REGISTERED NURSE at SONOMA SPECIALTY HOSPITAL – Sebastopol, California

FULL-TIME & PART-TIME NOC SHIFT ONLY

Position Title: Registered Nurse

Department: Nursing

Reports To: Director(s) of Nursing

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

About Us:

Sonoma Specialty Hospital, as the county’s only Long-Term Acute Care Hospital, is dedicated to caring for patients that require an extended acute care stay due to severe illness or catastrophic injury. We accept patients from the ICU, Step-Down and Telemetry units of partner hospitals and continue their care for as long as 45 days. This care focuses on the challenges of getting patients off of ventilator support, healing severe wounds, aiding their recovery following surgical procedures, and providing rehabilitation to speed their return to daily life. Our Hospital provides ICU, Surgical, and Step-Down care with dialysis, multi-specialty therapies and ongoing planning for the patient’s transition back home or into a lower level of care. Please contact us with any questions, and welcome to Sonoma Specialty Hospital.

Job Summary:

The Registered Nurse is responsible for assessing the needs of each patient on his/her team, planning and implementing the care to meet those needs, interacting with team member and reporting to supervisor as appropriate.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

Initiative in organizing work and completing assignments. Cooperates with staff to maintain well organized department. Professional decorum at all times. Willing to accept direction from supervisor. Maintains tactful and cheerful relationship with patients, visitors, and staff. Must speak, read, write, and comprehend English. Must respect patient confidentiality. Math knowledge including basic algebra and ability to adjust drug dosages. Participates in in-service education programs. Cardiac rhythm recognition required.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

NOC SHIFT ONLY

Education, Training and Licenses Required:

• Current California RN license
• BLS and ACLS Certified

Experience Required:

• Prefer one-year acute care experience.

Equipment Knowledge Required:

Ability to learn function of machines utilized in patient care, various traction equipment and drainage tubes. Ability to assist MD/RN with procedures. Competency with the electronic documentation system must be obtained within 30 days of hire with full proficiency by 90 days of hire.

Safety Requirements:

Employees are responsible for all aspects of the hospital safety and health program including compliance with safety rules and regulations, remedying unsafe working conditions, and for continuously practicing safety while performing duties. Sonoma Specialty Hospital policy prohibits employees with patient contact or those who prepare products for patient use from wearing artificial nails.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the position is frequently required to do the following:

• Stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, and stand for sustained period of time.
• Walk, push, pull, lift, carry objects from a lower to higher position or horizontally from position to position or otherwise move objects.
• Feel sizes, shapes, temperatures, and textures by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips.
• Express or exchange ideas orally and potentially loudly, accurately, or quickly.
• Perceive the nature of sound with no less than a 40 db loss @ 1000 Hz and 2000 Hz with or without correction.
• Exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently.
• Minimum standard of visual acuity with or without correction.
• While worker may possibly be subjected to temperature changes, the worker is generally not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions as the work is predominantly inside.

Supervisory Requirements (if applicable): None