Advanced Practice Nurse - Emergency Room (Nights)

Work Schedule: 3 x 12 hour shifts - 7pm-7am, rotating weekends

Sign on Bonus: $15,000

Shift: Night (United States of America)

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance

403-B Retirement Plan

Whole Person Well-being Resources

Mental Health Resources and Support

Conduct comprehensive patient assessments through observation, interviews, and physical examinations to gather patient history and vital signs, identifying physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs.

Develop and implement individualized care plans based on assessment data, setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals in collaboration with patients, families, and healthcare teams.

Administer medications and treatments safely, including oral, intravenous, and intramuscular forms, and perform necessary medical procedures such as wound care, catheterization, and IV therapy, ensuring accurate and safe execution.

Provide patient and family education about health conditions, treatments, and self-care practices, developing and delivering tailored educational materials and programs, and offering discharge instructions and follow-up care plans.

Advocate for patient health and safety by acting as a liaison between patients and the healthcare system, protecting patient rights and confidentiality, and securing necessary resources to improve patient outcomes.

Administers all types of medications correctly per age group for all populations served according to policy.

Demonstrates proficient technical skills and operational knowledge of all equipment used on the unit.

Supervises Nursing Assistants in basic nursing functions, demonstrating standard procedures for safe patient ambulation and transfers, checking, turning, repositioning bedfast, and or, incontinent patients every two hours.

Serves as a preceptor as necessary.

Gather data/assess/reassess all populations served and do primary assessment of all newly admitted or transferred patients and completes hard cop care plans for each chart.

Documents/communicates clearly and concisely patient data, initiates and implements phone and verbal physician orders promptly and accurately as needed, collaborates with other members of the healthcare team as needed including the Assistant Nurse Manager and/or Charge RN, other RNs, and physicians, under HIPAA and confidentiality policy.

Collaborates on Care Plan input.

Timely collaboration with to establish priorities in planning, organizing, and implementing patient care based on nursing assessment, and taking into consideration the patient/family’s psychosocial/cultural/circumstantial situations. Timely collaboration with RNs to evaluate patient response to nursing interventions.

Demonstrates recognition of emergency codes, infection control, life safety, and fire plan, age-specific safety concerns, proper body mechanics and ergonomics, and implements measures to meet these needs when they arise in collaboration with the RN. Supervises nursing assistant staff during these events.

Understands the Computerized Physician Order Entry Process and proficiently uses the electronic medical record for retrieval of patient information.

Monitors Electronic Medical Record for new physician orders and diagnostic results.

This includes, but is not limited to: the patients known medical and nursing plan of care, medications, tests and procedures, disease process, and discharge instructions. Initiates and documents the education provided including the patient response and outcomes. Initiates referrals to healthcare providers as necessary.

Must be fluent in English (read, verbal and written skills).

Associate's of Nursing [Required]

Bachelor's of Nursing [Preferred]

Work Experience

1+ prior hospital/acute care nursing experience. [RN experience [Required]

Inpatient Obstetric Nursing (RNC-OB) [Preferred]

Certified Nephrology Nurse (CNN) [Preferred]

Certified Dialysis Nurse (CDN) [Preferred]

Acute/Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (CCNS) [Preferred]

Electronic Fetal Monitoring (CEFM) [Preferred]

Certified Pediatric Nurse (CPN) [Preferred]

Registered Nurse (RN) [Preferred]

Oncology Nurse Society (ONS) [Preferred]

Low Risk Neonatal Nursing (RNCLRN) [Preferred]

Maternal Newborn Nursing (RNCMNN) [Preferred]

Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing (RNCNIC) [Preferred]

Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) [Preferred]

Certified Med-Surg Nurse (CMSRN) [Preferred]

This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances.

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