Registered Nurse - Emergency/Urgent Care

Saratoga Hospital

β€’ $79K β€” $111K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing required; AAS in Nursing acceptable with completion of BSN in five years.
  • 3 years of Emergency or Urgent Care experience required.

Responsibilities

  • Perform comprehensive patient assessments to inform care planning and interventions.
  • Communicate effectively with patients and healthcare teammates, ensuring clarity and cultural sensitivity.
  • Utilize critical thinking skills to resolve issues and support clinical decisions based on evidence.
  • Foster caring relationships with patients and families, ensuring their involvement and dignity in care processes.
  • Manage time and resources effectively to prioritize care and adapt to changing patient needs.
  • Demonstrate leadership in coordinating care and providing constructive feedback to colleagues.
  • Teach patients and families about health management, focusing on their individual learning needs.

Benefits

  • Flexible scheduling options to support work-life balance.
  • Opportunities for professional development and continuing education.
  • Supportive team environment with a focus on relationship-based care.
  • Access to comprehensive healthcare benefits, including mental health resources.
  • Employee wellness programs to promote health and well-being.
Full Job Description
Registered Nurse

Salary Range:Salary Range: $38.00 - $53.81

What You Bring
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Candidates with AAS in Nursing who will complete BSN within five years of date of hire will be considered. 3 years of Emergency or Urgent Care experience required.

πŸ” What You'll Do
  • Patient Assessments: Incorporates appropriate assessment and intervention skills that are age specific in all interactions and delivery of nursing care. Assesses patients' physical/psycho-social status. Analyzes relevant data. Integrates assessment results in care planning, goals and outcomes. Provides therapeutic interventions based on continued assessment, prescribed orders and input from other care providers. Provides for adequate pain management, manages IV therapy and administers medications according to critical elements. Provides for patient/colleague/self-safety and protection.
  • Communication: Communicates with patients, colleagues, providers, and management in an accurate, considerate, and timely manner. Applies patient-specific communication skills in interactions that are culturally sensitive & appropriate to age. Language barriers and sensory & cognitive deficits are accommodated. Provides reports that are pertinent and concise using SBAR. Documents in a complete, timely and concise manner.
  • Problem-Solving: Employs critical thinking skills to achieve outcomes and solve problems. Practices within limits of experience/capability. Collects and integrates data from multiple sources and seeks assistance/information appropriately. Analyzes data critically in order to support clinical decision-making. Displays an ability to solve problems, reason and learn to utilize evidenced-based practice.
  • Caring Relationships: Engages in caring relationships that integrate the influence of the human experience of health, illness, and/or healing. Relationship-based care is fostered with patients, their families and co-workers to create a caring and healing environment where pts/their families are the center of caring processes. Initiates non-task-related introduction, converses at eye level when able, uses touch as appropriate, keeps patients/families informed, involves patients/families in decision-making, anticipates needs, responds to concerns in a timely manner, rounds frequently on the 3 P's when applicable. Protects patient autonomy, dignity and rights. Advocates for patients/families, including obtaining advanced directives when applicable. Expedites discharges per guidelines.
  • Time Management: Manages own work and material resources effectively. Delivers organized care by prioritizing care needs and tasks effectively. Positively adapts to changes in patients' condition, assignment and expectations. Maintains a clean, orderly environment of care.
  • Leadership: Applies leadership skills consistent with role and experience. Delegates and/or assign care that is consistent with the role, scope of practice, and abilities of the recipient. Provides feedback pertinent to the situation that is positive and/or provides co-workers educational opportunities. Co-ordinates care within the multidisciplinary team. Manages conflict in a capable, effective manner. Actively participates and promotes professional practice by participating in committees, councils, policy development, or professional organizations.
  • Teaching: Incorporates teaching in the delivery of care to promote health and prevent disease. Provides information to patient/family with consideration for individual needs. Assess for barriers to learning and motivation. Teaches patient/family to safely take and monitor effects of medications. Prepares a patient/family for prescribed treatment/procedure/discharge. Consults a multidisciplinary team as appropriate to enhance patient/family education. Provides counseling for health behaviors.

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