Job Description
This position is a Hawaii Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Bargaining Unit represented position.
Job Summary:
Provides nursing care and services to patients/families. Provides direction to licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistive personnel. Delegates nursing care according to legal and regulatory guidelines/statutes and organizational polices. Utilizes reasonable judgment in carrying out prescribed medical orders of a practitioner. Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver. Serves a resource nurse. Acts as preceptor and takes charge duties as assigned.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Practices professional nursing and delegates nursing tasks to nursing assistive personnel and provides direction to the LPN as appropriate. Utilizes nursing process to deliver care.
- Performs any nursing task requiring nursing knowledge, judgment, and skill and maintains organizational, departmental, and job-specific competencies in accordance with their departmental scope of service, discipline, specific scopes of practice and defined job descriptions.
- Administers medications. As appropriate, may administer intradermal local anesthetic for IV placement. Teaches LPNs and nursing assistive personnel special tasks of nursing Care.
- Verifies staff competency to perform special tasks of nursing care as appropriate. Is responsible and accountable for quality of nursing rendered and adequacy of nursing care provided when special tasks are delegated to nursing assistive personnel.
- Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver. Serves as resource nurse and acts as preceptor. Takes charge duties as assigned.
- Incorporates the KP Vision, Model and Values throughout their nursing practice.
- Performs administrative and other duties and accepts responsibility as assigned.
- May perform patient care to the extent necessary to maintain clinical expertise, competency, and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care on the unit.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
- Minimum of one (1) year of experience in area of specialty or completion of formal course in area of specialty within established timeframe.
Education
- Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
License, Certification, Registration
- Registered Nurse License (Hawaii)
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 12 months of hire from American Heart Association
- Basic Life Support from American Heart Association
Additional Requirements:
- Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in adaptability, change management, decision making, detail oriented, customer service, influence, interpersonal relations, oral communication, prioritization, problem solving, quality management, results orientation, system thinking, teamwork, time management, written communication competencies.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with electronic medical records.
- Coursework in basic EKG.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Honolulu, HI |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Salary | $50.74 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1945 |
| Website | http://www.kp.org/careers |
About Company
At Kaiser Permanente, we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence. Driven by our mission to provide the highest quality preventive medicine, we are committed to eliminating health care disparities, and to making lives better through innovation, technology, and research.
Our desire to deliver the best possible care inspires us to promote wellness among our members, communities, and each other. It also fuels our belief that everyone — regardless of circumstance — deserves access to affordable care, which further drives our motivation to expand our reach.
Founded nearly 80 years ago, our unique business model sets us apart — positioning us to drive improvements across the industry and around the world.
Skills
- Administrative Skillsunmatched
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)unmatched
- Anesthesiologyunmatched
- Basic Life Support (BLS)unmatched
- Change Managementunmatched
- Clinical Competencyunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Electrocardiogramunmatched
- Electronic Medical Recordsunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
- Intravenous Therapiesunmatched
- Licensed Practical Nurse/Licensed Vocational Nurseunmatched
- Licensingunmatched
- Medication Administrationunmatched
- Nursingunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- Prescription Drugsunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Registered Nurse (RN)unmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Training/Teachingunmatched
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