RN (Registered Nurse) ER Mids

UHS•Wellington, FL

20d•Onsite

About The Position

Wellington Regional Medical Center is hiring a Registered Nurse for its Emergency Department. This full-time role offers 36 hours per week and a mid-shift schedule described in the posting as a night shift. Overtime and opportunities to cover other shifts are available for interested nurses. The RN provides safe, competent, patient-centered nursing care in accordance with facility policies, standards, and philosophy, while offering professional leadership and support to the healthcare team. The role includes responding to stroke alerts and performing stroke-related assessment and care, including NIHSS assessments, bedside swallow evaluations, support for telemedicine consultations and physician evaluations, and thrombolytic therapy and endovascular treatment processes when indicated. Wellington Regional Medical Center is a 235-bed acute care community hospital in Wellington, Florida, and a subsidiary of Universal Health Services, Inc. The organization emphasizes patient safety, service excellence, teamwork, compassion, innovation, and professional growth.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited or NLN-approved RN program.
Current Florida nursing license.
Current BLS certification upon hire.
ACLS, PALS, and/or required specialty training or course completion, or obtain it within three months of employment.
Successfully pass any pre-employment assessments required by the facility.

Nice To Haves

One year of full-time or three years of part-time experience in an acute care setting is preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide safe, competent nursing care in accordance with facility policies, standards, and philosophy.
Provide professional leadership and support to the healthcare team, using Patient Centered Care as the foundation for nursing activities.
Demonstrate Service Excellence standards at all times.
Recognize signs and symptoms of stroke and call a stroke alert overhead; verbalize the stroke alert process.
Perform NIHSS assessments and bedside swallow evaluations.
Assist with telemedicine consultations and physician examination and evaluation of thrombolytic therapy inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Mix, administer, and monitor thrombolytic therapy when the patient is deemed a candidate.
Prepare patients for endovascular treatment when indicated and assume patient care while the patient is in the Emergency Department.
Maintain current stroke knowledge by completing NIHSS training and at least eight hours of stroke-related training annually.