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Job Field: Office Jobs
Location: South San Francisco, CA
Salary: $Not stated

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<tr><td valign="top" width="450"><b>Title: Staff Nurse II - Ambulatory CareLocation: South San Francisco, CAThe Registered Nurse (RN) II is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame. The RN II provides care to patients via the therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment and instrumentation, and other health care team members.Essential Functions:- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy. (Title 22 language)- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care when and where appropriate to do so.- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.- Establishes patient care priorities based on essential patient needs and availability of unit resources (time, personnel, equipment, and supplies).- Identifies patient/family learning needs and acts to meet them. Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.- Provides/coordinates care for patients/patient populations.- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families.- Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties/activities of health care team members.- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by team members.- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified by the institution.- Performs efficiently in emergency situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and department personnel.- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.- Participates in unit and department Performance Improvement activities.- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.- Identifies and solves problems effectively.- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.- Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.- Demonstrates proficiency in the use of computers and telecommunication modalities in documenting, tracking and conveying information.- If practicing in a specialty/extended role, fulfills the expectations established for the particular role.- Perform other related duties as necessary.- This job has no supervisory responsibility.Qualifications:Basic Qualifications:- Six (6) months of experience as a Registered Nurse.- AMBULATORY CARE, GENERALIST - 1 year acute care experience. 6 months recent (within the last 3 years) experience in ambulatory care preferred.- SPECIALITY AREAS - If no qualified candidate, will be willing to train. Where indicated, candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certification(s) within the designated timeframe for a particular field of practice.- High School Diploma/GED.- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience; OR Graduate of registered nursing program and either: 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as a licensed vocational n

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