RN Emergency Services
About The Position
The Registered Nurse (RN) delivers compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to patients in a fast-paced emergency services environment. The role includes making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, implementing patient care plans, and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes and recovery. The position calls for strong assessment and critical-thinking skills, a patient-first mindset, urgency, and dedication to excellence. The RN assesses and reassesses patients, obtains nursing histories, conducts physical assessments, establishes care priorities, and evaluates learning needs and readiness for discharge, including the patient’s and family’s ability to manage illness after discharge. The RN provides direct patient care as needed, assists physicians with procedures, reports changes in patient condition, and completes accurate, timely, legible, and complete computer and handwritten documentation. The position is at Dignity Health - Memorial Hospital, a 385-bed acute care, nonprofit hospital in Bakersfield, California. The hospital serves nearly 100,000 patients annually and offers services including heart care, maternity care, orthopedics, and pediatric care. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center and has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader.
Requirements
- Education level necessary to obtain required licensure and certifications.
- Registered Nurse: California (upon hire).
- Basic Life Support - CPR (upon hire).
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (upon hire).
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (upon hire).
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
- 1–2 years of emergency nursing experience.
- Trauma Nurse Core Course.
- Certified Emergency Nurse.
Responsibilities
- Perform and reassess patient assessments, including obtaining nursing histories and conducting physical assessments.
- Give or receive comprehensive change-of-shift and intermittent reports.
- Establish priorities for patient care.
- Assess patients’ learning needs and readiness for discharge, including the ability of patients, families, or significant others to manage illness after discharge.
- Complete computer and handwritten documentation accurately, precisely, legibly, and in a timely and complete manner.
- Provide direct patient care as required.
- Assist physicians with procedures as necessary.
- Report changes in a patient’s condition to the physician.
- Implement patient care plans and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
