Staff - Registered Nurse (RN) - Labor and Delivery - $48-68 per hour

Kaiser Permanente is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Labor and Delivery for a nursing job in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Labor and Delivery
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: Ongoing
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, nights
• Employment Type: Staff

This position is a Hawaii Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Bargaining Unit represented position.    

Job Summary:

Provides nursing care and services to patients/families. Provides direction to licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistive personnel. Delegates nursing care according to legal and regulatory guidelines/statutes and organizational policies. Utilizes reasonable judgment in carrying out prescribed medical orders of a practitioner. Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver. Serves as resource nurse. Acts as preceptor and takes charge duties as assigned.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Practices professional nursing and delegates nursing tasks to nursing assistive personnel and provides direction to the LPN as appropriate.


• Utilizes nursing process to deliver care.


• Performs any nursing task requiring nursing knowledge, judgment, and skill and maintains organizational, departmental, and job-specific competencies in accordance with their departmental scope of service, discipline, specific scopes of practice and defined job descriptions.


• Administers medications.


• As appropriate, may administer intradermal local anesthetic for IV placement.


• Teaches LPNs and nursing assistive personnel special tasks of nursing care.


• Verifies staff competency to perform special tasks of nursing care as appropriate.


• Is responsible and accountable for quality of nursing rendered and adequacy of nursing care provided when special tasks are delegated to nursing assistive personnel.


• Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver.


• Serves as resource nurse and acts as preceptor.


• Takes charge duties as assigned.


• Incorporates the KP Vision, Model and Values throughout their Nursing Practice.


• Performs administrative and other duties and accepts responsibility as assigned.


• May perform patient care to the extent necessary to maintain clinical expertise, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care on the unit.

Basic Qualifications:
Experience

• Minimum one (1) year experience of labor & delivery.

Education

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.

License, Certification, Registration

• Registered Nurse License (Hawaii) required at hire

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 12 months of hire from American Heart Association

• Basic Life Support from American Heart Association

• Neonatal Resuscitation Program within 12 months of hire from American Academy of Pediatrics

Additional Requirements:

• Complete the Association of Womens Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Advanced Fetal Monitoring Certificate within 12 months of hire.


• Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in adaptability, change management, decision making, detail oriented, customer service, influence, interpersonal relations, oral communication, prioritization, problem solving, quality management, results orientation, system thinking, teamwork, time management, written communication competencies.


• Minimum of one (1) year of experience in area of specialty or completion of formal course in area of specialty within established time frame.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with electronic medical records.


• Coursework in basic EKG.

Kaiser Permanente Job ID #1319038. Posted job title: Staff Nurse - Labor & Delivery

About Kaiser Permanente

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