RN Emergency

CommonSpirit Health • Redwood City, CA

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About The Position

The Staff Nurse delivers compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to emergency patients. The role involves making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and implementing patient care plans in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes. The nurse is expected to bring strong assessment and critical-thinking skills, a patient-first mindset, urgency, and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment.

The nurse creates a professional and responsive atmosphere by courteously greeting patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. They assess patients’ physical and psychosocial needs, pain, learning barriers and educational needs, discharge needs, age-related needs, and issues related to assault or abuse. They analyze patient-related information—including vital signs, medical and prenatal history, physical examination findings, laboratory values, and age-specific criteria—to determine appropriate care. They provide age-specific health education to patients and their families or significant others, communicate treatment and discharge information clearly, and ensure that follow-up instructions are understood. They use specialized knowledge and skills to prioritize and implement patient-centered interventions for emergency patients, including clinical skills such as IVs and pelvic exams within the department’s scope of practice.

The position is at Dignity Health - Sequoia Hospital, a 208-bed acute-care nonprofit hospital in Redwood City, California.

Requirements

• Minimum of one year of emergency or critical care experience.
• 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

• Graduation from an accredited school of professional nursing, upon hire.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing, upon hire.

Responsibilities

• Provide compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to emergency patients.
• Perform initial patient assessments, including assessment of physical and psychosocial needs, pain, learning barriers and educational needs, discharge needs, age-related needs, and issues related to assault or abuse.
• Analyze vital signs, medical and prenatal history, physical examination findings, laboratory values, and other patient information, including age-specific criteria, to determine appropriate care.
• Provide age-specific health education to patients, families, and significant others while accounting for barriers to learning.
• Clearly communicate health, treatment, discharge, and follow-up information and ensure it is understood.
• Prioritize and implement patient-centered interventions for emergency patients using advanced, specialized knowledge and skills.
• Perform clinical skills, including IVs and pelvic exams, within the department’s scope of practice.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes.
• Greet patients, visitors, staff, and physicians promptly and courteously, and refer to individuals by name when appropriate.

What This Job Offers

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