Kaiser Permanente·Honolulu, Hawaii
Provides comprehensive nursing care to NICU patients and families while serving as a primary caregiver and resource nurse. Directs and delegates tasks to LPNs and nursing assistive personnel to ensure quality care delivery.
This position is a Hawaii Nurses and Healthcare Professionals Bargaining Unit represented position.
Job Summary: Provides nursing care and services to patients/families.
Provides direction to licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistive personnel.
Delegates nursing care according to legal and regulatory guidelines/statutes and organizational policies.
Utilizes reasonable judgment in carrying out prescribed medical orders of a practitioner.
Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver.
Serves as resource nurse.
Acts as preceptor and takes charge duties as assigned.
Practices professional nursing and delegates nursing tasks to nursing assistive personnel and provides direction to the LPN as appropriate. Utilizes nursing process to deliver care. Performs any nursing task requiring nursing knowledge, judgment, and skill and maintains organizational, departmental, and job-specific competencies in accordance with their departmental scope of service, discipline, specific scopes of practice and defined job descriptions. Administers medications. As appropriate, may administer intradermal local anesthetic for IV placement. Teaches LPNs and nursing assistive personnel special tasks of nursing care. Verifies staff competency to perform special tasks of nursing care as appropriate. Is responsible and accountable for quality of nursing rendered and adequacy of nursing care provided when special tasks are delegated to nursing assistive personnel. Functions as primary nurse/total patient caregiver. Serves as resource nurse and acts as preceptor. Takes charge duties as assigned. Incorporates the KP Vision, Model and Values throughout their Nursing Practice. Performs administrative and other duties and accepts responsibility as assigned. May perform patient care to the extent necessary to maintain clinical expertise, competency and licensing necessary to fulfill job responsibilities and to direct the provision of care on the unit.
Experience working with electronic medical records. Coursework in basic EKG.
Requires a Hawaii Registered Nurse license and at least one year of NICU experience or completion of a specialty course. Must hold BLS certification and obtain NRP certification within 12 months of hire.
Market context
Labor and delivery RN roles in Hawaii are typically competitive because employers look for clinicians who can step into high-acuity maternal and newborn care with minimal ramp-up. This posting calls for an active Hawaii RN license, BLS, ACLS, NRP, STABLE, fetal monitoring, and at least 2 years of labor and delivery experience with coupling care experience; review these closely, since the requirements and benefits here are AI-summarized from the original job description to save research time. A practical next step is to confirm your licensure and certifications are current before applying.