Registered Nurse - Emergency Department - Per Diem - Shift

Job Category: Nursing - Registered Nurse

Requisition Number: REGIS
004617

• Posted:
  April 13, 2026
• Full-Time

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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 15,000 inpatients and 125,000 clinic patients a year.

• Per Diem employees supplement department staffing needs, with no guarantee of minimum hours.
• Must be willing and available to work four (4) shifts per six (6) week scheduling period.

Compensation:

The estimated pay for this position is $40.24 – $63.41. 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.

Distinguishing Characteristics:

This classification ranges from novice nurse with limited knowledge and skills to expert nurse with advanced knowledge and skills, allowing the RN to work with minimum supervision. It is designed to accommodate the expanding experience of the Registered Nurse (RN) and to re‑enter nurses into current clinical practice. The RN is expected to be committed to enhancing the profession of nursing, actively seeking to improve professional practice, contributing to the professional development of others, demonstrating caring‑healing practices, and promoting the vision and goals of the organization and Department of Nursing.

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

Essential Functions:

• Creates and sustains an environment that supports compassionate caring through authentic presence with the patient and family, building trusting relationships, and creating 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 a patient has physiological and/or psychosocial risk factors, records and reports variances from normal parameters.
• Collaborates with the patient, family, and members of the healthcare team to develop individualized plans 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. Prioritizes and responds quickly and appropriately to identify the need for and activation of emergency protocols and assistance.
• Performs and documents the nursing process consistent with scientific principles and hospital policy as required for patient assignments using critical thinking and nursing judgment.
• Implements the medical and nursing care plans and coordinates patient care activities with nurses, physicians, and Advanced Practice Providers.
• Partners with the patient/family to assess learning needs, priorities, and level of understanding and co‑develops plans. Designs teaching methods and plans accordingly; follows through on teaching plans to instruct patients and their family members regarding testing, procedures, disease process, knowledge, skills essential to coping with illness, and promotion of optimum health.
• Coordinates and participates in patient care rounds and conferences.
• Understands team dynamics and collaborates effectively within the care team.
• Contributes to team building…