Emergency Room Staff RN - FT Days
Kaiser Permanente
Los Angeles, CA
Posted Mar 23, 2026
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via Kaiser Permanente Careers
Job Description
ss in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect.
Essential Responsibilities:
• The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
• Leadership:
• Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.
• Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
• Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
• Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.
• Champions new ideas.
• Leads and directs others through the change process.
• Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
• Participates in problem identification and resolution.
• Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities.
• Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.
• Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
• Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
• Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
• Nursing Process:
• Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
• Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
• Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
• Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
• Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.
• Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
• Ensures care meets standards of practice.
• Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education.
• Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
• Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.
• Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
• Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
• Patient Care Experience:
• Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
• Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
• Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
• Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
• Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
• Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
• Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
• Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
• Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
• Patient Care Experience:
• Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
• Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
• Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
• Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
• Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
• Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
• Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
• Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
• Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
• Team Commitment:
• Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
• Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
• Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
• Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
• Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).
• Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
• Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.
• Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.
• Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.
• Fiscal Responsibility:
• Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
• Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
• Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.
Essential Responsibilities:
• The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
• Leadership:
• Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.
• Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
• Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
• Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.
• Champions new ideas.
• Leads and directs others through the change process.
• Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
• Participates in problem identification and resolution.
• Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities.
• Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.
• Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
• Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
• Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
• Nursing Process:
• Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
• Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
• Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
• Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
• Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.
• Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
• Ensures care meets standards of practice.
• Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education.
• Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
• Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.
• Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
• Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
• Patient Care Experience:
• Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
• Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
• Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
• Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
• Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
• Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
• Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
• Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
• Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
• Patient Care Experience:
• Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
• Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
• Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
• Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
• Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
• Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
• Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
• Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
• Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
• Team Commitment:
• Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
• Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
• Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
• Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
• Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).
• Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
• Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.
• Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.
• Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.
• Fiscal Responsibility:
• Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
• Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
• Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.
Qualifications
- • Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others
- • Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance
Benefits
Responsibilities
- • As the leader of the health care team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing process in accordance with established standards of care, policies, and procedures
- • Demonstrates performance consistent with the Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the organization
- • Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all members of the health care team with dignity and respect
- • The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
- • Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws
- • Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability
- • Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate
- • Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior
- • Champions new ideas
- • Leads and directs others through the change process
- • Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes
- • Participates in problem identification and resolution
- • Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities
- • Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance
- • Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution
- • Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities
- • Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice
- • Nursing Process:
- • Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan
- • Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education
- • Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity
- • Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner
- • Monitors the patients progress based on the plan
- • Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress
- • Ensures care meets standards of practice
- • Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education
- • Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions
- • In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan
- • Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections
- • Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge
- • Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge
- • Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department
- • Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests
- • Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources
- • Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
- • Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment
- • Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion
- • Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs
- • Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension
- • Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations
- • Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department
- • Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests
- • Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources
- • Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
- • Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment
- • Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion
- • Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs
- • Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension
- • Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations
- • Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism
- • Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members
- • Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development
- • (Requirement may vary for per diem staff)
- • Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan
- • Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change
- • Adheres to Attendance Program
- • Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift
- • Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams
- • Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime
- • Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction
- • Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential