Job Details

This position is a Hawaii Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Bargaining Unit represented position.
Job Summary:
Provides nursing care and services to patients/families. Provides direction to licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistive personnel. Delegates nursing care according to legal and regulatory guidelines/statutes and organizational policies. Utilizes reasonable judgment in carrying out prescribed medical orders of a practitioner. Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver. Serves as resource nurse. Acts as preceptor and takes charge duties as assigned.
Essential Responsibilities:
* Practices professional nursing and delegates nursing tasks to nursing assistive personnel and provides direction to the LPN as appropriate.
* Utilizes nursing process to deliver care.
* Performs any nursing task requiring nursing knowledge, judgment, and skill.
* Administers medications.
* Teaches LPNs and nursing assistive personnel special tasks of nursing care.
* Verifies staff competency to perform special tasks of nursing care as appropriate.
* Is responsible and accountable for quality of nursing rendered and adequacy of nursing care provided when special tasks are delegated to nursing assistive personnel.
* Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver.
* Serves as resource nurse and acts as preceptor.
* Takes charge duties as assigned.
* Incorporates the KP Vision, Model and Values through out their Nursing Practice.
* Performs administrative and other duties and accepts responsibility as assigned.
* May perform patient care to the extent necessary to maintain clinical expertise, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care on the unit.