RN Emergency Department

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

RN - Emergency Department Nights

Flagstaff Medical Center

Sign on/Relocation opportunities!

Overview

Registered Nurse in a Level 1 Trauma Center

Nursing Experience:

• Emergency Nursing:
  • 1 year in the emergency department experience (peds or adult).
• New To Specialty:
  • 1 year as an acute care nurse (critical care preferred)

Sign on bonus and relocation assistance available!

This role will be based in the mountain region of beautiful Flagstaff, Arizona

Flagstaff Medical Center - Level 1 Trauma Center

Join our amazing nursing team at our Flagstaff Medical Center location!

You’ll love the Southwest. Why not love your career, too!

Want to join an exceptional organization? If you value quality, go above and beyond in making patients a priority and want to help cultivate a positive, healthy, work environment, we want to talk to you. We are focused on assembling an outstanding team who will work together to maintain our stellar reputation and build a strong brand for Northern Arizona Healthcare as we expand our services.

Here's why:

• Patient-centered, team-based and collaborative work environment.
• Shared leadership that respects the input from front line nurses.
• Work-life balance is a priority with generous PTO.
• Financial support for specialty certifications
• Opportunity to grow your skills in triage, pediatrics, and trauma.
• Highly competitive compensation and benefits
• Financially stable, growing organization.

Northern Arizona Healthcare focuses on our community with 2 Hospitals, Cardiovascular and Orthopedic Spine Institutes, Rehab and Cancer Centers, emergency services, and outpatient care. Our team of more than 3500 employees, including over 200 of the highest quality providers who had their choice of healthcare organizations, chose Northern Arizona Healthcare!

Live the Good Life:

In our Northern Arizona communities, you'll discover abundant opportunities to enjoy a lifestyle that's comparable to few other places. It is all here, four beautiful seasons, clean air, great neighborhoods and no traffic jams. No matter what you do for fun, recreational opportunities are everywhere -- downhill and cross-country skiing, snowboarding, gorgeous hiking trails, golf, mountain biking, climbing, wine tasting, and fine dining. You will also find it ready-made for families with excellent public and private schools, thriving secondary educational facilities, and cultural breadth and diversity. In addition, wherever you live and work you are well-positioned for weekend getaways in the vibrant cities of Phoenix and Las Vegas. 

Ensuring the achievement of Northern Arizona Healthcare’s mission, the Registered Nurse is accountable for the coordination of care for patients and their families including direct care, patient and family education and discharge planning. When providing care, Registered Nurses follow the process of assessing, nursing diagnosing, outcome identification, planning, implementing and evaluation as the basis for the delivery of care. The Registered Nurse provides leadership for ancillary personnel by being a team leader, serving as a preceptor, and being an active member of the healthcare team. The nurse practices within the ANA Scope of Practice, the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses and the standards of their chosen specialty.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

Patient Care

• Assesses the needs and conditions of assigned patients by gathering relevant patient health information.
• Identifies outcomes, develops a plan of care individualized to the patient and/or situation, and implements the identified plan appropriate for the attainment of the expected outcomes.
• Assesses patient's progress toward the attainment of outcomes and effectively revises/updates diagnoses, outcomes and plans of care as appropriate.
• Contributes to patient experience by providing safe, high quality & patient centered care (as described above) and by respecting patients privacy, and treating all patients, family members and guests, as well as other associates, with dignity, respect, and compassion.
• Evaluates patient conditions frequently and adapts plan of care appropriately.
• Performs aseptic techniques by maintaining a sterile field while using principles of disinfection, sterilization, and infection control.
• Maintains infection prevention standards.
• Collaborates with physicians and other health care professionals.
• Assists as necessary with procedures and transportation throughout the hospital per hospital and departmental policies and procedures.

Education

• Participates in creating and sustaining a learning environment supported by evidenced based practice and research.
• Focuses on personal development areas, engaging in professional/collegial interactions with peers and students.
• Work collaboratively with peers and other health care providers, and participating in ongoing in-service and educational seminars.
• Participates in the mentoring and education of colleagues and students.

Compliance/Safety

• Adheres to regulatory and organizational standards affecting patient care and safety as well as all hospital and departmental policies and procedures. Practices in a safe, high quality and cost effective manner.
• Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employees area of responsibility.
• If required for position, ensures all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates.
• Completes all company mandatory modules and required job specific training in the specified time frame.
• Maintains timely and accurate documentation of assessments, interventions, EMR entries, and patient responses.
• Responsible for reporting any safety related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Education:

• Associates degree or diploma in nursing (BSN preferred).
• All associate degree nurses must graduate from a BSN program within 6 years of hire into an RN position.
• Existing Staff RNs: RNs hired before 7/1/2016 are not mandated to have a BSN, but are encouraged to pursue a BSN degree.

Certification & Licensures:

• Active, unrestricted, Arizona RN License or valid, participating compact license- Required
• BLS - Required
• ACLS – Required
• PALS - Required
• NIHSS- Required within 30 days of hire
• STABLE Program at FMC within 60 days of hire
• ATCN or TNCC- Required within 18 months of hire

Additional Experience:

• Familiar with electronic medical record system.

Basic computer software programs (Windows).