RN Resident Program Med Surg Telemetry

Founded in 1925, Dignity Health - Mercy General Hospital is a 310-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Sacramento, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, cancer care, women’s health, and neurology. Additionally, Mercy General Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

As our National Resident RN, you will experience a dynamic and supportive residency, receiving personalized attention to foster long-term success and cross-training across our interconnected Nursing units.

Every day you will deliver individualized patient care by collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary teams, administering treatments, monitoring vital signs, and educating patients and families, all while embracing varied nursing tasks.

To be successful in this role, you will actively engage in our comprehensive, evidence-based Residency Program, utilizing clinical orientation, practice, and mentorship. You will demonstrate a passion for learning and teamwork within a collaborative, patient-centered environment.

• Evidence-based Practice (EBP) and Patient Care: Builds skills to utilize current evidence based practice knowledge, the nursing process, critical thinking and problem solving skills to provide holistic care to individuals across the lifespan and care continuum.
• Interprofessional Collaboration and Communication: Learns to collaborate and communicate with the interprofessional team to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and the achievement of desired patient outcomes.
• Leadership: Develops accountability for own practice, delegated care, and the coordination of care delivery. Behaves in a manner that supports colleagues, and maintains respect, trust and dignity.
• Professionalism: Acquires and maintains knowledge in nursing practice and assumes responsibility for the professional development of self.
• Attainment of Core Competencies: Taking Ownership: Has a basic understanding and knowledge of the current situation or issue at hand; ability to take full personal responsibility or ownership for assignments, activities, decisions and results.
  
  
  

Mercy General Hospital has seven (7) Med/Surg/Tele units which will hire into full time positions. 

These departments include: 

• Medical Telemetry

• Medical Acute (Neuro)
• Cardiac Intervention (CIU)
• Oncology
• Physical Rehab Acute
• Progressive Care (PCU)
• Surgical Acute (ASU)

19 vacancies

Required

• Graduate of an  accredited School of Nursing with a minimum of an Associate’s Degree in Nursing required;
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN) preferred 
• Zero (0) - twelve (12) months of professional nursing (RN) experience
• Active License as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the State in which s/he will be practicing or the state of primary residency if the state is a Nurse Licensure Compact state 
• Basic Life Support (BLS) through the American Heart Association (AHA)
• Additional certifications may be required based on population(s) served and services provided
• Ability to:
• Deliver excellence in patient care through assessing formulating nursing diagnoses and establishing goals planning and implementing intervention and evaluating patient care outcomes.
• Read, analyze and interpret hospital policies and procedures, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations. 
• Write reports and procedures and documents in the medical record.
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from co-workers, managers, patients, physicians, family members and the general public.
• Calculate figures and amounts such as weights dosages flow rates proportions percentages and volume. 
• Apply concepts such as fractions percentages ratios and proportions to practical situations.
• Define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. 
• Interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Critically think and problem solve. 
• Read, write and speak English.
• Must be able to complete entire program with a perfect attendance record
• Must be able to work three (3) days per week after completing first twelve (12) weeks
• Must be able to work and train on either night or day shifts including holidays
• Must agree to terms and conditions of the program

Start date: Monday Oct. 5th, 2026

To qualify, must have CA RN license by 08/17/2026