RN Emergency Services

Where You’ll Work

Founded in 1956, Dignity Health - Memorial Hospital is a 385-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Bakersfield, California. Serving nearly 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, maternity care, and orthopedics. Additionally, Memorial Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and its Lauren Small Children’s Center is the first comprehensive pediatric program in Kern County.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Case Manager RN, you will coordinate the care and services of patients across the continuum of illness; promote effective utilization; monitor health care resources; and assume a leadership role with the interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal outcomes through the tools of case management. Every day you will perform a wide variety of high-level patient care activities to include admission assessment, screen for appropriateness, and development of a discharge plan. Timely and appropriate discharges will be accomplished by evaluating the patient's post-discharge needs and the provision of services necessary to meet those needs. To be successful in this role you must be knowledgeable in community resources and alternate care facilities.

• PATIENT ASSESSMENT/REASSESSMENT
  • Perform patient assessment/reassessment, including giving or receiving comprehensive change of shift and intermittent report, obtaining the nursing history, conducting a physical assessment, establishing priorities for care.
  • Assess patient's learning needs, readiness for discharge and ability of the patient/family/SO to manage illness after discharge.
  • Completes both computer and hand written documentation using correct format in an accurate, precise, timely, legible and complete manner .
  • Provide direct patient care, as required. Assist physician with procedures, as necessary.
  • Report changes in patient's condition to physician.

Job Requirements

Required

• Other Education level necessary to obtain required licensure and certifications, upon hire and
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire and
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, upon hire and

Preferred

• Bachelors Of Nursing BSN, upon hire and
• 1-2 years of Emergency Nursing
• Trauma Nurse Core Course, upon hire and
• Certified Emergency Nurse, upon hire