Registered Nurse - Emergency Department

Nursing Full Time Evening Shift 13 shifts per month every other weekend and holidays

Registered Nurse Observation Unit (medsurg/tele/ED holds)

Night

Full Time

7p7a

Emergency Department

Position Summary: As a Registered Nurse in the Emergency Department you will provide direct patient care while collaborating with patients family/significant others peers physicians and the interdisciplinary healthcare team. Your role involves assessing patient needs planning care implementing and evaluating medical and nursing regimens in accordance with professional standards. Demonstrating leadership skills you commit to professional accountability and growth.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

1. Understand and adhere to Performance Standards Policies and Behaviors.

2. Utilize the nursing process to meet agespecific patient needs in biophysical psychosocial education safety/environment and discharge planning.

3. Apply appropriate steps in the decisionmaking process recognizing and prioritizing patient care and unitbased issues.

4. Collaborate and communicate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team.

5. Integrate patient rights and nursing ethics into work practice.

6. Adhere to infection control standards to reduce the risk of nosocomial infections for patients and staff.

7. Follow the tenets of the Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals.

8. Delegate activities to ancillary staff as per the State Nurse Practice Act.

9. Adhere to the ANA Code of Nursing Ethics & Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice.

10. Support promote and practice within the Professional Nursing Practice Model.

11. Sustain and advance the Magnet model.

12. Participate in Performance Improvement initiatives.

13. Complete competency requirements.

14. Attend mandatory inservices and staff meetings as required/requested.

15. Utilize cost containment practices.

16. Assume Charge Nurse responsibility.

17. Perform other related duties as assigned.

Education & Experience Requirements:

1. Graduate from an accredited school of nursing with a current New York RN license/registration.

2. BSN required for RNs hired after 1/1/18.

3. Knowledge of current nursing medical and health trends and practices.

4. ER experience REQUIRED

5. two years of acute care nursing experience preferred (excluding medical surgical or stepdown).

6. BLS certification (through American Heart Association) required.

7. ACLS certification (through American Heart Association) required for all RNs as of 1/1/17 except for NICU and OR RNs.

8. PALS certification (through American Heart Association) required for certain RNs.

9. NRP certification required for specific units.

10. Oncology care providers must hold cancerspecific certification or complete ongoing education.

11. Emergency Department RNs must complete deescalation training within 1 year of hire.

12. Successful completion of Department and Unit Orientation Program.