Job Description

The Clinical Staff Nurse is a skilled and experienced professional Registered Nurse (RN) responsible for excellence in the clinical practice of nursing and the management of patient care in a combined Telemetry/Medical Surgical Unit.

Reporting to the Clinical Unit Supervisor of Medical Surgical Nursing, the Clinical Staff Nurse has 12 hour accountability for organizing, planning, directing, coordinating, and providing high quality, individualized patient/family centered care based on the Watson Model of Care for a defined group of patients, including the identification and demonstration of abilities to meet special needs and considerations of Age and Population Specific awareness.

Qualifications

 A.   Education

• Bachelor of Sciences degree in nursing (individuals hired without a BSN will be required to complete a degree program within 5 years of their hire date)

B.  Qualifications/Experience

• Minimum of one year of clinical nursing experience.
• Minimum of 12 months Med/Surg/Telemetry or Critical Care nursing preferred with regard to regulatory guidelines and standard of practice and/or at the discretion of the Manager/ Director.
• Current California Nursing license
• Basic EKG Competence
• Certification in Medical / Surgical Nursing preferred.

C.   Special Skills/Knowledge

• Bilingual skills preferred (Spanish)
• Basic computer skills
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Current Advance Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Electronic Medical Record experience preferred

About the Hospital

Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH) is a private, nonprofit, state-of-the-art, safety-net hospital with the mission of bringing the highest quality healthcare to the historically underserved communities of South Los Angeles. Since we opened our doors in 2015, we have made a meaningful impact on the lives and health of our neighbors. Come work with us.