RN (ED) - Loan Forgiveness - Full Time, Nights (Norwalk) - 10407

Los Angeles Community Hospitals • Norwalk, CA

2d • $51 - $70 • Onsite

About The Position

The Emergency Department Registered Nurse provides prompt assessment, treatment, and specialized nursing care for patients with life-threatening, emergent, urgent, acute, or complex needs. The nurse monitors patients and uses therapeutic equipment while collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, physicians, and support staff to coordinate and implement care for assigned patients. Nursing practice incorporates patients’ and families’ psychosocial, psychomotor, and age-appropriate cognitive needs, with ongoing assessment, planning, intervention, advocacy, and evaluation across the continuum of care. The nurse reevaluates patient responses and outcomes, the effectiveness of care plans, and discharge readiness, revising plans or making referrals as appropriate. The role also serves as a role model and mentor to new graduate nurses, orientees, and support staff.

The position delivers safe, effective, age-appropriate emergency nursing care, including medication administration and monitoring, clinical interventions, patient and family education, and discharge planning. The nurse recognizes changes in condition, responds to emergencies as assigned, communicates critical findings, promotes evidence-based practice, and supports safe, efficient emergency department operations. The position is full-time on nights in Norwalk. The listed pay range is $51.20–$70.40, described as a calculated average rate for 12 total hours worked that includes overtime and is not the base rate. A $25,000 sign-on bonus is available subject to eligibility requirements, including at least one year of acute-care RN hospital experience; current Alta Hospital employees are ineligible, and former employees may be ineligible. Bonus payments are made in increments over 24 months to active employees in good standing.

Requirements

• Active, current, and unencumbered Registered Nurse licensure in California.
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• AHA Basic Life Support certification.
• AHA Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification.
• AHA Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification.
• Ability to read, write, and communicate effectively in English.
• Ability to work variable shifts, including evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Ability to maintain flexibility and composure in a constantly changing environment.
• One year of previous emergency nursing experience or completion of an emergency department training course.
• Complete training that includes EMTALA and ESI 5-level triage within the first six months of employment as an RN in the Emergency Department.
• De-escalation certification upon hire; SAMA certification is required upon recertification.
• Hospital Fire and Life Safety Card for Los Angeles City employees only.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
• Bilingual skills to communicate effectively with patients and families.
• SAMA Certification upon hire.
• Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN).

Responsibilities

• Provide prompt assessment and treatment for patients with life-threatening, emergent, or urgent medical needs.
• Provide specialized nursing care and monitor therapeutic equipment for acute or complex patients.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, physicians, and support staff to coordinate and implement plans of care for assigned patients.
• Assess, plan, intervene, and advocate for patients while addressing psychosocial, psychomotor, and age-appropriate cognitive needs of patients and families.
• Reevaluate patient responses, outcomes, care-plan effectiveness, and discharge readiness; revise plans or make referrals as needed.
• Serve as a role model and mentor to new graduate nurses, orientees, and support staff.
• Provide patient care, review and administer medications including intravenous titrations, and manage invasive and arterial lines, cardiac monitoring, ventilators, treatments, and procedures within nursing scope and standards.
• Recognize changes in patients’ clinical conditions, take appropriate action, and document interventions; respond to RRTs, Code Blues, and Code Whites as assigned.
• Collaborate with the healthcare team to intervene and advocate for patients, make appropriate referrals, and address abuse, assault, neglect, or inadequate financial or social resources.
• Develop short- and long-term goals consistent with treatment plans and standards of practice, incorporating patient preferences and discussing the plan of care with patients.
• Use pain-management resources and other interventions, conduct ongoing assessments, and document patients’ physical and psychosocial conditions and responses to care.
• Review test results, identify critical results, communicate them promptly according to patient condition, and incorporate findings into the plan of care.
• Practice evidence-based nursing within licensure scope and hospital standards, including core measures, infection-control procedures, and HIPAA requirements.
• Coordinate care and support efficient emergency department throughput; supervise, monitor, and delegate care activities appropriately while promoting safe, high-quality care.
• Provide information, resources, guidance, and education about treatment plans, care plans, and medications; develop and implement teaching and ongoing discharge plans.
• Communicate with empathy and compassion, taking account of patients’ and families’ age, cultural, religious, gender-identity, and ethnic backgrounds.

Benefits

• $25,000 sign-on bonus for eligible full-time RN candidates, paid in increments over 24 months to active employees in good standing; eligibility restrictions apply.

What This Job Offers

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