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
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.
- Assesses patients scheduled for complicated diagnostic cardiac catheterization and identifies and provides for individual patient care needs
- Completes post-procedure assessment per departmental standards and develops and monitors a nursing diagnosis plan of care and patient expected outcome that include nursing intervention during the pre-procedure phase
- Assists with the scheduling of procedures coordinating with the schedulers in surgery and imaging, and is responsible for the coordination and scheduling of procedures, coordination and monitoring of the diagnostic procedure, and properly administers appropriate interventions as directed
- Evaluates nursing care given and provides for ancillary services when indicated and revises and monitors patient care plan based on an evaluation of the effectiveness of the diagnostic surgical intervention
- Initiates teaching plan for post-procedure care and documents verbal instructions.
- Provides clinical coordination and direction in a charge nurse role and direction to other members of the nursing team to ensure that patient care is administered in a thorough, safe and knowledgeable manner
- Collaborates and communicates with other hospital departments to enhance data collection, nursing interventions, evaluation of care and participates in unit based Quality Assurance activities
10% sign on bonus for quaified external candidates
Job Requirements
Required
- One (1) year experience as a Registered Nurse in catheterization laboratory nursing area or one (1) year of critical care experience if staffing permits
- Must possess and maintain a current Registered Nurse (RN) license with the state of California
- Must possess and maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) certificate
- Must possess and maintain a current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certificate
Preferred
- EKG Interpretation Class
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.
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