RN Trauma ICU
Redding, California
Posted Aug 15
- Unit
- ICU
What the listing says
Role
- Term
- Permanent
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
- Experience
- 1+ years
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
The median for nursing in California is $49/hr, across 1926 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
*Job Summary and Responsibilities*
As a Registered Nurse (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 be successful in this 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.
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Performs routine physical/psychosocial assessment to collect basic data: follows the written plan of care, standards, practice guidelines, utilizes pathways, which includes notifying physicians as appropriate. Formulates a plan of care for individual needs, including patient population needs. Participates in the planning of routine transitional health care needs (i.e. treatment options, patient placement options).
Adapts planned educational programs and information to individual patients and family by modifying teaching strategies or content. Integrates education during the delivery of patient care. Communicates patient's plan of care and significant changes to all members of the interdisciplinary team (using SBAR hands off reporting) and to the patient, family and significant others.
Makes independent clinical decisions based on knowledge drawn from education and experience. Actively advocates for patient rights and identifies potential conflict. Seeks counsel for resolution of conflict.
*Job Requirements**Required:*
One year recent open heart or critical careexperience. May consider training with 1 year continuous, recent (within 1 year)experience in telemetry or step down unit if operational considerations exist. Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire and Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 12 - months
Where You'll Work
Mercy Medical Center Redding offers comprehensive health care to nearly 300,000 residents in a six-county region. It is one of only two Level II trauma centers, the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the only Joint Commission-certified Advanced Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center north of Sacramento north of Sacramento. Mercy Medical Center Redding is a 266-bed regional medical center providing inpatient and outpatient services as well as specialized cardiovascular care, stroke care, orthopedics, neurological surgery, comprehensive cancer care, maternity care, and a robust robotic surgery program.
In addition, the hospital’s network of care includes Mercy Home Health and Hospice and Dignity Health Connected Living.
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*Pay Range*
$54.43 - $73.98 /hour
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Requirements
- Registered Nurse - California
Place
- City
- Redding, California
- Median rent
- $1,379/mo
- Local household income
- $70,466/yr
- Metro price level
- 1% above the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Redding area index 100.7, where 100 is the national average.
Redding sits where the Sacramento River winds through the Shasta Cascade foothills, offering nurses a slower pace with easy access to Shasta Lake and Lassen Volcanic National Park. Outdoor recreation dominates the lifestyle here—hiking, fishing, and boating are minutes from downtown.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
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CommonSpirit Health is a large, faith-based nonprofit healthcare system formed in 2019 through the merger of Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI). Headquartered in Chicago with a significant operational presence in Los Angeles, CA, the system operates 2,200+ care…
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ICU / Critical Care is a specialty you move into. The classic route: base year, then transfer in.
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