[{"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Graduate Nurse Anesthetist (GRNA) /Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) [005]\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nSelects and administers intravenous, spinal and other anesthetics prior to and during surgical or medical procedures as a member of the anesthesia care team and in accordance with Kaiser Permanente policies and procedures. Monitors patient reactions and vital signs during and after anesthesia and takes remedial action when warranted. Submits postoperative report on patient condition, and maintains records of anesthetics administered. Performs procedures outside of the OR, in accordance with KP policies and procedures, established competency, and MD order. GRNA (Non-exempt) CRNA (Exempt).\nEssential Functions:\n- Conducts and/or reviews anesthetic evaluation of patients prior to surgical proceedings, deliveries or other pertinent medical procedures in hospital setting.\n- Consults with anesthesiologists and/or surgeons.\n- Reviews patients charts, including permits, pre-operative medications, lab work, and any other significant variations, such as hearing aids, dentures, contact lenses, or other prostheses.\n- Conducts pre-anesthesia evaluations according to KP's policies and procedures as well as the department policy.\n- Develops the care regimen of assigned patients, reviews the care regimen with the supervising physician, and gains concurrence.\n- Implements the anesthesia plan.\n- Evaluates patients to identify apparent difficulties with airway control, etc.\n- Ensures that all pre-anesthesia evaluations are documented thoroughly according to policies and standards.\n- Explains tests, procedures and disease processes to patients and their family as indicated; explains the major anesthetic risks to patients as requested and documents that the risks are explained to patients.\n- Starts IV solution, administers selected anesthetic, choice of anesthetic consistent with patient safety, surgical need, possible post operative complications, and patients history and conditions.\n- Develops, implements and evaluates according to department policy, the care regimen of assigned patients and manages the patient care based on pre-anesthesia evaluation.\n- Participates with post anesthesia care unit personnel in a patient safety oriented interface when patients are transferred from the surgery suite.\n- Monitors patients' vital signs, such as blood pressure and observes any significant physical changes; informs anesthesiologist and/or surgeon of patient's condition and takes any necessary remedial action such as infant resuscitation when necessary.\n- Prepares and administers drugs as indicated for anesthesia requirements.\n- Keeps current accurate and complete record of procedures performed and patients' conditions immediately prior to the administration of anesthesia according to established standards.\n- Performs procedures done outside of OR, such as intubation, arterial line placement etc, in accordance with policies and procedures, competencies, and physician order.\n- Charts details of procedures done on progress notes.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program.\n- Graduate of an accredited school of anesthesia and eligible to take the certification examination given by the Council on Certification of Nurse Anesthetists.\n- Current California RN License.\n- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and certified in the State of California.\n- Must obtain nurse anesthetist certification for the state of California within 90 days of employment.\n- BLS required.\n- ACLS preferred.\n- Demonstrated understanding of all regulatory requirements and legal consequences of anesthesia care.\n- Proven ability to exercise professional prerogatives based on sound clinical judgment.\n- Demonstrated track record of following the precautionary and preventive measures in giving patient care.\n- Demonstrated ability to work in teams and have proven communications and listening skills.\n- Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in interpersonal relations, customer service, adaptability and change management.\nCRNA - Additional requirements noted below are in addition to the qualifications noted above.\n- Must be eligible for Medicare/Medi-Cal enrollment. Medicare enrollment requires current certification by one of the following organizations: Council on Certification of Nurse Anesthetists or the Council on Recertification of Nurse Anesthetists.", "date_new": "2012-05-19 20:03:34", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/28818940/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Graduate Nurse Anesthetist (GRNA) /Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) [005]", "reqid": "136250", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 28818940}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Cytotechnologist II - Grade 846 - [LAB-12-R035 - ROS CTII #30T] - Temporary\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nUnder the direction of the Pathology Department Manager, performs technological functions to ensure optimal diagnostic quality, utilizing efficient and safe processes. Stains, mounts, and studies cells of human body to detect evidence of cancer and pre-cancerous lesions, hormonal abnormalities, organisms, and other pathological conditions.\nEssential Functions:\n- Prepares microscopic slides from specimens of blood, scrapings, or other body fluids, including Fine Needle Aspirations.\n- Prepares and stains slide to preserve specimen and enhance visibility of cells under microscope.\n- Examines slide under microscope to identify abnormalities in cell structure.\n- Reports Negative Pap smears evaluations as Final Diagnosis. Reports abnormal Pap smear results to Pathologist as preliminary findings.\n- Reports preliminary findings for all Non-GYN cytology results to Pathologist.\n- Performs other related duties as necessary.\n- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- 18 months experience as a Cytotechnologist I plus the demonstrated ability to perform, under minimal supervision, all cytology procedures including staining and screening, in accordance with specifications set by the department head.\n- Bachelor's Degree in science or related fields, or graduated from a committee on allied health education and accreditation (CAHEA) accredited school of cytotechnology or other organization approved by health and human services (HHS); or\n- Certified in cytotechnology by a certification agency approved by HHS; (e.g., American Society of Clinical Pathologists);\n- before September 1, 1992, have successfully completed 2 years in an accredited institution (12 hours in science, 8 of which are in biology) and have 12 months training in an approved school of cytotechnology; or have received 6 months formal training in an approved school and 6 months full-time experience, or\n- before September 1, 1992, have achieved a satisfactory grade in an HHS proficiency test for cytotechnologists;\n- before September 1, 1994, have 2 years full-time experience or equivalent within the preceding 5 years examining slides under the supervision of a physician certified in pathology and before January 1, 1969, be a high school graduate with 6 months cytotechnology training in a laboratory directed by a physician and completed 2 years full-time supervised experience in cytotechnology before 1/1/69; or\n- On or before September 1, 1994, have 2 years full-time experience or equivalent within preceding 5 years in the U.S. and on or before September 1, 1995, have either graduated from a CAHEA-approved school or be certified as a cytotechnologist.\n- Valid/Current California Cytologist license required\n- Ability to accurately describe cytologic conditions and provide appropriate differential diagnoses in writing.\n- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.\n- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.\n- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.\n\nSchedule: This is a temporary position. Expected length of employment is up to 90-days from date of hire.", "date_new": "2012-05-19 20:03:27", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/28818930/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Cytotechnologist II - Grade 846 - [LAB-12-R035 - ROS CTII #30T] - Temporary", "reqid": "135137", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 28818930}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Staff Nurse II - Inpatient Nursing [5201492]\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nThe Staff Nurse (SN) II is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame. The SN II provides care to patients via the therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment and instrumentation, and other health care team members.\nEssential Functions:\n- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.\n- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care that is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.\n- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.\n- Establishes priorities or patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.\n- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.\n- Identifies patient/family learning needs and implements appropriate measures.\n- Documents patient care and unit activities in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.\n- Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.\n- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified within the institution.\n- Performs efficiently in emergency patient care situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.\n- Demonstrates sound knowledge base and actions in the care of a designated patient population.\n- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.\n- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and Department of Nursing personnel.\n- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.\n- Participates in unit and Department Performance Improvement activities as directed.\n- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of health care team members.\n- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.\n- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.\n- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families. Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.\n- Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.\n- Ability to navigate in a windows environment, utilizing a mouse and the ability to learn electronic medical record system application.\n- Identifies and solves problems effectively.\n- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.\n- Perform other related duties as necessary.\n- This job motivates and provides work direction (direct, check, review, assign, organize and coordination) to LVN's, Nurse Attendants, unit assistants, etc., but does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Minimum of 6 months experience. See job duties for specific experience requirements for specialty units.\n- CRITICAL CARE - One year recent (within the last 3 years) experience in Critical Care. Current ACLS certification required. Completion of a Critical Care course preferred.\n- SPECIALITY AREAS - If no qualified candidate, may be willing to train in the specialty areas listed below. Candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certifications within 6 months of hire or transfer into unit.\n- High School Diploma/GED.\n- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience or Graduate of registered nursing and either 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as an licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation or currently enrolled in an accredited entry level MSN program and has completed pre-licensure requirements to practice nursing.\n- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in California.\n- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for health care providers.\n- Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practice.\n- Demonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers).\n- Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English).\n- Good interpersonal skills.\n- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.", "date_new": "2012-05-18 19:46:57", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/28800226/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Staff Nurse II - Inpatient Nursing [5201492]", "reqid": "135105", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 28800226}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Staff Nurse II - Inpatient Nursing [5220247] - Temporary\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nThe Staff Nurse (SN) II is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame. The SN II provides care to patients via the therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment and instrumentation, and other health care team members.\nEssential Functions:\n- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.\n- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care that is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.\n- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.