RN at Arbor Post Acute in Chico, California

Job Description:

Registered Nurse Job Requirements and Responsibilities:

• Restores and promotes patient's health by completing the nursing process.


• Collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members.


• Provides physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families.


• Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with patients and their families.


• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.


• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and hospital or regulatory standards.


• Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.


• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.


• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols; medication administration and storage procedures; and controlled substance regulations.


• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.


• Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.


• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.


• Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; calling for repairs; and evaluating new equipment and techniques.


• Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level.


• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and participating in professional societies.


• Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information and participating in team problem-solving methods.


• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

• Clinical skills


• Bedside manner


• Infection control


• Physiological knowledge


• Administering medication


• Medical teamwork


• Multitasking, listening, and verbal communication


• Health promotion and maintenance

• Registered Nurse (RN)


• Active applicable state licensure


• American Heart Association issued BLS and ACLS


• Clean background check and clean drug screen