Our nurses play a vital role in providing quality care to patients. We work in partnership with other health care providers who are committed to excellence. The role of the professional nurse is significant to the mission, vision, and values of the facility. Registered nurses take responsibility and accountability for coordinating care and service with other members of the health care team. The areas where registered nurses provide and coordinate care include:
§ Emergency Department
§ Intensive Care Unit
§ Operating Room
§ Medical-Surgical Units
§ Pain Management
§ Recovery Room
§ Short Stay Surgery
Nursing personnel in all areas that professional nursing is practiced strive to:
§ Demonstrate patient advocacy while collaborating in each patients care.
§ Improve health, wellness, and clinical outcomes for patients.
§ Provide continuity of care.
§ Partner with patients and their family members to coordinate care that promotes courtesy, respect, autonomy, and dignity.
§ Promote patient satisfaction.
§ Define standards of care and best practice.
We consistently strive to improve our professional practice through education and staff development programs that enhance skill and knowledge and promote professional practice, and through credentialing activities. The organized structure of the department supports direct and indirect care activities through a defined hierarchy.
Performance Improvement
Nursing personnel consistently strive to improve care and service through participation in quality and performance improvement activities that are designed to assess, measure, and evaluate how care is delivered.
We strive to:
§ Foster a commitment to the pursuit of quality and excellence.
§ Encourage staff participation in performance improvement efforts.
§ Improve clinical outcomes and resource utilization.
§ Promote staff satisfaction.
§ Identify care issues that benefit from performance improvement activities.
§ Use department specific and unit specific data improve care, safety, and clinical decision-making.
Core performance and monitoring activities, developed based on regulatory and accrediting agency requirements and guidelines for standards of care and practice, include but are not limited to:
§ Pain assessment and management
§ Fall prevention
§ Restraint use
§ Pressure ulcer prevention and treatment
§ Patient satisfaction
§ Patient education
School Affiliations
§ We are a clinical site for El Camino College RN students. Our nursing staff play an active role in mentoring students and serving as professional role models.
§ We provide onsite student training for operating room technicians with Career Colleges of .
Community Benefit Program Implementation
Nursing personnel are involved with assisting the Community Liaison Director in meeting the needs of the community through:
§ Health screening
§ Health education
§ Immunization programs
§ Outreach activities
§ Risk assessments
§ Health assessments
Case Managers
Case managers facilitate collaborative care between patients, the family support system, the bedside nurse, physicians, and other ancillary and community resources. They identify patients requiring care management because of an unpredictable course of illness, frequent or repeat hospital admissions, increased socioeconomic risk, or special financial need. They work with the patient from the time of admission to plan for special discharge needs.
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Our Licensed Clinical Social Worker [LCSW] works with patients and family members to meet identified psychosocial needs that are identified as a result of hospitalization, the course of illness, or in response to socioeconomic issues. An important member of the health care team, the LCSW can be contacted Monday through Friday.