\n- Establishes priorities or patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.\n- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.\n- Identifies patient/family learning needs and implements appropriate measures.\n- Documents patient care and unit activities in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.\n- Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.\n- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified within the institution.\n- Performs efficiently in emergency patient care situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.\n- Demonstrates sound knowledge base and actions in the care of a designated patient population.\n- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.\n- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and Department of Nursing personnel.\n- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.\n- Participates in unit and Department Performance Improvement activities as directed.\n- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of health care team members.\n- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.\n- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.\n- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families. Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.\n- Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.\n- Ability to navigate in a windows environment, utilizing a mouse and the ability to learn electronic medical record system application.\n- Identifies and solves problems effectively.\n- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.\n- Perform other related duties as necessary.\n- This job motivates and provides work direction (direct, check, review, assign, organize and coordination) to LVN's, Nurse Attendants, unit assistants, etc., but does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Minimum of 6 months experience. See job duties for specific experience requirements for specialty units.\n- CRITICAL CARE - One year recent (within the last 3 years) experience in Critical Care. Current ACLS certification required. Completion of a Critical Care course preferred.\n- SPECIALITY AREAS - If no qualified candidate, may be willing to train in the specialty areas listed below. Candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certifications within 6 months of hire or transfer into unit.\n- High School Diploma/GED.\n- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience or Graduate of registered nursing and either 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as an licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation or currently enrolled in an accredited entry level MSN program and has completed pre-licensure requirements to practice nursing.\n- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in California.\n- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for health care providers.\n- Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practice.\n- Demonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers).\n- Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English).\n- Good interpersonal skills.\n- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.\n\nSchedule:\nWeek I: Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Sat\nWeek II: Sun, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri\n\n++This is a temporary position. Expected length of employment up to 90-days from date of hire.++", "date_new": "2012-05-18 19:46:57", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/28800227/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Staff Nurse II - Inpatient Nursing [5220247] - Temporary", "reqid": "135107", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 28800227}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Staff Nurse II - Inpatient Nursing [5220248] - Temporary\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nThe Staff Nurse (SN) II is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame. The SN II provides care to patients via the therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment and instrumentation, and other health care team members.\nEssential Functions:\n- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.\n- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care that is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.\n- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.\n- Establishes priorities or patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.\n- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.\n- Identifies patient/family learning needs and implements appropriate measures.\n- Documents patient care and unit activities in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.\n- Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.\n- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified within the institution.\n- Performs efficiently in emergency patient care situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.\n- Demonstrates sound knowledge base and actions in the care of a designated patient population.\n- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.\n- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and Department of Nursing personnel.\n- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.\n- Participates in unit and Department Performance Improvement activities as directed.\n- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of health care team members.\n- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.\n- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.\n- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families. Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.\n- Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.\n- Ability to navigate in a windows environment, utilizing a mouse and the ability to learn electronic medical record system application.\n- Identifies and solves problems effectively.\n- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.\n- Perform other related duties as necessary.\n- This job motivates and provides work direction (direct, check, review, assign, organize and coordination) to LVN's, Nurse Attendants, unit assistants, etc., but does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Minimum of 6 months experience. See job duties for specific experience requirements for specialty units.\n- CRITICAL CARE - One year recent (within the last 3 years) experience in Critical Care. Current ACLS certification required. Completion of a Critical Care course preferred.\n- SPECIALITY AREAS - If no qualified candidate, may be willing to train in the specialty areas listed below. Candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certifications within 6 months of hire or transfer into unit.\n- High School Diploma/GED.\n- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience or Graduate of registered nursing and either 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as an licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation or currently enrolled in an accredited entry level MSN program and has completed pre-licensure requirements to practice nursing.\n- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in California.\n- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for health care providers.\n- Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practice.\n- Demonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers).\n- Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English).\n- Good interpersonal skills.\n- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.\n\nSchedule:\nWeek I: Sun, Mon,Wed, Thurs, Fri\nWeek II: Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Sat\n\n++This is a temporary position. Expected length of employment up to 90-days from date of hire.++", "date_new": "2012-05-18 19:46:57", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/28800228/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Staff Nurse II - Inpatient Nursing [5220248] - Temporary", "reqid": "135111", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 28800228}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Staff Nurse II - Inpatient Nursing [5220249] - Temporary\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nThe Staff Nurse (SN) II is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame. The SN II provides care to patients via the therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment and instrumentation, and other health care team members.\nEssential Functions:\n- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.\n- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care that is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.\n- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.\n- Establishes priorities or patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.\n- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.\n- Identifies patient/family learning needs and implements appropriate measures.\n- Documents patient care and unit activities in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.\n- Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.\n- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified within the institution.\n- Performs efficiently in emergency patient care situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.\n- Demonstrates sound knowledge base and actions in the care of a designated patient population.\n- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.\n- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and Department of Nursing personnel.\n- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.\n- Participates in unit and Department Performance Improvement activities as directed.\n- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of health care team members.\n- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.\n- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.\n- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families. Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.\n- Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.\n- Ability to navigate in a windows environment, utilizing a mouse and the ability to learn electronic medical record system application.\n- Identifies and solves problems effectively.\n- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.\n- Perform other related duties as necessary.\n- This job motivates and provides work direction (direct, check, review, assign, organize and coordination) to LVN's, Nurse Attendants, unit assistants, etc., but does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Minimum of 6 months experience. See job duties for specific experience requirements for specialty units.\n- CRITICAL CARE - One year recent (within the last 3 years) experience in Critical Care. Current ACLS certification required. Completion of a Critical Care course preferred.\n- SPECIALITY AREAS - If no qualified candidate, may be willing to train in the specialty areas listed below. Candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certifications within 6 months of hire or transfer into unit.\n- High School Diploma/GED.\n- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience or Graduate of registered nursing and either 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as an licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation or currently enrolled in an accredited entry level MSN program and has completed pre-licensure requirements to practice nursing.\n- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in California.\n- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for health care providers.\n- Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practice.\n- Demonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers).\n- Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English).\n- Good interpersonal skills.\n- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.\n\nSchedule:\nWeek I: Mon,Tues, Wed, Thurs, Sat\nWeek II: Sun,Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri\n\n++This is a temporary position. Expected length of employment up to 90-days from date of hire.++", "date_new": "2012-05-18 19:46:57", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/28800229/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Staff Nurse II - Inpatient Nursing [5220249] - Temporary", "reqid": "135112", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 28800229}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Team Lead Correspondence Center\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nPosition(s) located w/in the Correspondence Center(s). Responsible for providing supervision, advice & counsel to Senior Case Managers & Case Managers for Medicare or Commercial grievance and/or appeals to ensure accuracy, timeliness, quality of work, & compliance w/ all applicable regulatory agency guidelines & directives, & w/ policies & procedures. Works in conjunction w/ Assistant Director & key stakeholders in support of grievance & appeal case management, including committee reports, self-audits & other ad-hoc reports.\nEssential Functions:\n- Under direction of the Member Services Assistant Director, participates in the management of the organization's Grievance, Appeal & Independent External Review process.