Contract Terms:
- 6-13 weeks
- 36-hour work week
- Previous Travel Experience preferred
Pay Package:
$3500 per week in taxable and nontaxable monies (exact pay package will be determined at time of offer)
Job Objective:
An Emergency Department Registered Nurse must be knowledgeable in multiple disciplines, pediatrics, obstetrics, medicine, cardiology, trauma, orthopedics, oncology, infectious disease, and psychiatry. He/she must be knowledgeable in caring for all age groups; newborns, infants, toddlers, childhood, adolescence, adult and geriatric.
Essential Duties for all RN’s in the Emergency Department:
Meets all the essential duties of a Registered Nurse.
1. Nursing Process
Applies nursing process in direct patient care.
- Skillfully practices triage of patients per Triage Policy
- Assesses patients and documents on the ED nursing T-system a minimum of
- every two hours or more often when necessary.
- Appropriately intervenes when assessment reveals an abnormal finding, examples include but are not limited to airway, breathing, circulation.
- Knowledgeable regarding pre-hospital forms.
2. Nursing Care Delivery Process
- Knowledgeable regarding current emergency nursing practices and procedures.
- Knowledgeable of the legal aspects of emergency nursing care, including but not limited to:
- Treatment and/or release of minor to someone other than parent.
- EMTALA laws regarding medical screening exams and transfer procedures.
- Procedure for medical/legal examination and collection of evidence.
- Procedure for obtaining legal blood alcohol specimen.
- Requirements for reporting suspected elder/dependent adult and child abuse/neglect.
- Coroner’s report
- After-care instructions
3. Technical Equipment
- Chest tubes, drainage system, and auto-transfuser.
- Cardio-Respiratory monitors
- Monitoring equipment; Arterial Lines, CVP, Swanz Ganz, ICP.
- Invasive and non-invasive blood pressure monitoring.
- Crash cart/defibrillator (external and internal), ambu bag.
- Oxygen saturation/pulse oximetry
- Fluid warmer
- 12 lead ECG
- Pacemaker, internal and external
- Competent operation of ReddiNet communication System
Required Licensure and/or Certifications:
- Current California Registered Nursing license (or EMSA)
- BLS
- ACLS
- PALS
- NIHSS
- MAB/CPI