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Full time 0.9 FTE 12-hr Day shift position located in La Jolla

Elevate your career with Scripps Health, where Compassion Meets Excellence. 

Invest, Empower & Belong. At Scripps Health, your potential is limitless. We're more than a healthcare provider, at Scripps you will join a community where your views, beliefs and values are celebrated. Grow through industry-leading development programs and empower yourself to deliver innovative care. Be a part of an extraordinary team, impacting health in beautiful San Diego.

Why join Scripps Health?

AWARD-WINNING WORKPLACE:

 At Scripps Health, your ambition is empowered, and your abilities are appreciated:

• Nearly a quarter of our employees have been with Scripps Health for over 10 years.
• Scripps is a Great Place to Work Certified company for 2025.
• Scripps Health has been consistently ranked as a top employer for women, millennials, diversity, and as an overall workplace by various national publications.
• Beckers Healthcare ranked Scripps Health on its 2025 list of 150 top places to work in health care.
• We have transitional and professional development programs to create a learning environment that enables you to thrive in your specific field as well as in your overall career.
• Our specialties have been nationally recognized for quality in areas such as cardiovascular care, oncology, orthopedics, geriatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and gastroenterology.

Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla has been providing quality clinical and surgical services since 1924. For over 90 years, Scripps Memorial Hospital has been recognized as a premier medical center for quality patient care and a wide array of medical services. An intensive care unit, cancer care, orthopedic services, as well as women's health care, including OB-GYN and labor and delivery services, are just a portion of what Scripps Memorial has to offer. This nationally recognized Southern California hospital also provides a Level II Trauma center and 24-hour emergency services.  As a designated Magnet Hospital, Scripps Memorial was the first San Diego hospital honored by the American Nursing Association for delivering excellence in patient care.

The Medical Oncology unit prides itself on offering excellence in patient care.  As a Model Care and designated training unit, you will have the opportunity to positively impact new nurses and be part of fostering new grads to be successful. 

  As Clinical Coach, you will demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to changes in nursing practice, standards of care, and dynamic situations.

  Relief charge nurse, clinical coach and preceptor for new graduate nurses during an intensive 40-week program, demonstrates clinical knowledge and technical expertise.

  Promote clinical reasoning, including decision making, critical thinking, and global grasp of the situation. Demonstrate ability to problem-solve and utilize tact and understanding when dealing with patients, team members of other disciplines.

  Be involved in unit committees: monthly skin rounds, unit practice council, new grad pinning ceremonies, and clinical coach meetings.

  Assess patients, identifies needs, and develops care plans accordingly.

  Educate patients and families spanning from admission to discharge.

  Review all patient orders and labs, collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to ensure positive patient outcomes and treatment plans.

  Provide complex medical treatments: blood product transfusion, TPN administration, heparin drip calculation and monitoring, central intravenous line care and medication administration.

  Be skilled in post-surgical and wound care: chest tubes, JP drains, IR drains, woundVAC, various wound dressings, pain management.

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Experience/Specialized Skills: 

• A minimum of two years bedside nursing required.
• Previous experience in a preceptor role preferred.
• Consistently demonstrates advanced skills in each of the following domains. Patient/Family relationship. Compassion.
• Respect for diversity. Rights and dignity. trustworthiness.
• Collaboration with MD/team Interdisciplinary care process.
• Individualized, comprehensive plan of care.
• Patient Advocacy. Critical thinking/Clinical judgment. Competency. Prioritization. Clinical outcomes leadership.
• Influences practice Facilitates the professional development of others.
• Uses participation in professional organizations to impact practice.
• Models professional behavior. Influences the health of the community.
• Shares knowledge gained in professional organizations or programs attended.
• Encourages participation in professional organizations.
• Shapes others clinical understanding through debriefing and role modeling behavior. 

Required Education/Course(s)/Training: 

• CA RN required. 
• AHA BLS.

Preferred:  

• National Certification preferred
• BSN strongly preferred.