\n- Includes investigation of all appeals & collection of appropriate data.\n- Works directly w/ Case Managers, Senior Case Managers, UM, SNF, Member Services, HPRS & other clinical & administrative leadership to investigate & facilitate resolution of complex & high profile member requests & appeals.\n- Contributes significantly and/or provides technical leadership to high visibility projects to identify & resolve issues of strategic importance to the Member Services organization.\n- Interfaces regularly w/ senior management to produce timely & valuable results.\n- Provides advice & counsel to Senior Case Managers & Case Managers for Medicare or Commercial grievance and/or appeals.\n- Responds to members, physicians & authorized representatives regarding the Health Plan's determination.\n- Collaborates w/ clinical & administrative staff w/in the Plan (Northern & Southern California Regional offices & Local Facilities) to investigate complex & highly visible and/or sensitive member requests & appeals.\n- Maintains current knowledge of regulatory & policy changes affecting Medicare & Commercial patients.\n- Works closely w/ Utilization Management (UM), Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF), Durable Medical Equipment (DME), Benefits, & other internal staff & entities to investigate member requests & appeals.\n- Identifies trends & makes recommendations for process/system improvements.\n- Prepares appeals for external independent medical review & other state & federal governments.\n- Ensures appeals are processed in accordance w/ regulations, compliance standards, policies & procedures.\n- Meets timeframes for performance while balancing the need to produce high quality work related to complex & sensitive member issues, including documentation.\n- Mentors & serves as a consultant to Area Health Plan staff & other local & divisional entities requiring expertise & advice regarding compliance to regulatory requirements or problem solving.\n- Participates in departmental meetings, training & unit self-audits, as requested.\n- Acts as a liaison, problem-solver, & negotiator to achieve resolution on member requests & appeals.\n- Produces or oversees development of written materials for various peer groups & high-level audiences.\n- Plans & facilitates meetings.\n- Makes formal presentations to various high-level audiences.\n- Assists, as needed, in planning & coordinating w/ other ongoing teams & projects to maximize effectiveness.\n- Participates in the development & management of the department.\n- Involves coaching, recruiting, & conducting performance reviews for analysts, administrative staff, & other departmental activities.\n- Supervises Case Managers.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Supervisory experience preferred.\n- Experience related to regulatory compliance in healthcare or related field preferred.\n- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business administration, nursing, economics, health care administration, operations research, public health administration, and/or other related field.\n- Master's degree desirable.\n- Personal transportation required for local Service Area travel.\n- Demonstrated excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication and presentation skills.\n- Knowledge of member complaints, grievances and appeals processing required.\n- Strong analytical skills.\n- Demonstrated ability to work in a team-based, collaborative environment.\n- Demonstrated ability to work independently and develop creative solutions to ongoing issues/challenges.\n- Demonstrated ability to determine key business issues and develop appropriate action plans from multidisciplinary perspectives.\n- Proficient in conflict resolution, group interaction and team building.\n- Ability to work with peers in self-managed teams to meet deadlines. Independent decision making ability and high-level assessment and negotiation skills required.\n- Demonstrated conflict resolution and mediation skills with ability to secure action from persons outside their supervision.\n- Ability to use sound judgment and to handle potentially charged issues independently but with the knowledge and ability to escalate and ask for help when needed.\n- Ability to multi-task and manage time in order to perform well on long-term projects while being flexible enough to assimilate short term projects on an ongoing basis.\n- Demonstrated ability to work calmly in stressful environment involving patients, family members, and advocates.\n- May require some travel to the Service Areas and/or Regional offices in California.\n- Strong computer skills in Microsoft systems, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, with knowledge of database systems preferred.\n- Demonstrated ability in handling a high case load of complex issues preferred.\n- Competent working knowledge of Kaiser Permanente Health Plan benefit plan/contracts/systems strongly preferred.\n- Working knowledge or experience with audit techniques, concepts and standards.\n- Must be able to work in a labor/management partnership environment.", "date_new": "2012-05-16 18:37:26", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/28736523/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Team Lead Correspondence Center", "reqid": "135450", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 28736523}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Senior Case Manager\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nResponsible for handling the review process for grievances, appeals, or denials including investigating, preparing and presenting appropriate materials for review. Resolves member concerns in partnership with internal and external departments while ensuring compliance with regulatory rules and timeframes within mandated timeframes and compliance.\n\nEssential Functions:\n- Participates in handling the grievances, appeals/denials process.\n- Ensures appeals are processed in accordance with regulations, compliance standards and policies and procedures.\n- Meets timeframes for performance while balancing the need to produce high quality work related to complex and sensitive member issues.\n- Investigates all issues, including collection of appropriate data, preparation and presentation of documents to decision makers.\n- Informs members or their authorized representatives, physicians and other stakeholders of Health Plan's determinations.\n- Collaborates with internal staff, other MS Departments, managers and physicians to seek resolution on issues and cases affecting member while ensuring compliance, documentation and enhancing members' experience.\n- Ensures integrity of departmental database by thorough, timely and accurate entry.\n- Mentors others in preparation for positions of increased responsibility.\n- Participates in departmental meetings, trainings and audits as requested.\n- Answer questions and manages members on existing/open cases.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Bachelors' degree or a minimum of four (4) years equivalent experience in a complex HMO or customer service setting.\n- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.\n- Demonstrated ability to compose high quality, detailed written communication.\n- Ability to identify issues, gather and assess information.\n- Ability to prioritize work and ensure all compliance elements are met.\n- Demonstrated conflict resolution and mediation skills with ability to secure action from multiple stakeholders.\n- Ability to use sound judgment and to handle complex issues independently, but with the knowledge and ability to escalate and ask for help when needed.\n- Ability to multitask and manage time in order to perform well on long term projects while being flexible enough to assimilate short term projects on an ongoing basis.\n- Ability to work with peers in self managed teams.\n- Knowledge of member grievance and appeals processing preferred.\n- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.", "date_new": "2012-05-16 18:37:18", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/28736516/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Senior Case Manager", "reqid": "135396", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 28736516}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Senior Case Manager\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nResponsible for handling the review process for grievances, appeals, or denials including investigating, preparing and presenting appropriate materials for review. Resolves member concerns in partnership with internal and external departments while ensuring compliance with regulatory rules and timeframes within mandated timeframes and compliance.\n\nEssential Functions:\n- Participates in handling the grievances, appeals/denials process.\n- Ensures appeals are processed in accordance with regulations, compliance standards and policies and procedures.\n- Meets timeframes for performance while balancing the need to produce high quality work related to complex and sensitive member issues.\n- Investigates all issues, including collection of appropriate data, preparation and presentation of documents to decision makers.\n- Informs members or their authorized representatives, physicians and other stakeholders of Health Plan's determinations.\n- Collaborates with internal staff, other MS Departments, managers and physicians to seek resolution on issues and cases affecting member while ensuring compliance, documentation and enhancing members' experience.\n- Ensures integrity of departmental database by thorough, timely and accurate entry.\n- Mentors others in preparation for positions of increased responsibility.\n- Participates in departmental meetings, trainings and audits as requested.\n- Answer questions and manages members on existing/open cases.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Bachelors' degree or a minimum of four (4) years equivalent experience in a complex HMO or customer service setting.\n- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.\n- Demonstrated ability to compose high quality, detailed written communication.\n- Ability to identify issues, gather and assess information.\n- Ability to prioritize work and ensure all compliance elements are met.\n- Demonstrated conflict resolution and mediation skills with ability to secure action from multiple stakeholders.\n- Ability to use sound judgment and to handle complex issues independently, but with the knowledge and ability to escalate and ask for help when needed.\n- Ability to multitask and manage time in order to perform well on long term projects while being flexible enough to assimilate short term projects on an ongoing basis.\n- Ability to work with peers in self managed teams.\n- Knowledge of member grievance and appeals processing preferred.\n- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.", "date_new": "2012-05-16 18:37:18", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/28736515/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Senior Case Manager", "reqid": "135399", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 28736515}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Sonographer II-On/Call- Roseville, CA\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nUnder the direction of the Imaging Services Director and Chief of Radiology/Imaging Services, or other Clinical Service Director where applicable, produces two-dimensional ultrasonic recordings of internal organs for use by Physician in diagnosis of disease and study of malfunction of organs. Performs technological functions to ensure optimal diagnostic quality of patient care utilizing efficient and safe processes.\nEssential Functions:\n- Exhibiting a high degree of tact, courtesy, and poise, explains procedures to patient to reduce anxieties and obtain patient cooperation.\n- Prepares and positions patient for examination.\n- Selects equipment for use in ultrasound setup according to specifications of examination.\n- Selects transducer and adjusts equipment controls according to organ to be examined, depth of field, and other specifications of test.\n- Starts equipment that produces images of internal organs and records diagnostic data on magnetic tape, computer disk, strip printout, or film.\n- Moves transducer, by hand, over specified area of body and observes sound wave display screen to monitor quality of ultrasonic pattern produced.\n- Photographs images of organs shown on display module or removes strip printout from equipment to obtain permanent record of internal examination.\n- Keys test data and patient information into computer of ultrasound equipment to maintain record of test results.\n- Orients new hires.\n- Performs other related duties as necessary.\n- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- High School Diploma/GED.\n- BLS required.\n- Must have two ARDMS (American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers) in any specialty.\n- NT certification is required to perform genetic screening for Prenatal Diagnostic Centers. Applicants may be hired without certification, but will be required to obtain it within 90 days of hire.