Medical Acute RN

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well‑being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans.

You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient‑first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast‑paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Assessment:
  Performs total body and system assessment each shift/visit according to unit standards.
• Care of Patient:
  Including planning, implementing, evaluating and educating.
• Clinical/Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Utilizes technology, procedures, protocols, standards and interventions specific to assigned unit.
• Documentation:
  Performs legible, timely, concise and accurate documentation according to policies and procedures. Proficient and competent with the computerized documentation system.
• Leadership:
  Accepts responsibility and accountability for own decisions and behaviors. Recognizes, accepts and cooperates with direction from facility leadership.
• Precepting/Mentoring:
  Participates in orientation of new staff, ancillary personnel and mentors students in a constructive and positive manner. Serves as resource to staff from other nursing departments.

• 1 year Registered Nurse in an acute care Medical‑Surgical Unit. (Exception: when staffing is experienced enough to support a trainee, applicants without the experience may be considered.)
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire.
• Basic Life Support – CPR, upon hire.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 30 days.

Dignity Health, Mercy Hospital of Folsom is the community hospital serving the Sierra foothills communities of Folsom, El Dorado Hills, Granite Bay, Cameron Park, Shingle Springs and Rescue. With 106 licensed acute‑care beds our accredited non‑profit hospital has been providing exceptional care for more than 35 years. Mercy Hospital of Folsom provides surgical services including minimally‑invasive general urological and gynecological surgeries. We also provide comprehensive and award‑winning orthopedic services which include surgery inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation and specialty orthopedic care.

As a certified Joint Commission Stroke Center, Mercy Folsom provides exceptional care to our patients in our Medical Surgical and Intensive Care units as well as our 25‑bed Emergency Department. Our Family Birth Center features private and contemporary birthing suites where labor delivery and recovery occur in one room as well as award‑winning lactation training and support. Mercy Folsom received Among America’s 250 Best Hospitals recognition and is a Primary Stroke Center.

$72.64 – $88.21 /hour