Clinical Nurse II; RN), Critical Care Transition to Practice Program

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The Stanford Health Care (SHC) Critical Care Transition to Practice Program begins on August 18, 2025.

Applicant Timeline / Next Steps:
Online applications will be accepted from Monday, April 14th through Sunday, April 20th, 2025.

Join our team of dedicated critical care nurses and transform your nursing practice! Stanford Nurses are recognized as bold leaders, compassionate healers, educators, and mentors, providing the highest standards of excellence in care while generating long-term impressions that continue to set SHC apart as the best place to work and thrive. Stanford Nursing offers a wide array of career advancement opportunities, access to the latest technologies and health care innovations, and boasts a workplace culture that encourages personal growth and work-life balance, while honoring its commitment to delivering evidence-based and patient-centered care.

To foster your growing talents, we invite you to consider the Critical Care Transition to Practice Program. Thoughtfully designed for highly motivated and committed nurses, this is a comprehensive one-year training program, providing bedside care hours with an experienced nurse preceptor, supported with clinical education and immersive training workshops.

Program Requirements:

• Able to communicate effectively in English.
• 2 years, within the last 3 years, of Acute Care or Emergency Department RN experience preferred. Any ICU experience will disqualify you as this is for those with no ICU experience.

• California Registered Nurse (RN) license
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for providers issued by the American Heart Association
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association.

Available Units May Include:

• Medical/ Oncology ICU
• Neurosciences ICU
• Medical ICU
• Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery ICU
• Cardiac Surgery ICU
• Surgical, Trauma, and Transplant ICU
• Float Pool ICU

Must submit the following required documents
-if documents are not submitted your application will be incomplete:

• Work Experience:
  
  Must provide job title, unit type, responsibilities (patient population served), and time frame for employment

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview

The Clinical Nurse (CN) is an RN who provides hands-on care to patients, practicing in an evidence-based manner, within the Scope of Practice of the California Nursing Practice Act, regulatory requirements, standards of care, and hospital policies. The CN performs all steps of the nursing process, including assessing patients; interpreting data; planning, implementing, and evaluating care; coordinating care with other providers;

and teaching the patient and family the knowledge and skills needed to manage their care and prevent complications. The CN partners with the patient's family wherever possible, considering all aspects of care, to deliver family centered care. As a professional, monitors the quality of nursing care provided.

The Clinical Nurse is responsible for his/her own professional development, including licensure, Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, and maintaining current knowledge regarding the assigned patient population.

As a member of the nursing profession, the Clinical Nurse contributes to the profession of nursing through such activities as teaching others, sharing expertise in the unit or hospital.

Please note:

A Nurse who voluntarily agrees to work in a "weekends only" position is not eligible for premium pay under Section 17.2.

Our Clinical Nurse (RN) job classification is represented by the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA). CRONA is an independent union for Registered Nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Health Stanford. For more information, please visit the CRONA website at https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

NOTE:

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification may be required by the cost center in which the position resides. Please check AskHR for a complete listing of those cost centers requiring the ACLS certification.

Locations

Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• The Helping Role Establishes Therapeutic Relationships:
  Creates and maintains a climate conducive to healing through being present to the patient and family, identifying and managing discomforts; providing emotional support and information; guiding the patient and family through phases of illness and recovery/passage to death and in accordance with the patient's goals and culture.
• Mobilizes the patient's strengths and abilities…