\n- Must demonstrate competency and perform the specialty routinely.", "date_new": "2012-05-16 18:37:16", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/28736504/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Sonographer II-On/Call- Roseville, CA", "reqid": "134503", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 28736504}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Sr Staff Assistant [CEAA322] - Temporary\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nUnder limited supervision, supports the head of a department by providing advanced level administrative support and general office duties of a highly responsible and confidential. Frequently handles highly confidential and sensitive information and files. Communicates with contacts at all levels in and outside of the organization. Typically reports to a director or vice president.\nEssential Functions:\n- REPRESENTATIVE ACTIVITIES: Organizes and expedites flow of work for the manager's office and the department in accordance to manager's method of operation and the operations and procedures of the department and organization.\n- Initiates any follow-up action.\n- Receives and screens telephone calls, letters, and/or visitors.\n- Answers routine questions and provides information related to general department operations, policies and procedures using discretion for matters pertaining to confidential or sensitive information.\n- Determines when to appropriately refer inquiries, requests or issues to managers or department staff members and follows up to ensure resolution on behalf of manager or department.\n- Schedules appointments and makes arrangements for meetings, conferences, and travel.\n- Organizes and prepares routine correspondence for the department manager, as well as complex documents including reports, spreadsheets, presentations and various forms of communications documents requiring the integration of multiple office technology and software applications.\n- May act as the department's office resource for word processing and spreadsheet application.\n- Prepares special reports that require gathering, comparing and summarizing data.\n- Organizes and maintains files, correspondence and records.\n- Handles and frequently accesses highly confidential and sensitive information.\n- Assists with tracking the department budget.\n- Tracks and compiles expenses.\n- Prepares monthly expense reports.\n- May address issues to department manager.\n- Performs other related duties following standard office routine, practices and procedures or instructions.\n\nSecondary Functions:\nResponsible for managing education continuing education files and maintaining database. Prepares notifications for classes, maintains registration, and confirmation of attendance. Assists in the preparation of class educational handouts. Maintains confidentiality of files. Coordinates scheduling of new hire employees into PCS Orientation and KP HealthConnect classes. Assist with the management of the HealthStream Education system.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Five (5) plus years of experience performing administrative support functions for department managers.\n- Experience in coordinating and providing support to large complex projects.\n- High School Diploma or GED.\n- BA/BS preferred.\n- Excellent customer service.\n- Lotus Notes skills preferred.\n- Demonstrated oral and written communication skills required.\n- Advanced level proficiency with e-mail software, MicroSoft Word and with any of the following office technology (required only if applicable to department's needs): PowerPoint. Excel or Access.\n- Must be able to work in a Labor-Management Partnership environment.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n- Experience in working with an Education Department.\n\nSkills Testing: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.\n\n++ This is a temporary position. Expected length of employment up to December 31, 2012.++", "date_new": "2012-05-10 19:06:47", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/28606727/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Sr Staff Assistant [CEAA322] - Temporary", "reqid": "134946", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 28606727}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Quality Specialist [RM1]\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nThis position supervises & monitors one or more of the following activities, continuing medical education, quality assurance, medical staff services & quality projects.\nEssential Functions:\n- Supervises the daily quality activities, ensuring timely & accurate data collection, and follow up of issues & quality of work\n-Coaches staff & ensures their competency\n- Coordinates & facilities staff support to various committees (e.g., quality, accreditation) which includes agenda preparation & monitoring of outstanding issues\n- Provides reports based on timely & accurate data collection, identifies trends & monitors issues\n- Develops implements & monitors quality department's policies & procedures; ensures they are in compliance w/ The Joint Commission, NCQA, CME, federal, state & local requirements\n- Assists in developing & revising QA monitors to meet accreditation/regulatory standards\n- Monitors the budgets, researches variances, & identifies opportunities to reduce costs\n- Develops, implements, coordinates, & evaluates the CME programs, credentialing & privileges for permanent or temporary physicians & allied health providers\n- Assists in preparation of educational materials & course objectives\n- Maintains link between medical staff affairs & quality improvement, risk management, and continuing medical staff education\n- Coordinates & prepares for CME, accreditation, licensing, & quality surveys/audits\n- Maintains & monitors the various quality databases which may include quality reviews, CME, credentials & privileges, & provider profiles\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Significant (typically 2-3 yrs) quality improvement or accreditation experience required\n- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a health care related field or business administration\n- Previous supervisory experience recommended\n- Ability to perform statistical analysis\n- Current knowledge of The Joint Commission, NCQA, federal, state, & local requirements\n- Knowledge & experience in application of adult learning theory in program development\n- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment", "date_new": "2012-04-07 22:13:43", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/27727594/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Quality Specialist [RM1]", "reqid": "130414", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 27727594}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Manager Infection Prevention [01]\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nManages the medical center Infection Prevention Program to ensure activities are directed toward preventing and decreasing healthcare associated infections and improving patient safety across the continuum of care (including hospitals and associated medical office buildings). Participates in the medical center's continuous survey readiness program to maintain compliance with regulatory standards.\nEssential Functions:\n- Provides strategic support to achieve high level of quality performance through collaboration with local leaders and regional initiatives and standardization to improve health.\n- Accountable for the annual development, implementation, and evaluation of the Infection Prevention goals and objectives, plan, and risk assessment to reduce and control the risk of health care associated infections.\n- Collaborates with leadership team to ensure compliance with regulatory and accrediting agency requirements, timely and accurate reporting to Department of Public Health and other external agencies as appropriate.\n- Provides leadership to physician leaders, patient care service leaders and quality leaders to improve patient safety.\n- Provides consultation to medical center leaders and staff. Actively participates in leadership meetings to ensure alignment of priorities and strategies.\n- Provides direct supervision to Infection Prevention Coordinator(s) and Associate.\n- Accountable for departmental budget.\n- Co-chairs the Infection Control Committee with the Infectious Disease Chief to provide leadership which will ensure surveillance activities and improvement plans are analyzed, implemented and reported to leadership.\n- Collaborates with Occupational/Employee Health to institute measures to protect and prevent healthcare workers from injuries due to communicable diseases.\n- Collaborates with Facility Services to ensure an integrated Environment of Care program.\n- Keeps abreast of current scientific literature, recommendations, guidelines, and regulatory requirements which may impact the Infection Prevention Program.\n- Kaiser Permanente conducts compensation reviews of positions on a routine basis. At any time, Kaiser Permanente reserves the right to reevaluate and change job descriptions, or to change such positions from salaried to hourly pay status. Such changes are generally implemented only after notice is given to affected employees.\n\nSecondary Functions:\nAt one medical center (including all associated ambulatory care departments/sites and other non-acute patient care sites), accountable for the management of a Infection Prevention and Control Program across the continuum of care, developing and achieving Infection Control goals and objectives, planning, developing, implementing, delivering, evaluating and continuously improving infection prevention and control services. In a facility with a staff of one or more IC Coordinators and/or IC Associates, responsible for program design, planning, implementation, evaluation and for directing the work of the IC Coordinator(s) and any other assigned staff, for serving as the content expert/consultant in Infection Control and Prevention for one entire medical center and associated ambulatory care areas. Also accountable for collection and analysis of healthcare associated infection data, development and presentation of reports and educational programs for personnel and patients as needed, ensuring provision of requested KP patient information to the Department of Health Services, recommending to local leadership/Risk Management when Public Health/Dept of Health should be notified in the event of an outbreak, management of infection prevention and control practices, assisting client departments in survey readiness and preparation for regulatory standard reviews, accreditation and licensure surveys in both the acute and ambulatory care areas (e.g. The Joint Commission, Cal-OSHA, DHS, etc.).\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Minimum three (3) years of infection prevention experience in an acute health care facility.\n- Three (3) to five (5) years of progressively more responsible related work experience with two (2) years current management experience in assigned service area preferred; or completion of management training program required.\n- Bachelor's degree in a health related field such as Nursing, Epidemiology, Microbiology or Public Health.\n- Master's degree preferred in Nursing, Epidemiology, Microbiology, Public Health or other discipline.\n- Current Certification in Infection Control (CIC) preferred, or must become certified within the first year of hire.\n- Valid California license or certification in clinical healthcare discipline preferred, such as nursing, clinical laboratory science, or public health.\n- Demonstrated leadership skills.\n- Demonstrated skills in program management, project management, time management, and/or resource management.\n- Demonstrated ability to influence change.\n- Demonstrated skills in collaborative team work.\n- Demonstrated problem-solving, analytic, and decision making skills.\n- Demonstrated written and oral communication skills.\n- Demonstrated ability to develop and present educational programs.\n- Demonstrated ability to apply adult learning principles.\n- Demonstrated computer software application skills such as Lotus Notes, Words, Excel, and Powerpoint.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n- Minimum of two years (usually) experience as an Infection Control Coordinator.\n- Minimum of four years relevant clinical experience in an acute care hospital, utilizing knowledge of medical andsurgical procedures as well as techniques and procedures involved in patient care, treatment and management.\n- Demonstrated knowledge of microbiology, laboratory procedures, adult education, aseptic technique and epidemiological techniques.\n- Demonstrated ability to comprehend and utilize epidemiological/public health data and statistical methods, screen and interpret data results for variations and/or errors.", "date_new": "2012-04-07 22:13:43", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/27727596/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Manager Infection Prevention [01]", "reqid": "130427", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 27727596}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Anesthesia Technical Assistant - Grade 520 [Tech 005]\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nUnder direct supervision of the Anesthesiologist and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), sets up, troubleshoots, and provides general maintenance on all anesthesia equipment.