Nurse Neuroscience

As our Registered Nurse (RN) on our 30-bed Neuroscience Unit at Mercy San Juan Medical Center, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Our unit is a Joint Commission Certified Comprehensive Stroke Center of Excellence, where all stroke patients are admitted/transferred, and we also specialize in spine surgery patients, with plans for Joint Commission Designation as a Spine Center of Excellence in the near future.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. The unit's strength lies in its staff's exceptional competence, dedication, and clinical judgment, demonstrating high-level critical thinking to ensure timely, thoughtful, individualized, and evidence-based care. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, participating in daily Multidisciplinary Rounds with Physicians and other allied health professionals, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. Our close partnership with Dignity's Neuro Institute provides many opportunities for ongoing education.

To be successful in this role, you must possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. This team's shared commitment to excellence extends beyond routine care, as they advocate for patients, support one another, and maintain standards that promote safety, dignity, and trust. Your professionalism, dedication, and sense of urgency in this fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery, fostering confidence in the care they receive, but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Assessment: Performs total body and system assessment each shift/visit according to unit standards.
• Care of Patient: Including planning, implementing, evaluating and educating.
• Clinical/Technical Skills: Utilizes technology, procedures, protocols, standards and interventions specific to assigned unit.
• Documentation: Performs legible, timely, concise and accurate documentation according to policies and procedures.
• Proficient and competent with the computerized documentation system.
• Leadership: Accepts responsibility and accountability for own decisions and behaviors.

This is a Break Relief position which relieves nurses in the department for their lunches and breaks during the 1000-1630 shift. 

Required:

• Current CA RN License and BLS Certification from the American Heart Association.
• Two (2) years acute care RN experience caring for patients with medical surgical conditions 
• Recently taken Neuro Classes 
• American Heart Association Advanced Stroke Life Support (ASLS) within six (6) months of hire

Preferred: 

• One (1) year Neuro experience
• Neuro certification and proven recent ability to care for both Neuro Medical and Neuro Surgical patients 
• Basic Neuro (or) Advanced Neuro (or) Popouri training 
• Certified Neuroscience RN or Stroke Certified RN certification

Founded in 1967, Dignity Health - Mercy San Juan Medical Center is a 377-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Carmichael, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, cancer care, women’s health, and neurology. Additionally, Mercy San Juan Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Comprehensive Stroke Center, the highest level of stroke care certification awarded by The Joint Commission.

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Depending on the position offered, CommonSpirit Health offers a generous benefit package, including but not limited to medical, prescription drug, dental, vision plans, life insurance, paid time off (full-time benefit eligible team members may receive a minimum of 14 paid time off days, including holidays annually), tuition reimbursement, retirement plan benefit(s) including, but not limited to, 401(k), 403(b), and other defined benefits offerings, as may be amended from time to time. For more information, please visit our Total Rewards.

Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.