Emergency Nurse

CommonSpirit Health•Stockton, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Registered Nurse (RN) in Emergency Services, you will help individuals and families receive holistic, effective, and appropriate care in a safe and confidential environment to support optimal health outcomes from admission to discharge. You will assess patients, plan, implement, and evaluate their care using clinical skills and technology. The role also requires thorough documentation, following leadership direction, mentoring new staff, continuous self-development, and maintaining a safe patient environment in accordance with policies and procedures. The position calls for keen assessment skills, critical thinking, a patient-first mindset, urgency, and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment. Responsibilities include assessing and documenting patients’ physical, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, functional, high-risk, and discharge needs. You will complete initial assessments and care within required time frames, conduct reassessments at appropriate intervals, cover all major body systems in physical assessments, address expressed spiritual needs, and incorporate cultural and ethnic factors into care. Dignity Health - St. Joseph’s Medical Center is a 355-bed acute-care, nonprofit hospital in Stockton, California. Founded in 1899, it serves more than 125,000 patients annually and provides services including a Level III NICU, cancer care, heart care, and a family birth center. The hospital is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center and has received recognition from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and Healthgrades.

Requirements

Graduate of an RN School of Nursing.
Active Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of California.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification from the American Heart Association.
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification from the American Heart Association.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in a health-related field.
Emergency Department experience.
Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC) certification.

Responsibilities

Assess patients’ physical, psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, functional, high-risk, and discharge needs.
Complete and document initial assessments and care within required time frames.
Perform reassessments and provide care at intervals required or appropriate to each patient’s needs.
Ensure physical assessments and care address all major body systems.
Address actual or expressed spiritual needs in assessments and care.
Incorporate cultural and ethnic factors into assessments and care.
Plan, implement, and evaluate patient care using clinical skills and technology.
Document thoroughly and follow leadership direction, policies, and procedures.
Mentor new staff and engage in continuous self-development.
Maintain a safe and confidential patient environment.