\nEssential Functions:\n- On a daily basis and in accordance with department standards, maintains and services all electronic and mechanical equipment used by Anesthesia Department personnel.\n- Sets-up transducers, calibrates and zeros monitors.\n- Assembles pediatric and adult ventilator circuits.\n- Prepares procedural equipment such as the CVP, arterial line, Swan-Ganz and routine intravenous lines.\n- Operates, calibrates and performs routine maintenance on a variety of technical equipment used in the operating room such as the Drager and/or Narkomed anesthesia machines, HP Monitors, pulse oximeter and rapid infusion/transfusion systems.\n- Identifies malfunctioning equipment, troubleshoots equipment problems and refers more serious equipment problems to appropriate technical repair personnel when there are no established guidelines.\n- Assists in the establishment and maintenance of a regular schedule of preventive maintenance and calibration of monitors utilized in the administration of anesthesia, including the BP physiological monitors, Datascope, Propac monitor and Nellcor pulse oximeters.\n- Assists in positioning and supporting patients for regional anesthesia procedures such as spinal and epidurals.\n- Supports the Anesthesia Provider during insertion of arterial catheter lines and internal jugular catheters.\n- Applies monitoring devices to the patient and operates all common physiological monitors (Datex, pulse oximeter, C02 monitor, BP monitors cuffs).\n- Removes and disposes of all relevant supplies and equipment following use, exchanging soiled for clean parts between cases and restocking room carts with supplies and drugs.\n- Assists in monitoring and ordering supplies for the department.\n- Maintains an inventory in the main anesthesia workroom.\n- Orders from the pharmacy and stocks all 'non scheduled drugs'.\n- May order and stock 'non-scheduled drugs.'\n- Cleans and decontaminates equipment per Sterile Processing Department protocols; this includes the disassembly of equipment and sterilization in accordance to the Center for Disease Control guidelines to prevent the spread of infectious and contagious diseases.\n- Performs related duties as assigned.\n- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Hospital experience with an understanding of the function and operation of various kinds of anesthesia equipment.\n- High School Diploma/GED.\n- BLS required.\n- American Society of Anesthesia Technologist and Technicians, preferred.\n- Working knowledge of Anesthesia department operations.\n- Demonstrated knowledge of basic instruments and treatment procedures commonly used in the administration of anesthesia.\n- Demonstrated understanding of basic anatomy.\n- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos.\n- Ability to write simple correspondence.\n- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients and other incumbents of the organization.\n- Must possess an understanding of aseptic and infection control.\n- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.", "date_new": "2012-04-06 05:09:07", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/27687463/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Anesthesia Technical Assistant - Grade 520 [Tech 005]", "reqid": "129336", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 27687463}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: MRI Technologist II - Grade 870 [ROS.MRI-14] - Temporary\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nOperates magnetic resonance imaging equipment to produce cross-sectional images (photographs) of patient's body for diagnostic purposes. Under the direction of the Chief of Radiology and the Imaging Services Director, with latitude for independent judgment, ingenuity and initiative, performs related technological functions to ensure optimal diagnostic quality of patient care utilizing efficient and safe processes.\nEssential Functions:\n- Performs patient studies according to set protocol including placing specified coil close to area of interest.\n- Operates imaging and other equipment devices so that quality diagnostic services are provided, including keying commands to specify scan sequences into computer, adjusting transmitters and receivers, and keying in data on keyboard of camera to photograph images.\n- Interviews patient to explain magnetic resonance imaging procedures to address patient concerns and exhibits a high degree of tact, courtesy and poise when interacting with patients, staff, and visitors.\n- Ensures patient and staff safety, including explaining safety protocol, requesting removal of hazardous metal objects, alerting staff of danger or carrying metal around magnet, and monitoring patients via closed circuit TV.\n- Orients new hires and trains MRI Technologist, students, trainees.\n- Trains MRI Technologists I in MRI procedures.\n- May be required to direct, check and train other MRI employees in absence of MRI Supervising Technologist.\n- Perform other related duties as necessary.\n- -This job has no supervisory responsibilities.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Have two (2) years of regular (twenty (20) hours or more per week) continuous recent experience as a MRI Technologist and be fully proficient in all the duties required of a MRI Technologist II to the satisfaction of the department manager.\n- High School Diploma/GED.\n- California Venipuncture Certificate (must be obtained with 6 months of hire).\n- CRT - California Radiologic Technologist License\n- BLS.\n- Must have demonstrated proficiency in teaching other Technologists.\n- May be required to direct, check and train other MRI employee.\n- Must be fully proficient in MRI to the full satisfaction of the department manager and have knowledge of the required protocols in performing complex MRI procedures.\n- Effective oral and written communications skills.\n- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other incumbents of the organization.\n- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.\n- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.\n\nSchedule: This is a temporary position. Expected length of employment up to 90-days from date of hire.", "date_new": "2012-04-05 20:27:41", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/27671069/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "MRI Technologist II - Grade 870 [ROS.MRI-14] - Temporary", "reqid": "128936", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 27671069}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Chief Nursing Officer [NA101]\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nDevelops strong collaborative leadership relationships with TPMG. This role provides strategic leadership as the patient care executive position responsible for all nursing and other designated patient care functions/services within the hospital organization. The Chief Nursing Officer provides direction, leadership, planning, organization and general management for all aspects of patient care ensuring integration of services and compliance with long range objectives and strategies, including the provision of excellent quality services and responsible fiscal management. This role represents nursing/patient care on the hospital executive leadership team, at the medical executive committee and medical staff committees. The Chief Nursing Officer has oversight for the professional practice of nursing and the provision of nursing care in all licensed or surveyable areas of the medical facility. Oversight is defined as having responsibility for regulatory, quality, service, resources, nursing staff competency and evaluation of the overall delivery of nursing care.\n\nEssential Functions:\n- Develops effective working relationships with key stakeholders and operational leaders. Manages organizational relationships in a way that builds and maintains a climate of trust and inspires commitment from others to achieve organization goals.\n- Works collaboratively with labor partners to achieve organization goals and objectives.\n- Maintains strong collaborative relationship with medical director and medical staff leadership and coordinates with medical group partners to provide for the seamless transition of patients across the continuum of care.\n- In conjunction with medical facility leadership groups, determines the most cost-effective and efficient levels of patient care clinically and operationally; implements such locally. Participates in hospital strategic planning process and collaborates with facility management team and the medical staff to develop the overall financial plan for the medical facility.\n- Assures short and long-range financial goals are met by establishing and controlling the budgets. Monitors and assesses trends, external environment and internal practices; makes recommendations to develop/adjust strategy to meet the changing business and market conditions.\n- Develops and implements quality and utilization standards for patient care services to ensure coordinated plans of treatment, delivery of services that meet members needs, and the cost-effective utilization of necessary services. Utilizes and maximizes effective systems for resource management in nursing, including patient acuity and staffing applications.\n- Develops a succession plan for nursing leadership.\n- Guides the operational implementation of quality improvement initiatives using innovation and evidence-based practice. Generates and encourages innovation and creative solutions to issues or problems. Is able and willing to solve problems from various points of view and make difficult decisions.\n- Serves as change agent when patient care work/workflow is redesigned.\n- Understands, articulates, and ensures compliance with patient care standards reflected in federal and state regulation, The Joint Commission, California Nurse Practice Act, and organizational policies and procedures.\n- Understands the impact of legislation at the state and federal level on nursing and the organization.\n- Ensures that nursing practice and clinical policies and procedures are reviewed and updated and are consistent with current standards and evidence-based practice.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- 7 to 10 Years of progressive experience in clinical, management and leadership roles within hospital operations.\n- Academic degree in nursing required (Bachelor's or Master's degree). Master's degree in Nursing or related field required (Health Administration,\nBusiness, Public Health, or management).\n- National certification in nursing administration or advanced nursing administration required within 3 years for an incumbent Chief Nursing Officer assuming position, and within 1 year of a newly hired Chief Nursing Officer assuming position.\n- Demonstrated skills to work in a union environment.\n- Active and current registered nurse license in the state of California.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n- Extensive (typically 10+ years) progressive experience in clinical, management and leadership roles in a multifaceted health care system and multi-service provider setting.\n- Executive level communication, presentation, leadership, analytical and problem solving skills.\n- Ability to lead and manage through influence and change.\n- Thorough knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations such as: Knox-Keene Act, Federal HMO Act, JACHO, and all applicable Medicare and Medi-Cal regulations.\n-Significant leadership experience in regulatory surveys.\n- Proven ability to deliver results for meeting organizational objectives.", "date_new": "2012-03-31 19:57:16", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/27540399/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Chief Nursing Officer [NA101]", "reqid": "126472", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 27540399}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Assistant Administrator Director Laboratory-Roseville, CA\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nAssists Laboratory Manager in managing Laboratory functions in a medical center. Supervises all laboratory activities. Ensures staff provides high quality, accessible, cost effective care, and patient focused services to members across the continuums, which comply with local, state, and federal requirements. Implements and maintains clinical practice standards, budgets, and staff development.\nEssential Functions:\n- Oversees laboratory operation. Ensures staff provides the quality of care and are in compliance with CAP, CLIA, The Joint Commission, AABB, NCQA, Title 22, federal, state, and local requirements.\n- Assists manager in hiring, training evaluating, and maintaining the competency of the staff. Monitors workflow and turnaround time. Presents in-service programs.