Registered Nurse - Emergency

RN ER

The ER Registered Nurse provides professional nursing care principles, practices, and procedures required to assess the needs of patients; Knowledge of pharmaceuticals, their desired effects, side effects, and complications of their use; recognizing adverse signs and symptoms which are not always apparent and to react promptly in emergency situations including the implementation of life saving procedures; Providing counseling, guidance and health instruction to patients; The ER RN will identify disease entities in order to recognize complications and therapeutic interventions required. Provide professional nursing duties according to established professional nursing principles, practices, and procedures in an Emergency Room setting, assessing patient's physical, emotional, spiritual and socio-cultural needs; Demonstrate skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patient served; provides pre-operative and post-operative nursing care to patients.

Qualifications

• Candidates must possess a bachelor's degree in Nursing and eligibility under the Superior Academic Achievement provision -OR- Possess of a bachelor's degree in Nursing and at least one full year of professional nursing experience-OR- Possess a diploma or associate degree in professional nursing
• Must possess a current, valid, unrestricted nursing license in a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a Territory of the United States.
• Must have a minimum of 24 months experience in an emergency department environment during the last 36 months
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) as approved by the American Heart Association (AHA) is mandatory for all specialties.
• Evidence of current immunizations is required