RN - Acute Care - 15887046

University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Easton • Easton, MD

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About The Position

Registered Nurse (RN) – Acute Care position in a combined adult and pediatric general emergency department. The role involves caring for patients with a broad range of medical, psychiatric, respiratory, neurological, and orthopedic conditions, and providing emergency assessment, monitoring, and treatment.

Responsibilities

• Assess and care for patients with abdominal pain, asthma, hyperglycemia, infections, respiratory infections, seizures, sickle cell crisis, and urinary tract infections.
• Identify and report abuse.
• Provide psychiatric care for patients experiencing acute psychosis, drug overdose, suicidal ideation, or requiring a psychiatric hold; manage violent behavior.
• Provide IV therapy, perform phlebotomy, start IVs, administer blood products, and manage central lines.
• Manage chest tubes and provide care for patients receiving CPAP/BiPAP, intubation, or mechanical ventilation; interpret arterial blood gases.
• Administer continuous IV paralytics, continuous IV sedation, emergency medications, IV vasopressors, and procedural sedation.
• Care for patients with stroke and multisystem organ dysfunction or failure.
• Interpret and manage dysrhythmias, perform cardiac monitoring and emergency response, and obtain 12-lead EKGs.
• Apply isolation precautions, perform triage, and manage or apply splints.

What This Job Offers

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