\n- Monitors the quality control/assurance programs, test results, and equipment. Ensures tests are being completed according to approved procedures/policies. Identifies, develops, and implements processes to improve the quality of tests and services.\n- Oversees the Safety Program, including Hazardous Waste Management and Chemical Hygiene Plan in Clinical and Anatomic Pathology services. Assists in developing, implementing, and maintaining service standards to meet members and internal client's expectations. Identifies and recommends opportunities to improve department systems.\n- Collaborates with manager in resolving human resources, employee and department safety, and risk management issues. Consults with clients in resolving service issues. Recommends processes to correct the problems.\n- Monitors budgets and resources allocations. Maintains staffing and supplies and identifies strategies to reduce costs, control utilization, and improve quality of care/service.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Previous experience in a high volume acute care clinical laboratory required (usually three years).\n- Previous management experience required.\n- Bachelor's degree in Clinical or related science required.\n- California Clinical Laboratory Scientist License required.\n- ASCP certification preferred.\n- Knowledge of CLIA, Title 22, CAP The Joint Commission, NCQA, AABB, local, state, federal regulations.\n- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.", "date_new": "2012-03-16 23:10:49", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/27217321/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Assistant Administrator Director Laboratory-Roseville, CA", "reqid": "126897", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 27217321}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Graduate Nurse Anesthetist (GRNA)/Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) [ROS-CRNA-#002]\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nSelects and administers intravenous, spinal and other anesthetics prior to and during surgical or medical procedures as a member of the anesthesia care team and in accordance with Kaiser Permanente policies and procedures. Monitors patient reactions and vital signs during and after anesthesia and takes remedial action when warranted. Submits postoperative report on patient condition, and maintains records of anesthetics administered. Performs procedures outside of the OR, in accordance with KP policies and procedures, established competency, and MD order. GRNA (Non-exempt) CRNA (Exempt).\nEssential Functions:\n- Conducts and/or reviews anesthetic evaluation of patients prior to surgical proceedings, deliveries or other pertinent medical procedures in hospital setting.\n- Consults with anesthesiologists and/or surgeons.\n- Reviews patients charts, including permits, pre-operative medications, lab work, and any other significant variations, such as hearing aids, dentures, contact lenses, or other prostheses.\n- Conducts pre-anesthesia evaluations according to KP's policies and procedures as well as the department policy.\n- Develops the care regimen of assigned patients, reviews the care regimen with the supervising physician, and gains concurrence.\n- Implements the anesthesia plan.\n- Evaluates patients to identify apparent difficulties with airway control, etc.\n- Ensures that all pre-anesthesia evaluations are documented thoroughly according to policies and standards.\n- Explains tests, procedures and disease processes to patients and their family as indicated; explains the major anesthetic risks to patients as requested and documents that the risks are explained to patients.\n- Starts IV solution, administers selected anesthetic, choice of anesthetic consistent with patient safety, surgical need, possible post operative complications, and patients history and conditions.\n- Develops, implements and evaluates according to department policy, the care regimen of assigned patients and manages the patient care based on pre-anesthesia evaluation.\n- Participates with post anesthesia care unit personnel in a patient safety oriented interface when patients are transferred from the surgery suite.\n- Monitors patients' vital signs, such as blood pressure and observes any significant physical changes; informs anesthesiologist and/or surgeon of patient's condition and takes any necessary remedial action such as infant resuscitation when necessary.\n- Prepares and administers drugs as indicated for anesthesia requirements.\n- Keeps current accurate and complete record of procedures performed and patients' conditions immediately prior to the administration of anesthesia according to established standards.\n- Performs procedures done outside of OR, such as intubation, arterial line placement etc, in accordance with policies and procedures, competencies, and physician order.\n- Charts details of procedures done on progress notes.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program.\n- Graduate of an accredited school of anesthesia and eligible to take the certification examination given by the Council on Certification of Nurse Anesthetists.\n- Current California RN License.\n- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and certified in the State of California.\n- Must obtain nurse anesthetist certification for the state of California within 90 days of employment.\n- BLS required.\n- ACLS preferred.\n- Demonstrated understanding of all regulatory requirements and legal consequences of anesthesia care.\n- Proven ability to exercise professional prerogatives based on sound clinical judgment.\n- Demonstrated track record of following the precautionary and preventive measures in giving patient care.\n- Demonstrated ability to work in teams and have proven communications and listening skills.\n- Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in interpersonal relations, customer service, adaptability and change management.\nCRNA - Additional requirements noted below are in addition to the qualifications noted above.\n- Must be eligible for Medicare/Medi-Cal enrollment. Medicare enrollment requires current certification by one of the following organizations: Council on Certification of Nurse Anesthetists or the Council on Recertification of Nurse Anesthetists.", "date_new": "2012-03-14 22:28:14", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/27148080/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Graduate Nurse Anesthetist (GRNA)/Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) [ROS-CRNA-#002]", "reqid": "126501", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 27148080}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: PACU Assistant Department Manager [200901-059-5281]\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nThis position supervises Pre Op and PACU Department.\nManages activities of the unit(s), monitors quality, service & utilization standards. Supervises the day to day shift activities.\nEssential Functions:\n- Manages the units day to day clinical operations including practice standards, staffing, payroll, budgets, fiscal management, & quality improvement.\n- Develops & implements action plans to improve staff development.\n- Supervises a single unit (8 to 24 hours) of approximately 20 - 60+ employees.\n- Ensures the highest quality of care is provided & is in compliance w/ federal, state, & local regulatory requirements & established departmental policies & procedures.\n- Utilization of services.\n- Monitors the quality of service & utilization standards & assumes specific responsibility for patient care at the unit level.\n- Ensures coordinated plans of treatment, customer focused care & cost effective utilization of services.\n- Monitors the allocation & utilization of personnel based on continual changes in patient population/needs & provides the best level of patient care while identifying savings opportunities.\n- Works w/ health care providers outside of the unit, to achieve optimal patient care across the continuum.\n- Researches, identifies, & implements best practice models of other units.\n- Investigates & resolves patient/family member concerns regarding patient care.\n- Supervises the daily unit operations, including human resources management, department & employee safety programs, & risk management.\n- Accesses KP Health Connect to evaluate the quality of care provided.\n- Uses KP Health Connect to manage clinical operations.\n- Monitors quality, appropriateness, and accuracy of KP Health Connect documentation\n- Maintains role specific KP Health Connect competencies.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- BSN or BA in health care related field preferred.\n- Graduate of accredited school of nursing.\n- Current California RN license required.\n- Current BLS certification required and ALCS certification strongly preferred.\n- PALS certification may be required for positions in specific departments.\n- Demonstrated knowledge of quality improvement, clinical care delivery processes, staffing, and budgeting.\n- Knowledge of Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission and other federal, state, and local regulatory requirements.\n- Strong interpersonal communication skills.", "date_new": "2012-03-09 02:46:34", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/27029136/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "PACU Assistant Department Manager [200901-059-5281]", "reqid": "126128", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 27029136}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Assistant Chief CRNA\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nIn conjunction with Chief of Service, supervises staff of certified registered nurse anesthetists. Administers intravenous, spinal and other anesthetics prior to and during surgical or medical procedures. Monitors patient reactions and vital signs during and after anesthesia and takes remedial action when warranted. Submits postoperative reports on patient condition, and maintains records of anesthetics administered.\n\nEssential Functions:\n- Augments department leadership with assistance in hiring, training and supervision of certified registered nurse anesthetists.\n- Develops schedules, department standards, policies and procedures; establishes and maintains quality of care and service standards.\n- Implements, reinforces and ensures staff is in compliance with The Joint Commission, and other local, state and federal regulations.\n- Assists in monitoring budgets, resource allocation and department financial performance; identifies and implements strategies to reduce costs and improve quality of care/service.\n- Assumes a proxy role for day-to-day clinical operations and administrative tasks to maintain department continuity in the absence of the Chief CRNA.\n- Reviews anesthetic evaluation of patients prior to surgeries and consults with anesthesiologists and/or surgeons as needed.\n- Reviews patients' charts, including permits, pre-operative medications, lab work, and any other significant variations, such as hearing aids, dentures, contact lenses, or other prostheses.\n- Conducts pre-anesthesia evaluations according to KP's policies and procedures as well as the departmental protocols.\n- Formulates anesthesia plans for proposed operations.\n- Ensures that all pre-anesthesia evaluations are documented thoroughly according to policies and standards.\n- Explains tests, procedures and disease processes to patients and their family as indicated; explains the major anesthetic risks to patients as requested and documents that the risks are explained to patients.\n- Evaluates patients to identify apparent difficulties with airway control.\n- Starts IV solution, administers selected anesthetic, choice of anesthetic consistent with patient safety, surgical need, possible post operative complications, and patient's history and conditions.\n- Develops, implements and evaluates according to departmental protocols, the care regimen of assigned patients and manages the patient care based on pre-anesthesia evaluation.\n- Mixes solutions to required concentrations.\n- Keeps current accurate and complete record of procedures performed and patients' conditions immediately prior to the administration of anesthesia according to established standards.\n- Charts procedures done outside of OR, such as intubation, arterial line placement on progress notes.\n- Participates with post anesthesia care unit personnel in a patient safety oriented interface when patients are transferred from the surgery suite.\n- Monitors patient's vital signs.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Graduated from an accredited school of anesthesia.\n- ACLS certification.\n- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and registered in the state of California.\n- Current California RN license.\n- State Nurse Anesthetist Certification.\n- BCLS certification is required.\n- Must have a National Provider Identifier (NPI), or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date.\n- Demonstrated ability to work in teams and have proven effective communications and listening skills.