Job Summary and ResponsibilitiesAs our Registered Nurse (RN) on our
30-bed Cardiac Telemetry unit, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Our unit, featuring all private rooms, is meticulously designed to promote a quiet, calm atmosphere and a healing environment, supported by modern amenities like ceiling lifts, a pneumatic tube system, and state-of-the-art equipment.
Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care to a diverse cardiac population, including patients with arrhythmias, those undergoing pre/post cardiac intervention (including sheath removals), and pre/post-operative cardiac surgical patients. You'll make critical assessments, perform skilled procedures, and meticulously implement patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes, ensuring a smooth continuum of care from admission to discharge.
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 our fast-paced cardiac environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement within a unit committed to providing the highest standard of specialized cardiac care.
- 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 the 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 a resource to staff from other nursing departments.
Job RequirementsRequired:- One (1) year of experience as an RN within an acute care hospital.
- Active Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of California
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification - American Heart Association
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification - American Heart Association
Preferred:- Arrhythmia certification.
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.
