RN Clinical Mentor - ICU - Green

Located on the Torrey Pines Mesa near I-5 and Genesee Avenue in La Jolla, Scripps Green Hospital has served the greater San Diego community since 1977. We provide some of the region’s best care, including several nationally ranked specialty programs.

Scripps Green Hospital is attached to Scripps Clinic Torrey Pines. Together we offer dozens of medical and surgical services, including cancer care, orthopedic surgery and organ transplantation.

This position is for those currently working in the ICU at Green Hospital

Registered Nurse (RN) – Full Time Schedule:

72 hours per 2-week pay period | 12-hour Night shifts (1900-0730)
Location:

Scripps Green ICU (La Jolla/Torrey Pines)

This position is eligible for New Hire and Relocation Incentives up to $7K .

We invite you to join Scripps Green Hospital, a 173-bed facility that has served the La Jolla and greater San Diego communities with distinction since 1977.

• The only transplant hospital for the Scripps system, transplanting liver, kidney and pancreas.
• Our 24-bed mixed ICU poses a great challenge to make sure you keep yourself updated on best practices and different patient populations.
• We are a teaching facility with in-house Intensive Care Pulmonologist that manage our patients closely with nursing collaboration.
• If you want to be part of a team that cares for you as an individual and helps promote growth and knowledge, then you have the right place.
• Our staff are friendly, caring and compassionate that not only cares for our patients/families but for each other as well.
• We have shared leadership in a supportive and collaborative environment.

The RN Clinical Mentor functions primarily as an RN with additional duties, like:

• Takes responsibility for assigned patients during RN relief periods.
• Works collaboratively and educationally with other members of the patient care team to ensure optimal patient care.
• Takes responsibility for education and guidance of Registered Nurses regarding the nursing process, critical thinking, accountability for the plan of care and it's relation to patient outcomes, and communication/collaboration with all team members.
• Functions as a clinical expert, role model, mentor and resource in a designated practice area.
• Works collaboratively with the Charge Nurse, Educator and Manager of that area to develop a learning environment for the caregivers, as well as a service, outcome and care oriented environment for the patients.

The following are not eligible for hiring incentives:

• Internal candidates
• Rehires that left Scripps less than 3 years ago

In order to remain eligible for your retention incentive the following criteria must be met:

• Must remain in original hired FTE Status and Shift (if specified in offer letter)
• Must remain in original department/specialty
• Must remain in original Job Title
• Transfers to other locations will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis and may result in forfeiting remaining incentive bonus unless specifically noted in your offer letter.

Required Qualifications:

• California Registered Nurse License
• Current American Heart Association BLS and ACLS Certification
• Minimum three years experience in an acute care setting preferred as an RN
• Minimum two years of recent RN experience in an adult ICU
• Must be able to speak, read and follow instructions in English.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• NIHHS Stroke Certification within first six months of employment required.
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing or the equivalent preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• CRT Certification
• Organ Transplant experience as an RN

At Scripps Health, you will experience the pride, support and respect of an organization that has been repeatedly recognized as one of the nation’s Top 100 Places to Work.
You’ll be surrounded by people committed to making a difference in the lives of their patients and their teammates. So if you’re open to change, go ahead and unlock your potential.

Position Pay Range: $60.91-$88.18/hour