Registered Nurse (RN) - Emergency Room, Part-Time, Evening Shift

Registered Nurse (RN) - Emergency Room, Part-Time, Evening Shift

Island Health is looking for an experienced Emergency Department Registered Nurse for our Evening Shift at our hospital in Anacortes, WA.

Work Schedule:

• 0.6 FTE / 24 hours per week
• Evening Shift: 1pm - 1:30am

Salary Range: $36.90 - $69.95

• Night Differential - $4.75
• Evening Differential - $3.25
• Weekend Differential - $4.00
• BSN (or higher) premium - $1.00/hour
• Certification premium - $1.00/hour

Why Choose Island Health?

Whether you're a new grad or experienced in your field and considering a change, we invite you to explore a wide range of careers at Island Health with exceptional benefits including:

• Medical, Vision, & Dental Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Extended Illness Benefit
• Life Insurance
• Long-Term Disability
• Vested Retirement Contribution
• Flexible Spending Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Recognition Events
• And More!

Emergency Department Registered Nurse Job Responsibilities:

• Provide direct care to patients from infancy to adulthood
• Demonstrates understanding of triage principles of life-threatening, urgent, and non-emergent categories of ED patients, and takes appropriate actions.
• Administers prescribed medications and treatments, determining correct dosage calculations of prescribed medications in accordance with approved nursing standards.
• Utilizes 5 step nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation) to provide patient care.
• Participates in communication and problem solving with patient/significant other, health team members and other departments.
• Assesses knowledge level of patient/significant other and determines patient's priority of felt needs.
• Teaches patients about their health needs including treatments, self-care, precautions, and access to future assistance by the health care team.
• Documents appropriate components of the nursing process according to established standards.
• 8 hours of stroke or related education per year.

Job Requirements:

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing
• Current Washington State RN License
• One year experience in an emergency or acute care hospital setting preferred

Nurses with Emergency Department Experience:

• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
• Current Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Certification
• Current Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC) or Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Certification current or completed within 60 days of hire
• Trauma Nurse Care Curriculum (TNCC) proof of completion at least once in career

Nurses without Emergency Department Experience:

• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
• Current Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Certification
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) completion within 60 days of hire
• Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC) completion within 90 days of hire
• Trauma Nurse Care Curriculum (TNCC) completion within 6 months of hire

Work Environment:

The work of this position is performed inside, exposing the employee to indoor environmental conditions, protected from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The employee may be exposed to dust, pollens, pollutants, fumes, communicable diseases, bodily fluids, toxic substances, ionizing radiation, medicinal preparations and other conditions common a health care environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands:

While performing the responsibilities of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand for extended periods of time; push, pull and reach; occasionally bend, sit, stoop and stretch. The employee will need full range of body motion, including handling and lifting of patients, should have the hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity needed to operate a keyboard, photocopier, telephone, calculator and medical equipment. Normal range of hearing and eyesight to record, prepare and communicate appropriate reports are required; specific vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus. Occasionally lift and carry up to 25 pounds. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position in relation to the physical demands detailed above.

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