CommonSpirit Health

RN Post Anesthesia Care Unit

CommonSpirit Health$80K — $120K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6 months acute care RN experience in same unit required
  • Current and active California Registered Nurse license
  • AHA Basic Life Support certification
  • AHA Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification
  • AHA Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification
  • Preferred: BSN upon hire

Responsibilities

  • Provide effective, evidence-based nursing care for desired health outcomes
  • Organize and prioritize patient care activities according to individual needs
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams for holistic care planning
  • Apply current nursing practice standards and regulations
  • Advocate for patients and address ethical practices
  • Complete comprehensive patient assessments and identify specific needs
  • Reassess patients to ensure effective care interventions

Benefits

  • Opportunity for ongoing education and professional development
  • Mentoring and precepting activities to develop others
  • Dynamic and collaborative work environment focused on patient outcomes
  • Work in a recognized high-performing LGBTQ+ healthcare facility
  • Access to advanced healthcare technology and specialized services
  • Contribute to a mission-driven organization with a long history
Full Job Description
Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our 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 thrive in this vital 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.

 

Provides effective,comprehensive evidence based nursing care to achieve desired health outcomes. Organizes and prioritizes patient care activities balanced with the needs and comfort of the patient. Collaborates with other disciplines to insure comprehensive, holistic and effective plan of care. Applies knowledge of current practice standards, guidelines, statutes, rules and regulations. Demonstrates accountability for own ethical behavior and supports ethical practice by addressing or escalating issues. Serves as a patient advocate.

  • Completes patient assessments competently. Assesses for and identifies needs of unit-specific patient population: Assesses for and identifies any physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, educational, discharge and cultural needs.
  • Completes an individualized plan of care based on assessment of the patient. Coordinates with other disciplines when indicated. Prioritizes care needs and sets measurable goals and time frames. Includes patient and family in the planning.
  • Implements interventions based on nursing and medical plan of care. Manages patient population, diagnosis and age specific needs through appropriate adaptation of interventions. Appropriately utilizes equipment and supplies (including following established policies, procedures and protocols governing the transport, handling and storage of intravenous fluids).
  • After implementation, reassesses the patient to verify effectiveness of interventions. Updates the plan of care to reflect current care needs.Demonstrates the ability to recognize and adapt to changes in patients condition (i.e.. LOC change, vital signs, test results)in a timely and clinically appropriate manner.
  • Uses SBAR to notify physicians and other providers of clinical findings. Follow policies and procedures for contacting physician regarding critical values. Uses appropriate resources and follows chain of command. Recognizes limits of scope of practice.
  • Assesses situations and seeks critical information to make decisions. Implements solutions while reviewing and monitoring effects. Re-evaluates decisions and makes corrective actions when indicated.
  • Recognizes changes in the stability of a patients condition and provides appropriate interventions. Uses information from multiple sources to collaborate, negotiate, coordinate, delegate and evaluate care delivery.
  • Participates in ongoing education. Participates in the development of others through mentoring and precepting activities. Uses negotiation and conflict management strategies.

 

 

We are not currently accepting new graduate or new to speciality applications.   Our next posting period will be July 1, 2026 for an October 16, 2026 start date.  Positions can be found under National Resident RN (<12 months experience as an RN) or RN Transition/Fellowship (>12 months experience as an RN.

 

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Position is represented by CNA.

Job Requirements

Required

 

  • Requires minimum of 6 months minimum previous acute care RN experience in same unit.
  • Current and Active CA Registered
  • AHA Basic Life Support / Advanced Cardiac Life Support
  • AHA Pediatric Advanced Life Support

Preferred

  • Bachelors Of Nursing BSN, upon hire
Where You27ll Work

Founded in 1926, Dignity Health - Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center is a 334-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital. Serving over 70,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level III NICU, heart care, wound care and surgical services. Additionally, Glendale Memorial Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center and a SRC Center of Excellence for Robotic Surgery and Colorectal Surgery.

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About CommonSpirit Health

CommonSpirit is a nonprofit health care center. They offer community health programs, research programs, virtual care services, and home health programs that address the root causes of poor health, such as access to care, affordable housing, neighborhoods, and a healthy environment.

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