RN, Medical ICU (Per Diem, Day Shift)
Tehachapi, California
Health system employer
Posted Aug 10
- Shift
- Days
- Unit
- MICU
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- Days
- Term
- Per Diem
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
The median for nursing in California is $49/hr, across 1922 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley has been providing high-quality healthcare services since 1934. We are comprised of a 25-bed hospital, wide range of outpatient services, emergency department, rural health clinics and medical offices. Tehachapi is located just north of Southern California's highly populated areas, with a mountain locale known for its outdoor living. Residents enjoy the scenic beauty, extreme sports and wildlife. Tehachapi is a nice balance of a small-town community within an epicenter of shopping, retail, arts and culture.
Job
Summary
Delivers coordinated nursing care for a patient or an assigned group of patients according to established standards of care and the nursing process. Supervises and directs the activities of various levels of assigned nursing staff, and coordinates care with other disciplines while utilizing critical thinking, professional and supervisory discretion, and independent judgment.
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Job
Requirements
Education and Work
Experience
Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN): Preferred Acute care facility
experience
Preferred
Licenses/
Certifications
Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice: Required Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification or Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from approved vendor per AH policy: Required
Facility Specific License/
Certifications
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from approved vendor per AH policy: Required
Department Specific License/
Certifications
AHA-ACLS or ARC-ALS: Required AHA-PALS or ARC-PALS: Required
Essential Functions
Collects relevant data pertinent to the patient’s health or situation. Analyzes the assessment data in determining diagnosis and care issues. Develops a plan that prescribes interventions to attain outcomes.
Implements the plan, coordinates care delivery, and employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment. Evaluates progress toward attaining outcomes. Identifies outcomes for the patient or the patient’s situation.
Collaborates with the team of patient, family, and healthcare providers in providing patient care in a safe, healing, humane, and caring environment. Provides learning opportunities for patients/family members and team members. Directly provides health information to patients, families, and treatment team.
Participates in discharge planning in order to provide continuity of care. Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of healthcare team members. Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Organizational
Requirements
Adventist Health is committed to the safety and wellbeing of our associates and patients. Therefore, we require that all associates receive all required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter, where applicable. Medical and religious exemptions may apply.
Adventist Health participates in E-Verify. Visit https://adventisthealth.org/careers/everify/ for more information about E-Verify. By choosing to apply, you acknowledge that you have accessed and read the E-Verify Participation and Right to Work notices and understand the contents therein.
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Requirements
- Education and Work
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN): Preferred
- Adventist Health is committed to the safety and wellbeing of our associates and patients. Therefore, we require that all associates receive all required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter, where applicable. Medical and religious exemptions may apply.
- Adventist Health participates in E-Verify. Visit https://adventisthealth.org/careers/everify/ for more information about E-Verify. By choosing to apply, you acknowledge that you have accessed and read the E-Verify Participation and Right to Work notices and understand the contents therein.
Place
- City
- Tehachapi, California
- Median rent
- $1,295/mo
- Local household income
- $72,957/yr
- State price level
- 11% above the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
California index 110.7, where 100 is the national average.
Tehachapi is a small mountain-town community in the Tehachapi Mountains, known for its apple orchards, wind farms, and the historic Tehachapi Loop railroad landmark. At roughly 4,000 feet elevation, it offers four distinct seasons and a slower pace with easy access to both Bakersfield and the Mojave Desert — ideal for nurses seeking rural calm.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 Regional Price Parities.
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Adventist Health is a faith-inspired, nonprofit integrated health system serving more than 100 communities on the West Coast and Hawaii with over 400 sites of care, including 27 acute care facilities, clinics, home care agencies, hospice agencies, and joint-venture retirement…
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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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