Job Summary and ResponsibilitiesAs a
NICU Transition In Practice 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.
- Assessment: Performs total body and system assessment each shift/visit according to unit standards.
- Care of Patient: Including planning, implementing, evaluating and educating.
- Clinical/Technical Skills: Utilizes technology, procedures, protocols, standards and interventions specific to assigned unit.
- Documentation: Performs legible, timely, concise and accurate documentation according to policies and procedures. Proficient and competent with the computerized documentation system.
- Leadership: Accepts responsibility and accountability for own decisions and behaviors. Recognizes, accepts and cooperates with direction from facility leadership.
- Precepting/Mentoring: Participates in orientation of new staff, ancillary personnel and mentors students in a constructive and positive manner. Serves as resource to staff from other nursing departments.
Job RequirementsRequired- Minimum one (1) year of acute care RN experience OR one (1) year of critical care RN experience
- Active Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of California
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification - American Heart Association
- NRP certification within six (6) months of transfer
- Meets Expectations or above on most recent annual (2025) performance evaluation
- Preference given to home facility RNs and Float Pool RNs
Other program details- Interview and final selection by 9/7/26
- Transfer into NICU Transition in Practice program on Sunday, 10/11/26
- Attend classes at the Dignity Health Collaborative Learning Center combined with shifts on the unit with assigned preceptor
- Train for 24 weeks on Day shift
- Scheduled training hours primarily on days until the completion of the training program, then assigned to Full-Time RN Night shift position on the training unit and begin typical unit orientation
- Expected to commit to remaining a Dignity Health employee for at least one (1) year following the completion of the training program
- 100% attendance is expected during the 24-week training program from 10/11/26 - 3/28/27
Where You'll WorkFounded in 1967, Dignity Health - Mercy San Juan Medical Center is a 377-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Carmichael, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, cancer care, women's health, and neurology. Additionally, Mercy San Juan Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Comprehensive Stroke Center, the highest level of stroke care certification awarded by The Joint Commission.
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