\n- Demonstrated understanding of all regulatory requirements and legal consequences of anesthesia care.\n- Demonstrated track record of adhering to the precautionary and preventive measures in giving patient care.\n- Proven ability to exercise professional prerogatives based on sound clinical judgment.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n- Masters Degree preferred.\n- Prior supervisor experience preferred.", "date_new": "2012-02-23 18:19:22", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/26706255/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Assistant Chief CRNA", "reqid": "123661", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 26706255}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Ophthalmic Technician II Certified - Grade 660 [21801 1878 17]\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nThe Ophthalmic Technician/photographer is a member of the health care team who, working under the supervision of the department manager, assumes responsibility and accountability for performing Ophthalmic technician, photography and other technical tests on patients as requested. The Ophthalmic Technician provides safe and knowledgeable patient care.\nEssential Functions:\n- Provide direct and indirect patient care associated with physician office visits.\n- Perform biometrics, visual field examinations, B scan ultrasound evaluations, tonometry, and keratometry consistent with Certification by Joint Commission on Allied Health personnel in Ophthalmology.\n- Perform ophthalmic photography (fluorescien angiography, external photos, stereo photos and anterior segment photos), consistent with Certification by Ophthalmic Photographer's Society.\n- Review, identify, label and file completed photographs, negatives and slides. Identify, read and interpret stereoscopic slides, according to department policy.\n- Set up and maintain cameras, and associated ophthalmic equipment and instruments in proper working order on a daily basis.\n- Develop ophthalmic film.\n- Store equipment in its appropriate place at the end of the working day.\n- Performs other related duties as assigned.\n- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Three (3) years work experience (working twenty (20) or more hours per week) as an Ophthalmic Technician within the last five (5) years and be fully proficient in and perform Goldman Visual Fields, Biometrics, Fluorescein Angiography and Retinal Photography a great majority of the time.\n- One year of job experience with cameras and darkroom technique within the past two (2) years, preferred.\n- High School Diploma/GED.\n- Certified in Retinal Angiography by the Ophthalmic Photographer's Society, preferred.\n- Ophthalmic Technician Certification by Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology.\n- Knowledge of ocular anatomy, physiology, pathology, and terminology.\n- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.\n- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.\n\nSchedule: Scheduled days and hours are dependent upon departmental needs and may include holidays and weekends; will follow the contract for notification of schedule change.", "date_new": "2012-02-11 19:54:21", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/26476774/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Ophthalmic Technician II Certified - Grade 660 [21801 1878 17]", "reqid": "121469", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 26476774}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Staff Nurse II Med/Surg Evening/On Call (5217517) - Roseville\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nThe Staff Nurse (SN) II is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame. The SN II provides care to patients via the therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment and instrumentation, and other health care team members.\nEssential Functions:\n- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.\n- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care that is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.\n- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.\n- Establishes priorities or patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.\n- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.\n- Identifies patient/family learning needs and implements appropriate measures.\n- Documents patient care and unit activities in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.\n- Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.\n- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified within the institution.\n- Performs efficiently in emergency patient care situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.\n- Demonstrates sound knowledge base and actions in the care of a designated patient population.\n- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.\n- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and Department of Nursing personnel.\n- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.\n- Participates in unit and Department Performance Improvement activities as directed.\n- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of health care team members.\n- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.\n- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.\n- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families. Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.\n- Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.\n- Ability to navigate in a windows environment, utilizing a mouse and the ability to learn electronic medical record system application.\n- Identifies and solves problems effectively.\n- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.\n- Perform other related duties as necessary.\n- This job motivates and provides work direction (direct, check, review, assign, organize and coordination) to LVN's, Nurse Attendants, unit assistants, etc., but does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Minimum of 6 months experience. See job duties for specific experience requirements for specialty units.\n- MED/SURG - Six months recent (within the last 3 years) experience in an acute care setting. Training in chemotherapy, neurosurgery, telemetry or other specialties may be required once hired. Basic Arrhythmia recognition skills may be required once hired.\n- SPECIALITY AREAS - If no qualified candidate, may be willing to train in the specialty areas listed below. Candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certifications within 6 months of hire or transfer into unit.\n- High School Diploma/GED.\n- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience or Graduate of registered nursing and either 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as an licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation or currently enrolled in an accredited entry level MSN program and has completed pre-licensure requirements to practice nursing.\n- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in California.\n- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for health care providers.\n- Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practice.\n- Demonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers).\n- Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English).\n- Good interpersonal skills.\n- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.", "date_new": "2012-01-26 20:25:56", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/26135432/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Staff Nurse II Med/Surg Evening/On Call (5217517) - Roseville", "reqid": "090247", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 26135432}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Project Manager II [OIM PM2 - 001]\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nLeads and provides expert technical leadership to highly visible, sensitive and multi-faceted projects. Responsible for setting strategic direction of projects and developing project plans. Provides high quality and cost effective project management, analytic support services and technical expertise for a broad array of issues. This is the second job in a three level Project Manager Ladder. At the second level, the Project Manager is responsible for leading projects of complex scope where analysis of data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. Projects assigned are broad in scope and may involve multiple functional areas and/or span across service areas. Position will exercise judgment within generally defined practices/policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining results.\n\nEssential Functions:\n- Leads and provides expert technical leadership to highly visible, sensitive and multi-faceted projects.\n- Sets strategic direction of projects.\n- Develops project plans which identify key issues, problems, approaches, performance metrics and resources required.\n- Designs processes to address identified problems.\n- Establishes team membership and negotiates time commitments and resource allocation.\n- Provides staff leadership to multi-disciplinary teams, as well as manages work of outside consultants.\n- Motivates team members and facilitates team meetings.\n- Acts as liaison, problem solver and facilitator.\n- Cultivates and reinforces appropriate group values, norms and behaviors.\n- Provides guidance to team on performance and productivity issues.\n- Designs research plans for data gathering and analysis.\n- Actively participates or may lead in analyzing data and developing recommendations and action plans.\n- Accountable for the development of project documentation for senior executives and other key clients to facilitate sharing of project outcomes and best practices.\n- Plans and facilitates meetings.\n- Makes formal presentations to various senior level audiences.\n- Establishes procedures regarding implementation of project outcome.\n- Assesses project impact on workforce.\n- May include developing training program for different levels of audiences.\n- Establishes effective professional business relationships with all levels of management.\n- Instructs and educates on all aspects of project.\n- May develop and manage a department, including recruiting, coaching, performance evaluation of staff.\n\nSecondary Functions:\n-Experience with workflow analysis and redesign, translating business workflow into system requirements.\n-Knowledge of Kaiser Permanente's systems and operations, including KP HealthConnect (EPIC).\n- Serve as primary contact and resource for multiple clinical projects, which primarily relate to clinical systems implementation and workflow redesign.\n- Understand standard workflows for assigned departments\n- Partner with department leaders to identify and prioritize potential projects, work with business partners to lay out a frame work for the project, and propose well thought-out business cases to department leadership.\n- Partner with department leaders to identify workflows and utilization of electronic clinical systems that may have potential issues or be inherently difficult. Work with business partners to lay out frame work for a solution, and propose well thought-out business cases to department &/or medical center leadership\n- Serve as resource for counterpart Project Managers for implementation or integration of projects they own, into assigned departments\n- Manages several multi-layered projects that roll into large scale initiatives.\n- Responsible for all aspects of the implementation of clinical systems and workflow redesign projects involving department or cross-functional teams from the design process through a finished state for internal customers.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Five (5) plus years of progressive experience in specified technical area.\n- Project management experience in health care preferred.\n- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business administration, health care administration, operations research, public health administration or other related field.\n- Masters degree or clinical licenses (RN, MD, etc.) preferred.\n- Demonstrated ability to determine key business issues and develop appropriate action plans from multi-disciplinary perspectives.\n- Demonstrated ability to conduct and interpret quantitative and qualitative analyses.\n- Effective leadership, project management and consulting skills.\n- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.\n- Effective interpersonal skills.\n- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.", "date_new": "2012-01-07 20:05:02", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/25760447/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Project Manager II [OIM PM2 - 001]", "reqid": "115341", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 25760447}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Associate Site Support Specialist [ROSOIM-003]\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nProvides immediate end-user support to patient care and business process teams on basic client questions, problems or malfunctions of KP HealthConnect and related systems. Performs basic hardware and application support and workflow integration and troubleshooting.