanding of and ability to carry out strategies and tasks that support the
mission and goals of the leader and the organization.
S ervice Excellence: Basic understanding and knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.
Healthcare Knowledge: Basic understanding and knowledge of the operating principles, major issues,
governmental regulations, and code of ethics for the healthcare industry; ability to apply this
understanding appropriately to healthcare related situations.
Nursing Assessment and Care: Basic understanding of and ability to assess ailments and injuries of
patients and implement a treatment plan.
Decision-Making and Critical Thinking: Basic understanding and knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Clinical Skills: Basic understanding of and ability to provide clinical skills necessary for patient care, e.g.
history taking, therapeutic planning and monitoring, etc., to achieve optimized outcomes in medication
therapy and clinical treatment.

Schedule: 1.0 FTE during residency

Qualifications

Schedule: 1.0 FTE during residency

Required Education and Experience:

Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing with a
minimum of an Associate’s Degree in Nursing
required
0-12 months of professional nursing (RN) experience

Preferred:

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN)
preferred

Required Licensure and Certifications:

Active License as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the State in which s/he will be practicing or the state of primary residency if the state is a Nurse Licensure Compact state.
BLS certification - American Heart Association
Additional certifications may be required based on
population(s) served and services provided

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Training:

Ability to deliver excellence in patient care through assessing,
formulating nursing diagnoses and establishing
goals, planning and implementing intervention,
and evaluating patient care outcomes.
Read, analyze, and interpret hospital policies and
procedures, professional journals, technical
procedures, or governmental regulations.
Write reports and procedures, and document in the
medical record.
Effectively present information and respond to
questions from co-workers, managers,
patients, physicians, family members and the general public.
Calculate figures and amounts such as
weights, dosages, flow rates, proportions,
percentages and volume.
Apply concepts such as fractions, percentages,
ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
Define problems, collect data, establish facts, and
draw valid conclusions.
Interpret an extensive variety of technical
instructions in mathematical or diagram form
and deal with several abstract and concrete
variables.
Critically think and problem solve.
Read, write and speak English.
Must be able to complete entire program with a perfect attendance record
Must be able to work 3 days per week after completing first 12 weeks
Must be able to work and train on either night or day shifts including holidays
Must agree to terms and conditions of the program