RN Emergency

CommonSpirit Health • Redwood City, CA

8h

About The Position

As a Staff Nurse, you will deliver compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to emergency patients. You will perform assessments and skilled procedures, implement patient care plans, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes. The role calls for strong assessment and critical-thinking skills, a patient-first mindset, urgency, and dedication to providing excellent care in a fast-paced environment.

You will establish a professional and responsive atmosphere by greeting patients, visitors, staff, and physicians courteously. You will assess patients’ physical and psychosocial needs, pain, learning barriers and needs, discharge needs, age-related needs, and issues related to assault or abuse. By analyzing patient information—including vital signs, medical and prenatal history, examination findings, and laboratory values—you will determine appropriate care. You will provide age-specific education to patients and their families or significant others, clearly explaining treatment, discharge, and follow-up instructions. You will prioritize needs and provide patient-centered emergency interventions, using clinical skills such as IVs and pelvic exams within the department’s scope of practice.

Dignity Health - Sequoia Hospital is a 208-bed, acute-care nonprofit hospital in Redwood City, California, founded in 1950. It serves more than 50,000 patients annually and provides services including heart care, stroke care, and a birthing center. The hospital is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center and has received stroke-care quality recognition. It was named a Leapfrog 2025 Top General Hospital and recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

Requirements

• Minimum of one year of emergency or critical care experience.
• California Registered Nurse license, 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

• Greet patients, visitors, staff, and physicians promptly and courteously, using names when appropriate.
• Perform initial assessments using professional nursing knowledge and skills.
• Assess physical and psychosocial needs, pain, learning barriers and needs, discharge needs, age-related needs, and concerns related to assault or abuse.
• Analyze patient-related data, including vital signs, medical and prenatal history, physical examination findings, laboratory values, and 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 confirm understanding.
• Prioritize patient needs and implement specialized, patient-centered interventions for emergency patients.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

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