Internal Registry Registered Nurse RN - Emergency Services

Prime Healthcare • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

The Registered Nurse in Emergency Services is responsible for delivering safe patient care through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The nurse provides direct patient care within their scope of practice and directs and guides patient and family teaching and the activities of other nursing personnel while maintaining professional nursing care standards.

The nurse is directly responsible and accountable for patient care in the Emergency Department. They communicate changes in a patient’s clinical condition, diagnostic study results, and symptoms to the physician, and respond quickly and accurately to changes in a patient’s condition or response to treatment. The nurse must be knowledgeable about EMTALA regulations and reporting child or adult abuse to appropriate agencies and the Hospital Social Worker, and maintain patient privacy and confidentiality.

Requirements

• Current and valid state RN license.
• Current BLS certificate upon hire and maintained current.
• Current ALS certificate within 30 days of hire and maintained current.
• Current PALS certificate and/or ENPC within 60 days of hire and maintained current.
• ECRN or MICN certificate within 12 months of hire and maintained current, where required by the facility.
• At EDAP-certified facilities, completion of required annual education.
• At non-OB facilities, NRP certificate within 90 days of hire and maintained current.
• At trauma-designated facilities, Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC) within 12 months of hire and maintained current.

Nice To Haves

• Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN).
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
• TNCC at non-trauma facilities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver safe patient care using assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• Provide direct patient care within the scope of practice.
• Direct and guide patient and family teaching and the activities of other nursing personnel while maintaining standards of professional nursing care.
• Take direct responsibility and accountability for care provided to Emergency Department patients.
• Communicate changes in patients’ clinical conditions, diagnostic study results, and symptoms to physicians.
• Respond quickly and accurately to changes in patients’ conditions or responses to treatment.
• Follow EMTALA regulations and report child or adult abuse to appropriate agencies and the Hospital Social Worker.
• Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality.

What This Job Offers

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