Registered Nurse - Emergency
About The Position
The ER Registered Nurse provides professional nursing care principles, practices, and procedures required to assess the needs of patients; Knowledge of pharmaceuticals, their desired effects, side effects, and complications of their use; recognizing adverse signs and symptoms which are not always apparent and to react promptly in emergency situations including the implementation of life saving procedures; Providing counseling, guidance and health instruction to patients; and The ER RN will identify disease entities in order to recognize complications and therapeutic interventions required. Provide professional nursing duties according to established professional nursing principles, practices, and procedures in an Emergency Room setting, assessing patient's physical, emotional, spiritual and socio-cultural needs; Demonstrate skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patient served; provides pre-operative and post-operative nursing care to patients.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing and eligibility under the Superior Academic Achievement provision OR Bachelor's degree in Nursing and at least one full year of professional nursing experience OR Diploma or associate degree in professional nursing
- Current, valid, unrestricted nursing license in a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a Territory of the United States
- Minimum of 24 months experience in an emergency department environment during the last 36 months
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) as approved by the American Heart Association (AHA)
- Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) as approved by the American Heart Association (AHA)
- Evidence of current immunizations
Responsibilities
- Assess the needs of patients
- Recognize adverse signs and symptoms and react promptly in emergency situations
- Implement life saving procedures
- Provide counseling, guidance and health instruction to patients
- Identify disease entities to recognize complications and therapeutic interventions
- Provide professional nursing duties according to established professional nursing principles, practices, and procedures in an Emergency Room setting
- Assess patient's physical, emotional, spiritual and socio-cultural needs
- Demonstrate skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patient served
- Provide pre-operative and post-operative nursing care to patients
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
