Registered Nurse (RN) - Pediatrics Specialized Unit at Long Beach Memorial Medical Group in LONG BEACH, California

Job Description:

Title: Registered Nurse (RN)

Location: Miller Children's Hospital

Department: Pediatric Specialized Unit

Status: Full Time

Shift: Days (8 hours - 7:00 a to 3:30 pm)

Pay Range*: $53.18 - $73.57

At MemorialCare Health System, we believe in providing extraordinary healthcare to our communities and an exceptional working environment for our employees. Memorial Care stands for excellence in Healthcare. Across our family of medical centers, we support each one of our bright, talented employees in reaching the highest levels of professional development, contribution, collaboration and accountability. Whatever your role and whatever expertise you bring, we are dedicated to helping you achieve your full potential in an environment of respect, innovation and teamwork.

Position Summary

To provide safe, cost-effective patient care through the health experience, according to established standards utilizing the nursing process, within the scope of practice of Registered Nursing.

The RN, Registered Nurse 8-Hr provides safe, cost-effective patient care through the health experience, according to established standards utilizing the nursing process, within the scope of practice of Registered Nursing, for the Pediatric Procedure Room at MemorialCare Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach.

The Pediatric Procedure Room is part of the Pediatric Specialty Unit. The nurses in the Pediatric Procedure Room work with physicians who perform inpatient and outpatient procedures that require deep sedation. This includes endoscopies, colonoscopies, lumbar punctures, bone marrow aspirations, MRIs, nuclear med scans, radiation oncology, etc. The sedation nurses prepare their patients for the procedures, participate in the monitoring of patients during the procedures and transfer to PACU once procedure is complete.

These nurses are also trained to place Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICC) lines in patients in Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities of the Job

• Safety and risk management
• Assess patients
• Develops a written plan of care using assessment database
• Implements patient care
• Evaluates and revises patient care
• Staff development
• Collaboration and working with others
• Interpersonal relationships and communication
• Unit, department, and hospital contributions
• Performance appraisal
• Working responsibilities
• Customer services
• Skills Roster

*Placement in the pay range is based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, relevant years of experience and qualifications. In addition to base pay, there may be additional compensation available for this role, including but not limited to, shift differentials, extra shift incentives, and bonus opportunities. Health and wellness is our passion at MemorialCare-that includes taking good care of employees and their dependents. We offer high quality health insurance plan options, so you can select the best choice for your family. And there's more... Check out our MemorialCare Benefits for more information about our Benefits and Rewards. Minimum Requirements

Qualifications/Work Experience:

• The ideal candidate will have nursing experience in pediatrics and procedural services in an acute care hospital
• One-year minimum experience in pediatric and/or women's hospital preferred.
• Completion of pre-employment drug screening.
• Completion of pre-employment criminal background reference check.
• Completion of pre-employment health evaluation including TB screening and annual or bi-annual re-evaluation as indicated by Employee Health.
• One-year minimum experience in pediatric and/or women's hospital preferred.
• The RN must be able to comply with every other weekend work commitment as well as be available to work and be scheduled any day of the week.

Education/Licensure/Certification:

• BSN required unless waived by nurse executive council review.
• Graduated from an accredited nursing program unless otherwise approved by the Nursing Executive Council (NEC).*Approved accrediting bodies include: ACEN and CCNE others must be approved by NEC.
• California Registered Nursing (RN) License required
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS) Card required via American Heart Association
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Card required via American Heart Association