Clinical Nurse I Float I: Nursing Staffing Office

• The Clinical Nurse I – Float role provides direct patient care in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act.
• The Float Nurse floats to different units and is assigned patients based on hospital needs.
• The nurse collaborates with other disciplines of the health care team to ensure the delivery of safe, timely and appropriate quality patient care.
• This includes providing physical assessments, nursing interventions, pain management, medication administrations, specimen collection, meeting nutritional needs, and teaching and discharge needs of the patients assigned.
• Utilizes the nursing process based on evidence-based best practices to meet patient care needs.
• Evaluates and adjusts the nursing care process as necessary with consultation as needed, and confers with the appropriate resource personnel when making ethical/legal/medical dilemma decisions.
• Maintains a working knowledge of departmental and hospital standards, policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

• Requires a Bachelor’s of Nursing (BSN) or that a BSN program is started within one year of hire date and BSN degree is attained within two years of the starting the BSN program.
• Successful completion of an ECG course required.
• One year nursing experience required.
• Float I: Minimum of 2 years of experience in Telemetry required.
• Float II: Minimum of 2 years of experience in Sub-ICU required.
• Float III: Minimum of 2 years of experience in Critical Care required.

License Required:

• Registered Nurse in the State of California - Current and in good standing.

License Preferred:

• N/A

Certifications Required

• Current BLS certification prior to clinical rotation.
• Current ACLS certification prior to clinical rotation.

Certifications Preferred

• N/A