Job Description

Job Description

Tenet Desert is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Med Surg for a nursing job in Joshua Tree, California.

• Specialty: Med Surg
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: Ongoing
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours
• Employment Type: Staff

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Up to $15,000 Sign-On bonus based on experience

Welcome to  Hi-Desert Medical Center , where you’ll benefit from: 

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• A 59-bed acute primary care facility offering you and your family first-rate health care close to home 
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• A wide range of quality inpatient and outpatient diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation services, home health and hospice services, and a variety of community outreach programs 
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• A dedicated team of quality, caring, health care professionals 
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Position Summary

Provides high quality professional nursing services in a medical and surgical environment.

Shift : Days-7:00AM to 7:30PM

Hours: 12

Primary Duties 

• Maintains knowledge of the nursing process and the path physiology disease. Demonstrates knowledge of the nursing process and utilizes it in assessment of path physiology disease.
• Develops a plan of care based on assessments of patient problems with appropriate interventions.
• All patients assigned to RN have a plan of care based on assessments and interventions are appropriate.
• Ability to organize patient care responsibilities with assignment of ancillary staff based on skills and experience. 
• Patient care has been organized with appropriate assignment of ancillary staff.
• Provides patient education based on disease and discharge of planning needs. All patients assigned to RN have educational needs met and documentation is present on chart.
• Administers medications safely. No evidence of serious medication errors or careless practice. 
• Maintains patient confidentiality and provides information to patients when needed for Informed Consent.
• Observes patient’s rights, confidentiality & reports incidents of elder abuse when indicated.
• Archives competencies in skills needed for the unit assigned. Competencies are achieved and maintained through annual appraisal. 
• Completes documentation as required for chart documents and unusual occurrences (Incident Reports). Charting documentation is complete; incident reports are timely and routed appropriately.
• Maintains currency in nursing practice by attending seminars, in-services, and journal reading. 
• Nursing practice reflects currency in theory and adherence to correct principles.
• Assists in planning, supervising and instructing LVN’s, CNA’s and students. 
• Supervises and evaluates RN’s, LVN’s and Patient Care Technicians.
• Knowledge of patient’s rights, confidentiality, & Elder Abuse Reporting requirements. 
• Observes Patients’ Bill of Rights & reports incidents of Elder Abuse, if indicated.
• Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to cardiac arrhythmias displayed on a monitor and/or printed strip. Correctly identifies and appropriately responds to basic cardiac arrhythmias.

Tenet Desert Job ID #2503028441-0. Posted job title: RN Med Surg Full Time Days

• Sign-On bonus

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