Registered Nurse - Recuperative Care Center​/Enhanced Care Management - Shift - Bilingual; Engli

Kern Medical has been a community cornerstone since its founding in 1867. Today, we are an acute care teaching center with 222 beds, offering the only advanced trauma care between Fresno and Los Angeles. Kern Medical offers a range of primary, specialty, and multi-specialty services including high-risk pregnancy care, inpatient psychiatric services integrated with county mental health programs, and a growing network of outpatient clinics providing personalized patient-centered wellness care.

Kern Medical cares for 15,500 inpatients and 125,000 clinic patients a year.

• New Hire Bonus: $6,000 Sign-on Bonus paid in four (4) installments.
• New Hire Premium: +6% of the base rate of pay matched up to 6% if contributed to the Deferred Compensation Plan.
• Shift Differentials: 10% of base pay for hours worked from 7:00 P.M. to 7:30 A.M.
• A Comprehensive Benefits Package: includes Holidays, Vacation, Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance.

Hospital Staff Nurse - Recuperative Care / Enhanced Care Management - Shift

The estimated pay for this position is $42.6582 to $67.2165. The rates shown include a 6% premium pay (base= $-$ plus 6%). This reflects only a portion of the total compensation package for this position. Additional compensation may be available for this role through differentials, incentives, and bonuses. In addition, this position may be eligible for participation and company contributions to the Kern County Employees’ Retirement Plan.

Under the supervision of a nurse leader (Chief Nursing Officer, Clinical Director, Clinical Supervisor, and Clinical Nurse Leader), independently prescribes, delegates, and coordinates nursing care to the acutely ill patient and performs the nursing process through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of safe, therapeutic care for patients.

This classification ranges from novice nurses with limited knowledge and skills to expert nurses with advanced knowledge and skills and the ability to perform work with minimum supervision. It is designed to accommodate the expanding experience of the Registered Nurse (RN), resulting in the ability to orient nurses with limited experience and re-entry nurses to current clinical practice. The HSN is expected to be committed to enhancing the profession of nursing, actively seek to improve their professional practice, contribute to the professional development of others, demonstrate caring-healing practices and promote the vision and goals of the organization and Department of Nursing.

All nursing clinical practice will be evaluated and governed by the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and/or their RN designee.

• Creates and sustains an environment that supports compassionate caring through authentic presence with the patient and family, builds trusting relationships, and creates connections that embrace mind, body, and spirit modalities to mobilize the patient’s strengths and abilities toward healing.
• Collects and documents data for assigned patients according to prescribed methods.
• Interprets assessment data to determine whether the patient has physiological and/or psychosocial risk factors, records and reports variances from normal parameters.
• Collaborates with the patient, family, and healthcare team members to develop an individualized plan of care based on existing and potential patient problems and observable patient responses. Implements nursing and physician orders safely.
• Uses education, experience, and interpretation of assessment data to prioritize appropriate nursing actions.
• Establishes nursing diagnoses, uses appropriate resources to formulate a written plan of care, evaluates the effectiveness of nursing interventions, and revises patient care plans as necessary.
• Anticipates and effectively manages rapidly changing situations by rapidly grasping changes in patient status and problem situations. Prioritizing and responding quickly and appropriately to identify the need for and activation of emergency protocols and assistance.
• Performs and documents…