Registered Nurse - Emergency Department (Night shift)

St. Peter's Health Regional Medical Center • Helena, MT

4h

About The Position

Provides direct and indirect professional nursing care in an emergency department with initiative, flexibility, and responsibility, working with minimal supervision. Rapidly and accurately triages patients, gathers assessment data, prioritizes care, and implements interventions based on patients’ physical and psychosocial needs and factors affecting patient flow. Monitors patient responses to care and treatment, responds promptly to changes in condition or additional needs, and coordinates care with the multidisciplinary team. Communicates pertinent clinical findings, diagnostic results, changes in patient status, and patient-flow information to the care team, including emergency department physicians. Documents accurate and complete information about the care provided. The role requires the physical strength, agility, and endurance to lift and move patients and equipment in a fast-paced, changing emergency care environment.

Requirements

• Graduate of a professional school of nursing.
• Current Montana Registered Nurse license.
• BLS certification required.
• ACLS and PALS qualifications required within six months of hire.
• TNCC required within one year of hire.
• Solid assessment, prioritization, and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to apply sound clinical judgment and implement appropriate interventions.
• Interpersonal and communication skills for effective, non-judgmental, service-oriented, empathetic patient care and customer relations.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, stress, deadlines, difficult situations, and customers.
• Flexibility with scheduling and department assignments and openness to feedback and a changing environment.
• Physical strength, agility, and endurance to lift and move patients and equipment.

Nice To Haves

• Emergency nursing experience preferred; one year of emergency department experience strongly preferred.
• Critical care experience desirable.
• CEN certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly and accurately triage patients presenting for emergency care.
• Obtain assessment data, determine care priorities, and implement appropriate interventions based on physical and psychosocial needs.
• Monitor the effectiveness of interventions and treatments and patients’ responses to them.
• Coordinate care within the multidisciplinary team.
• Respond promptly and accurately to changes in patient condition, treatment response, and additional patient needs.
• Communicate changes in patient status, clinical findings, diagnostic results, patient needs, and patient-flow information to the care team, including emergency department physicians.
• Document pertinent, accurate, and complete information about emergency department care provided.
• Complete required education and integrate experience into emergency nursing practice.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed