Registered Nurse - Emergency Room

Emergency Department Position

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About the Facility – Long Beach VAMC

The VA Long Beach Healthcare System is one of the most diversified health care systems in the VA. Located along the Southern California coast, the facility provides comprehensive inpatient, outpatient, and extended care programs. The medical center and its community clinics employ more than 2,200 full-time employees, and the VA Long Beach is the health care provider of choice for more than 50,000 Veterans. Active in both research and education, they partner with universities and education centers across Southern California to train a new generation of health care leaders. Facility address: 5901 E 7th St, Long Beach, CA 90822

ER Responsibilities

• Must understand triage to make quick and accurate assessments about incoming Emergency Department patients, including physical, infectious and mental health conditions.
• Proficient with Emergency Severity Index.
• Obtain patient history and pertinent family history.
• Check for any allergies and current medications.
• Obtain height, weight, body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure.
• Establish, monitor, and recognize cardiac rhythms.
• Take blood samples, cleaning and bandaging wounds, administer medications and intra-venous therapies.
• Possess knowledge of Infection Control Practices and utilizing appropriate practices as needed.
• Document plan of care and care given in the patient's medical record.
• Verify transcription of physician's orders.
• Carry out prescribed Physician's orders on documents inpatient medical records.
• Communicate pertinent patient data to the Charge Nurse and/or Physician as appropriate.
• Re-assess patient's condition and revise plans of care based on problems that the Nurse identifies.
• Possess knowledge of actions and usual dosages of the most commonly used emergency drugs and their location on the crash cart.
• Assess and document patient responses to medications that have been administered.
• Instructs patients and their families regarding prescribed medications/therapies and surgical/diagnostic procedures that must be accomplished.
• Care for patients with Swan-Gans catheters, arterial lines, and mechanical ventilators.
• Participate in discharge planning.
• Can titrate medications.

Emergency Department - Qualifications

• Must have a bachelor's degree for nursing from an accredited program approved by either the ACEN or the CCNE.
• 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 two years' experience within the last three years.
• Current BLS and ACLS certification as approved by the American Heart Association.

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