Registered Nurse (RN) - Emergency Department

Employee Type:
Regular
Work Shift:
Night - 12 hour shift (United States of America)

Join Team Tidelands and help people live better lives through better health!

Registered Nurse (RN) - Emergency Department
Are you passionate about quality and committed to excellence? Consider joining our Tidelands Health team. As our region's largest health care provider, we are also one of our area's largest employers. More than 2,500 team members at more than 70 Tidelands Health locations bring our healing mission to life each day.

A Brief Overview
The Registered Nurse is responsible for the provision of nursing care based on standards of care and professional nursing practice; collaborating with providers and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends, and families; supervising assigned team members: and accountable for the outcomes of nursing care delivered in an emergency department setting.

What you will do

• Conduct an individualized patient assessment, prioritizing the data collection based on the patient's immediate condition or needs as specified by policy along with collaboration with other members of the healthcare team.
• Monitor and document patient condition, assessment findings, and physical/psychosocial responses to nursing intervention and progress towards problem resolution.
• Perform appropriate treatments and administrations of medication accurately per order, policy, and timely.
• Perform therapeutic nursing interventions and deliver of care with appropriate age and cultural competence as established by individualized needs/plan of care for the patient and family.
• Observe and interpret patient's symptoms and communicate them to the provider and other staff during SBAR report.

Education Qualifications

• ADN Required
• BSN Preferred
• MSN Preferred

Experience Qualifications

• Previous experience in an acute care critical care setting Preferred

Skills and Abilities

• Abiulity to work with patients, families, physicians, and other health care providers.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality as well as providing care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is sensitive to the patient's and family's diversity, preserving their autonomy, dignity, and rights.
• Demonstrate critical thinking abilities with patient care, critical test results, provider contacts, and Administrative House Supervisors Document the critical test results per policy.

Licenses and Certifications

• Registered Nurse - South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Required
• Basic Life Support Certified - American Heart Association within 30 Days Required
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Certified - American Heart Association within 1 Year Required
• Trauma Nurse Core Course - Emergency Nurse Association within 2 Years Required
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support Certified - American Heart Association Preferred
• Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course - American Nurses Credentialing Center within 2 Years Preferred

Physical Demand
Medium Physical Demand
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a contract for employment nor a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Tidelands Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Tidelands Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). Tidelands Health does not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender, genetic information, familial status, or any other legally protected status.