RN

Founded in 1873, Dignity Health - Mercy Medical Center is a 186-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Merced, California. Serving over 150,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II NICU, heart care, the Mercy Cancer Center, and a family birth center. Additionally, Merced Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Position Summary

The registered nurse is responsible to take primary responsibility to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care of each assigned patient. Provide direct patient care. Supervise the activities of nursing staff members. Anticipate patients' needs. Follow-up on all care related activities and assure all physician orders are accurately transcribed and carried out in a timely manner. Coordinate the plan of care. Conduct patient teaching specific to disease entity and home management. Actively participate in assuring care continuum. Collaborate with other nursing and ancillary services to assure seamless communication and uninterrupted patient care. Model leadership behaviors. Foster a spirit of collaboration and teamwork. Mentor peers and colleagues

Required

• ICU and/or Telemetry Experience. and
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support (BLS) - CPR, upon hire and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), upon hire
• NIHSS (NIH Stroke Scale/Score)
• RN Residents must obtain the following certifications (ACLS* and NIHSS) at the end of the month following 10 weeks of hire.  Residents will be allotted a maximum of two opportunities to pass the initial online portion of Heart Code ACLS and the initial Heart Code ACLS Mega Code skills.  Failure to meet these requirments will result in dismissal from the resident program.
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Preferred

• Bachelors Degree

Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire.  This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements.

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