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.

 

 

• Renders direct and indirect nursing care to assigned patient populations
• Assesses patients for nursing needs, establishes and implements a problem oriented plan of nursing care, and evaluates the effectiveness of care provided 
• Provides immediate direction to other members of the nursing care team to assure the appropriate provision of nursing services
• Patient age populations served, and the specific competencies that comprise this job title may vary among nursing units

 

Job Requirements

 Required

 

• Must possess and maintain a current Registered Nurse (RN) license with the state of California. 
• Must possess and maintain a current Basic Life Support (BLS) certificate. 
• Must possess and maintain a current Advance Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certificate or obtain one within 6 months of hire.
• Must be able to take call, float to other areas, and work on weekends as required.

Preferred

 

• One or more years experience in Telemetry or acute care setting.
• Basic EKG certificate
• Bilingual

 

Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire.  This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements.

Where You’ll Work

Founded in 1873, Dignity Health - Mercy Medical Center is a 186-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Merced, California. Serving over 150,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II NICU, heart care, the Mercy Cancer Center, and a family birth center. Additionally, Merced Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center.

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