Registered Nurse (RN)- Emergency Department (FT Nights)

Wellstar Health System • Marietta, GA

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About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides direct patient care in Wellstar Kennestone Hospital’s Emergency Department on a full-time night shift, scheduled 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. The role applies the nursing process and evidence-based practice to deliver individualized, relationship-based care, coordinate care across the continuum, and promote safe, high-quality patient outcomes. The nurse partners with patients and their significant others, communicates and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams, supports performance improvement and research, and contributes to professional development and a healthy work environment. The position also requires compliance with Wellstar policies, professional standards, and applicable legal, regulatory, and accreditation requirements.

Requirements

• Associate degree in Nursing or a nursing diploma; a Bachelor of Science in Nursing is preferred.
• Required upon hire: Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or an accepted American Red Cross or instructor equivalent.
• Required upon hire: Registered Nurse license (single-state or compact multi-state).
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) or an accepted equivalent; provisional PALS certification is permitted within 180 days.
• Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC) or Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN), or provisional TNCC certification within 18 months.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) or an accepted American Red Cross or instructor equivalent; provisional ACLS certification is permitted within 180 days.
• Comply with Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

Responsibilities

• Perform the nursing process—including assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation—using evidence-based practice and critical thinking.
• Provide individualized, relationship-based, patient-centered care that reflects population-specific needs and cultural diversity.
• Partner with patients and significant others, keep them informed, and make patient goals central to the plan of care.
• Use current clinical practice standards.
• Coordinate and document safe, quality patient care through timely documentation and inclusive interdisciplinary communication.
• Promote a respectful, inclusive clinical environment and collaborate in a fiscally responsible manner that supports recruitment and retention.
• Participate in performance improvement, research and research utilization, shared governance, and interdisciplinary processes; initiate or lead activities when appropriate.
• Complete initial and ongoing professional competency assessments and required mandatory and population-specific education.
• Serve as a preceptor or mentor to nurses and other staff or students, modeling professional nursing practice.
• Promote evidence-based practice, nursing research, and performance improvement, including participation in value analysis of patient care products.
• Comply with organizational policies, clinical competencies, professional standards, and legal, regulatory, and accreditation requirements.
• Participate in data collection, raise clinical questions, and consult appropriate experts and evidence to address practice questions.
• Plan proactively for patient care across the care continuum.
• Participate in developing protocols and procedures in collaboration with care managers and other healthcare team members.
• Support efficient and effective use of human and material resources.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Associate degree