\n\nEssential Functions:\n- Evaluates and resolves, if possible, basic inquiries pertaining to the functional operation of the KP HealthConnect system including other related system implementations and upgrades.\n- Responds to simple inquiries and troubleshoots and coordinates resolution of technical problems and information technology issues related to the electronic medical record.\n- Consults w/ the supervisor and/or lead when the appropriate course of action is unclear.\n- Alerts the client community and team members when a major problem is suspected.\n- Follows up on specific inquiries or requests to ensure client satisfaction.\n- Reports procedural problems; makes suggestions for improvements.\n- Performs related duties as assigned or requested.\n- Shares knowledge and learning w/ other Site Support Specialist.\n\nSupervision Received\n- Receives direct, but not constant, supervision.\n- May require some instruction and guidance from other higher level staff.\n\nProblem Solving and Decision Making\n- Identifies first level problems and escalates if necessary.\n- Should coordinate w/ more senior Site Support Specialists to proceed w/ course of resolution.\n\nSecondary Functions:\nAnalyze complex situations in the medical office environment to resolve system workflow problems. Identify and coordinate new processes, system functionality, system changes and enhancements to support clinical information and meet business needs. Provide coaching, training and consulting to end-user and develop to facilitate learning of basic and specialized applications.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Minimum of 1 year of related experience or 2-3 years healthcare operations experience.\n- Application and customer support experience preferred.\n- AA degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.\n\nSchedule: On-Call work will be required on a rotating basis.\n\n++Proficiency testing for KP HealthConnect suites will be required ++", "date_new": "2011-12-01 18:50:38", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/25134523/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Associate Site Support Specialist [ROSOIM-003]", "reqid": "110692", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 25134523}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Site Support Specialist (Intermediate - ROSOIM-002)\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nProvides immediate end-user support to patient care & business process teams to facilitate the introduction, acceptance, integration & use of KP HealthConnect & related systems. Performs basic hardware & application support, workflow integration, troubleshooting, & consulting on related applications.\nEssential Functions:\n- Provide end-user support for the use of the KP HealthConnect system including other related system implementations & upgrades.\n- Respond to & monitor service requests, diagnose, troubleshoot & coordinate resolution of technical problems & information technology issues related to the electronic medical record.\n- Analyze situations in the clinical environment to resolve technical problems.\n- Identify & coordinate new processes, system functionality, system changes & enhancements to support clinical information & meet business needs.\n- Facilitates the installation & implementation of KP HealthConnect & hardware equipment between IT departments & the patient care & business process teams.\n- Develop processes to promote & communicate the integration of new or enhanced business & clinical systems into the business & patient care setting & their effectiveness.\n- Provides basic training & consulting to end-user to facilitate learning of basic & specialized applications. Leads classes for end users on HealthConnect application.\n- Shares knowledge & learning w/ other Site Support Specialist.\n- Supervision Received\n- Is competent in most phases of HealthConnect application to work independently.\n- Typically works under general supervision of Lead or Manager.\n- Problem Solving & Decision Making\n- Analyzes problems & takes corrective action.\n- Collaborates w/ associates to suggest resolution of problems.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- 1-3 years related experience OR 6 months experience with the EPIC application.\n- 2-4 years healthcare operations experience.\n- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.\n- Proficient with office suite type applications.\n- Strong analytical ability and interpersonal skills to communicate with clients, other staff and vendors.\n- Proficient in 3 HealthConnect Suites: ADT, Revenue Capture and Ambulatory.\n- Knowledge of computer science theory or health care, application and customer support experience.\n\nSchedule Details: On-Call work will be required on a rotating basis.\n\n+++Proficiency testing for KP HealthConnect suites+++", "date_new": "2011-12-01 18:50:30", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/25134517/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Site Support Specialist (Intermediate - ROSOIM-002)", "reqid": "109793", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 25134517}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: Department Manager/Leader RN- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [5272534]\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nManages 24-hour departments providing patient care services. Ensures staff provide high quality, accessible, cost effective care, and patient focused services to members across the continuum, which comply with local, state, and federal requirements. Develops and maintains clinical standards of care and practice; responsible for all resource budgeting, selection and development.\nEssential Functions:\n- Manages the operations of 24-hour departments that may be at multiple locations.\n- Ensures Assistants and staff provide the highest quality of care and are in compliance with the Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements.\n- Establishes, implements, and maintains patient care and service standards to meet members and internal clients expectations.\n- Designs and evaluates processes to improve systems and patient care results across the continuum of care.\n- Develops and monitors budgets for the appropriate use of human and material resources. Monitors financial performance and identifies and implements strategies to reduce costs and improve quality of care/service.\n- Determines the appropriate staff mix for department and develops processes to screen, interview, hire, train, and maintain the competency of all department staff.\n- Ensures on going staff development.\n- Develops, implements, and monitors departmental policy and procedures which support the organizations goals and business objectives and ensures they are met.\n- Oversees and develops standards of care and standards of practice, directs fiscal management, and quality improvement activities.\n- Manages and resolves human resource, employee and department safety, and risk management issues.\n- Accesses KP Health Connect to evaluate the quality of care provided.\n- Uses KP Health Connect to manage clinical operations.\n- Monitors quality, appropriateness, and accuracy of KP Health Connect documentation\n- Maintains role specific KP Health Connect competencies.\n\nSecondary Function:\n- Must also demonstrate knowledge ad application of facilitative communication skills, team building technique and principle driven leadership.\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Extensive nursing experience in both patient care and management/leadership roles required (usually 5 years).\n- Previous supervisory experience required (usually 4 years).\n- BSN or BA in health care related field strongly preferred.\n- Masters degree preferred.\n- Graduate of accredited school of nursing.\n- Current California RN license required.\n- BLS certificate required.\n- Knowledge of Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission, and other local, state, federal regulations.\n- Demonstrated strong interpersonal communication skills.\n\nSchedule:\nFlexibility in hours and shift maybe required.", "date_new": "2011-11-29 21:21:12", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/25094073/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "Department Manager/Leader RN- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [5272534]", "reqid": "112939", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 25094073}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Roseville", "description": "Title: RN Case Manager/Discharge Planner On Call\nLocation: Roseville, CA\nPerforms utilization management activities, discharge planning, and care coordination across the continuum of care in collaboration with the physician and other members of the health care team.\n\nEssential Functions:\nUtilization Management\n- Performs daily preadmission, admission, and concurrent utilization reviews using guidelines, institutional policies/procedures, and other information to determine appropriate levels of care and readiness for discharge.\n- Escalates utilization and system problems which have not been resolved at the local level to the next level (RM/UM Director, CCL, DHO, etc.), immediately.\n- Monitors the progression of the plan of care and facilitates discussions with the multi-disciplinary teams.\n- Educates other health care team members on utilization and cost containment initiatives.\n- Collaborates with and provides information to patients, families, physicians, and staff regarding the provisions of care.\n- Incorporates and counsels on the correct and consistent application, interpretation, and utilization of member health care benefits (including transition of care).\nDischarge Planning\n- Ensures continuity of care through communication in rounds and written documentation, level of care recommendations, transfer coordination, discharge planning and obtaining authorizations/approvals as needed for outside services for the patient.\n- Develops, evaluates, and coordinates a comprehensive discharge plan in conjunction with the patient/family, physician, nursing, social services, and other healthcare providers and agencies.\nPerformance Improvement\n- Monitors care processes to provide cost-effective implementation and evaluation of utilization management and patient care activities, initiatives, and protocols.\n- Participates in the development and implementation of guidelines, preprinted physician orders, care paths, etc. for patient care.\n- Identifies and assists in the implementation of opportunities for cost-savings and improvements in the quality of care across the continuum.\n- Develops, collects, trends, and analyzes data relevant to the utilization of healthcare resources including avoidable/variance days, readmissions, one-day stays, DRGs, LOS, etc.\n- Participates in the development, implementation, communication, maintenance and monitoring of local UM Work plan initiatives.\nAdministrative and Regulatory\n- Shares accountability with the UM Manager for planning, developing, and managing the department budget.\n- Participates in interviewing, makes hiring recommendations, orients and provides on-going supervision of support staff.\n- Provides input into the performance evaluations of team members.\n- May plan and control work assignments and special projects of team members.\n- Assists in developing, implementing and maintaining utilization management policies and procedures.\n- Conducts UM, care coordination, and discharge planning activities according to all applicable regulatory requirements (see qualifications).\nQualifications:\nBasic Qualifications:\n- Experience (usually 2+ years) in direct patient care delivery & management.\n- Demonstrated experience in utilization review, case management, & discharge planning preferred (usually 2+ years).\n- BSN or BA in health care related field or Diploma/Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) w/ comparable years of experience required.\n- Masters Degree preferred.\n- Graduate of accredited school of nursing.\n- BLS certification and current California RN licensure required.\n- Demonstrated strong communication & customer service skills, problem-solving, critical thinking, & clinical judgment abilities.\n- Fundamental word processing & computer navigation skills & the ability to interpret & use analytic data in day to day operations.\n- Knowledge of the Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission, DMHC, CMS, NCQA, HIPPA, ERISA, EMTALA & all other applicable federal/state/local laws & regulations.\n- Knowledge of healthcare benefits associated w/ various business lines (Medicare/KPSA, Commercial/KFH, Medi-Cal, Federal, etc.).\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n- Knowledge of InterQual. Be assertive in applying and implementing these guidelines.", "date_new": "2011-08-23 18:40:32", "url": "http://kp.jobs/xml/23196395/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Kaiser Permanente", "title": "RN Case Manager/Discharge Planner On Call", "reqid": "097887", "state": "California", "state_short": "CA", "location": "Roseville, CA", "uid": 23196395}]