Specialist Nurse Practice INF

Founded in 1956, Dignity Health - Memorial Hospital is a 385-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Bakersfield, California. Serving nearly 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, maternity care, and orthopedics. Additionally, Memorial Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and its Lauren Small Children’s Center is the first comprehensive pediatric program in Kern County.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

As our Specialist, Nurse Practice, you will function as an expert clinician and educator, instrumental in elevating clinical care and outcomes across our nursing staff.

Every day, you will collaborate with nursing staff, nursing managers, nursing directors, education services, the Director of Nursing Standards and Practice, and physicians. This involves monitoring the clinical care of patients and providing essential clinical support to improve patient care, staff satisfaction, patient satisfaction, and patient outcomes. You will embody the roles of expert clinician, educator, role model, patient advocate, change agent, leader, and cost-effective practitioner, actively driving best practices and continuous improvement within nursing.

To be successful in this role, you will possess extensive experience as a Registered Nurse with advanced clinical expertise, and proven experience in nursing education or professional development. You will demonstrate exceptional clinical judgment, strong communication, and teaching skills, capable of mentoring staff and influencing positive clinical practice changes.

• Performance Expectations
• Establishes and maintains standards of care, utilizing the nursing process; provides and demonstrates quality nursing care by initiating individualized care plans, problem solving, utilization of hospital and community resources, and collaboration with other health professionals.
• Evaluates, plans, develops and coordinates Dendrion patient care, pheresis patient care and intrathecal patient care in line with best evidence in each area.
• Evaluates, plans, develops and implements the quality of care throught such activities as staff and environmental rounding, audits for the purpose of identifying problems which are common to nursing, planning and adminstering staff and patient education when needed, policy review, writing and updating, assuring that EMR and drug regimens are up to date and in line with best evidence,
• Assists with the development, communication, and implementation of established standards, policies, procedures and protocols. Offers regular feedback, guidance and support to staff.
• Educator

Required

• Bachelors Of Nursing and A minimum of 5 years current clinical experience caring for telemetry patients. , upon hire or
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire

Preferred

• Masters Of Nursing and background in Clinical Education. National Certification , upon hire or
• Other CNS, upon hire