Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Staff RN, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

Clinical Practice & Case Management- Provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum to include patient and family education.Responsible for developing, overseeing and implementing comprehensive case management and treatment plans for patients with cardiac and pulmonary diseases.Utilizes the AIDET (Standard Patient Satisfaction Criteria) to communicate with others, with a focus on patients and their families.Provides monitored exercise therapy to clients in the Lifestyle Management Program (i.e. with the diagnosis of heart disease, COPD, diabetes, PAD, obesity, etc.).Maintains current clinical data, insurance information and program records on each client.Adjusts treatment plan in accordance with established protocols, co-morbidities, client goals/needs and medical history.
Job Requirements

Required

Bachelors Of Science Nursing and One year experience in lifestyle management, exercise training, prescription and supervision of medical patients., upon hire andOne year experience providing nurse case management, leading group exercise and education classes andRegistered Nurse: CA, upon hire andBasic Life Support - CPR, upon hire andAdvanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire and

Preferred

Masters Of Science or advanced degree in nursing or related field and Two years experience in lifestyle management, exercise training, prescription and supervision of medical patients. , upon hire andTwo years experience providing nurse case management, leading group exercise and education classes.Certified Diabetes Educator, upon hireWhere You'll Work

Dominican Hospital (a member of Dignity Health) is a 222-bed facility that offers a wide range of services to residents of California’s Central Coast. With 24/7 emergency care, comprehensive care in cardiac, orthopedics, oncology, women’s and children’s services, we continue to lead the region in medical innovation and excellence in healthcare.

Comprehensive Care
Dominican offers emergency services and is a Certified Stroke Center and Chest Pain Center. Dominican’s services include the only comprehensive Cancer Center in Santa Cruz County, a Total Joint Replacement program, and advanced neurological and endoscopic services. Dominican regularly receives ‘A’ grades for hospital safety from Leapfrog Group, and has received national recognition for superior patient safety, cardiac care, and stroke treatment from Healthgrades, a leading provider of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.
As Santa Cruz County’s heart attack (STEMI) receiving center, Dominican Hospital provides cutting edge cardiac care. The hospital’s heart attack treatment times consistently beat the national average, and the hospital offers two cardiac catheterization labs available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Groundbreaking cardiac procedures at Dominican include the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure, which allows for heart valve replacement without opening a patient’s chest.
Dominican Hospital has forged significant partnerships with area hospitals to bring exceptional care to Santa Cruz County. The hospital offers a level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) through a partnership with Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Neurosurgery at Dominican is also offered through a partnership with Stanford Health Care.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

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.