Specialty RN 12 HR PD - RRAL ER

Prime Healthcare • Gadsden, AL

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About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides safe, direct patient care in the Emergency Department using the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The nurse is directly responsible and accountable for the care of assigned patients and must respond quickly and accurately to changes in patients’ conditions or responses to treatment.

The role includes communicating with physicians about changes in clinical condition, diagnostic study results, and symptoms; directing and guiding patient and family teaching; and guiding the activities of other nursing personnel while maintaining professional nursing care standards. The nurse must be knowledgeable about EMTALA regulations and reporting child or adult abuse to appropriate agencies and the Hospital Social Worker, and must maintain patient privacy and confidentiality.

Requirements

• Current and valid state RN license.
• Current BLS certificate upon hire and maintain it current.
• Current ACLS certificate within 30 days of hire and maintain it current.
• Current PALS certificate and/or ENPC within 30 days of hire and maintain it current.
• Basic Arrhythmia Interpretation within 30 days of hire.
• Minimum of one year of experience as a staff RN in an acute-care hospital setting.
• For Paramedic Base Station ED facilities: MICN within 12 months of hire and maintain it current.
• For EDAP-certified facilities: complete emergency pediatric courses 1 and 2 within 6 months of hire.
• Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC) within 12 months of hire.

Nice To Haves

• Emergency Department experience preferred.
• Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) preferred.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe, direct patient care using the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• Take direct responsibility and accountability for the care of assigned Emergency Department patients.
• Communicate patients’ clinical changes, diagnostic study results, and symptoms to physicians.
• Respond quickly and accurately to changes in a patient’s condition or response to treatment.
• Direct and guide patient and family teaching and the activities of other nursing personnel.
• Maintain professional nursing care standards, patient privacy, and confidentiality.
• Follow EMTALA regulations and report child or adult abuse to appropriate agencies and the Hospital Social Worker.

What This Job Offers

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