Specialty Unit Staff RN - LABOR & DELIVERY

Documentation

• Charting is accurate, legible, dated, and timed. Documentation reflects nursing process and interventions and evaluations taken. Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care.
• Clinical
• Outcomes: Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team. Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing completion by departmental competency validation. Make comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data, assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes. Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving.
• Workplace
• Safety: Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices. Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others
• Patient
• Care
• Experience: Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department. Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests. Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers' ability to utilize resources. Maintains and protects patient confidentiality Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment. Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion. Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs. Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension. Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
• Team
• Commitment: Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others. Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance. Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism. Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members. Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff). Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan. Keeps self-informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change. Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift. Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit-based teams. Fiscal Responsibility Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime. Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction. Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience Minimum one (1) year recent (within the last 3 years) full-time equivalent experience in L & D, or successful completion of a KP L&D course (which includes basic fetal monitoring and NRP) or approved equivalent within prior 12 months. Education N/A License, Certification, Registration Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Advanced Fetal Monitoring Certificate required at hire OR Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Advanced Fetal Monitoring Certificate within 12 months of hire AND Kaiser PPSP for Nurses - Fetal Assessment Monitoring Certification required at hire Registered Nurse License (California) Advanced Cardiac Life Support Neonatal
• Resuscitation
• Program
• Basic
• Life
• Support
• Additional
• Requirements: May be expected to cross train to at least 1 other Perinatal area. Ability to scrub and circulate as required.

Preferred Qualifications

N/A Notes: If twelve (12) hour option chosen, shift will be 7:00 pm-7:30 am, back up 8-hour shift will be 11:00 pm to 7:30 am.