RN

Requisition ID
2025-444441
Department
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Hours / Pay Period
80
Shift
Day
Standard Hours
Monday - Friday (8:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
Location
CA-MERCED
Posted Pay Range
$58.19 - $76.56 /hour
Telecommute
No

Where You’ll Work

Mercy Medical Center, a Dignity Health member, has been building a rich history of care in our community for more than 100 years. We have grown from a small one-story wooden structure into a major healthcare provider with a new 186-bed main campus, offering the latest in facility design and technology. Mercy also operates Outpatient Centers, a Cancer Center and several rural clinics.

Wherever you work throughout our system, you will find faces of experience with dedication to high quality, personalized care. Joining our 1,300 employees, 230 physicians and many volunteers, you can help carry out our commitment to providing our community with the excellence they have come to associate with Mercy Medical Center.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a 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.

 

Under the general direction of and upon physician referral, to provide and maintain quality patient care to a select group of patients by utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation and evaluation. Contribute to the safety and maintenance of current standards of cardiac rehabilitation practice, which include attention to appropriate patient selection, concurrent medical therapy, patient education, careful prescription of exercise intensity and electrocardiographic monitoring to ensure an optimal arena for lifestyle changes.

 

Essential Functions:

  • Competently performs and charts a nursing assessment on each patient, based on patient's past history, current physical finding and age group, to include adult and geriatric. Plans care of a group of patients based upon nursing assessment and pertinent medical information form the referring physician. Based upon the clinical response of the patient relative to the treatment plan, complete progress and discharge documentation accurately and in a timely manner, using professional terminology.
  • Monitors process, provides patient/family education with a variety of planned learning experiences that facilitate changes in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors with the goal of prevention, maintenance and/or improved status. Documents in the patient record patient and family needs, ability and readiness to learn.
  • Adheres to professional and ethical standards of the nursing profession. Identifies normal and abnormal pathophysiology and recognizes abnormal physiological responses and cardiac rhythms. Identifies the patient's educational, psychosocial and physical needs in order to establish priorities for the patients in accordance with their age, disorder and ethnic background.
  • Develop a comprehensive plan of care with the patient and family to meet the changing needs using the assessment database of cardiac risk factors and nursing diagnosis/problems. Plan and/or coordinates education for inpatient and/or outpatient and family education.
  • Acts as a liaison between the attending physician and team members to insure the patient and support persons are receiving all team services offered by the Cardiac Rehabilitation department including exercise programs, education and wellness programs and treadmill testing services. Follows departmental protocols and physician orders in identifying and evaluation patient needs based on information received according to the prescribed medical/exercise regimen. Assists physicians with special procedures as instructed.
  • Assesses nursing care needs of patients and abilities of available ancillary health care personnel. Provides clinical coordination and direction in a charge nurse role. Provides direction to other members of the nursing team to ensure that patient care is administered in a thorough, safe and knowledgeable manner.

Job Requirements

 Minimum:

  • Must possess and maintain a current Registered Nurse license with the state of California
  • Must possess and maintain a current Basic Life Support (BLS) - we accept the American Heart Association
  • Must possess and maintain a current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) - we accept the American Heart Association
  • Demonstrated clinical competency in a manner approved by the California Society for Cardiac Rehabilitation

Preferred:

  • Knowledge in cardiovascular clinical nursing

  • Knowledge of twelve-lead electrocardiogram and/or monitor and telemetry monitoring equipment.

     

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