RN Emergency Department Nights

HonorHealth•Mesa, AZ

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The RN provides professional nursing care in the Emergency Department, guided by ANA standards and the Code of Ethics. The role includes assessing patients, developing and implementing individualized plans of care, administering treatments and medications, monitoring and documenting patient status, and collaborating with physicians, patients, families, and multidisciplinary healthcare teams. The RN also educates patients and families, directs and delegates work to licensed practical nurses and nursing aides, supports staff and student development, and contributes to evidence-based practice and a healthy work environment. Nurses with direct responsibility for stroke patients must have the specified knowledge of stroke recognition, protocols, NIHSS, stroke alerts, quality indicators, education resources, and related requirements.

Requirements

Associate's degree or Diploma in Nursing.
More than 10 months of experience in a medical-surgical or acute specialty setting.
Registered Nurse licensure in Arizona or a compact state upon hire.
Basic Life Support certification through BLS training course C, and unit-specific certification as required by the specialty area's DOP.
For diploma and ADN hires: complete a BSN within 60 months of hire or have at least 5 years of Registered Nurse experience, including direct patient care or indirect RN roles, at the time of hire.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN).
Prior Emergency Room RN experience.
National certification for the unit-specific patient population.

Responsibilities

Collect and prioritize health data systematically, involving the family and responding to the patient's immediate condition and needs.
Analyze assessment data and use nursing diagnoses to develop, implement, evaluate, and revise individualized, family-centered, developmentally appropriate, and culturally relevant plans of care.
Identify patient-specific expected outcomes and develop evidence-based plans that support continuity of care.
Implement care-plan interventions, including treatments, medications, emergency measures, and resuscitative measures in accordance with standing orders, policies, and procedures.
Provide nursing care addressing patients' physical, emotional, spiritual, and social-cultural needs using a family-centered approach.
Evaluate patient progress toward expected outcomes and document observations, interventions, monitoring data, and other relevant information.
Evaluate care-plan quality and effectiveness to maintain and enhance patient outcomes and support cost-effective, high-quality healthcare.
Maintain current nursing knowledge and evaluate personal practice against professional standards, applicable statutes and regulations, and system and department policies.
Integrate ethical principles into practice and enhance knowledge of cultural and diversity needs.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary team members, patients, families, and other healthcare providers in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care.
Contribute to peers' and other healthcare providers' professional development through role modeling, positive peer relationships, precepting, and mentoring.
Support new hires and students in completing competency skills and required tasks.
Develop and evaluate evidence-based standards of care and identify and facilitate changes to nursing practice.
Use evidence-based research and systematic evaluation to identify strategies that improve nursing practice and patient outcomes, and support the integration of research into practice.
Consider safety, effectiveness, and cost when planning and delivering care and use resources efficiently.
Teach patients and families about illness or injury management, post-treatment and home-care needs, diet, nutrition, exercise, and self-administration of medication and therapy.
Direct licensed practical nurses and nursing aides in patient care and delegate tasks when appropriate.
For direct care of stroke patients, maintain knowledge of stroke symptoms and warning signs, identification and management protocols, NIHSS, Stroke Alert activation and protocol, stroke quality indicators, patient education materials and community resources, educational requirements, and Stroke Center website resources.