Nurse Neuroscience

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Registered Nurse (RN) on the 30-bed Neuroscience Unit, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care to stroke patients who are admitted/ transferred to our Joint Commission Certified Comprehensive Stroke Center of Excellence and help achieve optimal health outcomes 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 will be expected to demonstrate high-level critical thinking to ensure timely, thoughtful, individualized, and evidence-based care and continue our close partnership with Dignity's Neuro Institute which provides many opportunities for ongoing education.

To be successful in this role, you must possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. This team's shared commitment to excellence extends beyond routine care, as they advocate for patients, support one another, and maintain standards that promote safety, dignity, and trust. Your professionalism, dedication, and sense of urgency in this fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery, fostering confidence in the care they receive, 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 the 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 a resource to staff from other nursing departments.

Job Requirements

Required

 

• Two (2) years acute care RN experience caring for patients with medical surgical conditions
• Active Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of California
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification - American Heart Association
• American Heart Association Advanced Stroke Life Support (ASLS) within six (6) months of hire
• Recently taken Neuro Classes 

 

Preferred

 

• One (1) year Neuro experience
• Neuro certification and proven recent ability to care for both Neuro Medical and Neuro Surgical patients 
• Basic Neuro (or) Advanced Neuro (or) Popouri training 
• Certified Neuroscience RN or Stroke Certified RN certification

Where You’ll Work

Founded in 1967, Dignity Health - Mercy San Juan Medical Center is a 377-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Carmichael, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, cancer care, women’s health, and neurology. Additionally, Mercy San Juan Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Comprehensive Stroke Center, the highest level of stroke care certification awarded by The Joint Commission.

 

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