RN Emergency Services

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.

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

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.

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