Staff Nurse 1 - SCAL Nurse Residency Program

The Kaiser Permanente National New Graduate Program is an innovative 12-month program where your knowledge, skills, and confidence will grow through the comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum. Your learning experience will include activities such as simulations, AI-assisted clinical judgement and knowledge assessments, and reflective learning exercises. Your orientation will include clinical and didactic training, precepted shifts, and mentorship to prepare you as you transition to professional practice.

This position allows applicants to apply to hospitals and medical centers in Southern California for the November 9th, 2026 cohort of the Nurse Residency Program. Applicants accepted into this training position will enter the KPSCAL Nurse Residency Program. Before applying, please read all the following information carefully. NOTE: This position is only for nurses with less than 6 months of paid RN work experience. Applicants will be able to share their location and unit choices (if applicable) during the career snapshot sent on August 26th, 2026.

Program Components

Clinical training: The first several weeks are predominantly classroom experiences, consisting of live, in-person and virtual classes. Classroom education courses are taught by Kaiser Permanente Nursing Professional Development Consultants and Subject Matter Experts that incorporate lecture, simulation, skills labs, and other experiences to support the RN resident-s transition to the practice of nursing. Classes are held during daytime hours.

Preceptorship: The RN resident will be paired with an RN preceptor during the competency-based orientation and will work the preceptor-s schedule. This may be days, evenings, or nights.12-month Professional Development Program Attendance and completion of the professional development program is mandatory for Nurse Residents Supports peer-based learning across clinical specialties Requires the completion of an Evidence-based Practice Project Upon completion of competency-based orientation, the RN resident will enter mentorship with an experienced RN. RN residents will be required to fill out anonymous surveys to measure your transition-to-practice experience.

Program Time Commitment: Attendance at all clinical and classroom activities is required. The RN resident refrains from scheduling time off (except for protected leave such as FMLA or other protected leaves) during the training program.

The following medical centers will be participating in the November cohort and will offer Med/Surg/Tele & Specialties (varies by sites: L&D; DOU; & ICU):

Baldwin Park

Downey

Panorama City

Riverside

San Diego

South Bay

West Los Angeles

Woodland Hills

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Essential

Responsibilities

• The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:

• Leadership:

• Upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.

• Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.

• Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.

• Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.

• Champions new ideas.

• Leads and directs others through the change process.

• Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.

• Participates in problem identification and resolution.

• Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities.

• Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.

• Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.

• Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.

• Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.

• Nursing Process:

• Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.

• Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.

• Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.

• Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.

• Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.

• Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.

• Ensures care meets standards of practice.

• Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education.

• Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.

• Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.

• Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.

• Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.

• Patient Care

Experience

• Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.

• Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.

• Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.

• Maintains and protects patient confidentiality.

• Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.

• Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.

• Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.

• Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.

• Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.

• Team Commitment:

• Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.

• Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.

• Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.

• Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.

• Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).

• Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.

• Keeps self-informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.

• Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.

• Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.

• Fiscal Responsibility:

• Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.

• Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.

• Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.

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Basic

Qualifications

Experience

• N/A

Education

• Graduate of a Board of Registered Nursing approved RN program that includes completion of 768 or more hours of supervised RN student clinical training.

License, Certification, Registration

• Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire

• Basic Life Support from American Heart Association

Additional

Requirements

• Applicants will be required to successfully complete a Kaiser Permanente Nursing Orientation Training Program. Entry into the KP Nursing Orientation Program requires that candidate must have less than 6 months of RN experience. All certifications, including cards of completion and/or advanced certification must be obtained in accordance with experience requirements as specified by the department.

Preferred

Qualifications

• BSN

• PrimaryLocation : California,Pasadena,199 S. Los Robles
• HoursPerWeek : 40
• Shift : Variable
• Workdays : Sunday - Saturday
• WorkingHoursStart : Variable
• WorkingHoursEnd : Variable

Job

Schedule

Full-time

Job Type : Standard Employee Status : Regular

Employee Group/Union Affiliation

• Job Level : Individual Contributor
• Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
• Department : National RN Residency Program
• Travel : No

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.

For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.

• Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.

• Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.