The Registered Nurse for our Emergency Department is responsible for providing primary patient care in the Emergency Department including assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Location: Anacortes, WA, Onsite
Schedule: Days / 1 FTE
Salary Range: $37.64 - $71.35 per hour
Sign-On Bonus: $10,000
Shift Differentials:- Night: +$4.75/hr
- Weekend: +$4.00/hr
- BSN Premium: +$1.00/hr
- Certification Premium: +$1.00/hr
For Information on Employee Benefits and WSNA Contract
What you will be doing:- 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
- 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.
- Assesses own learning needs and establishes priorities and develops action plan.
- Promotes and maintains a high level of confidentiality for self and others. Respects the rights of
- Gives input to annual budget
- Must have demonstrated ability to interact positively with Administration, Directors, Managers,
- Supervisors, peers, co-workers, subordinates, patients and visitors.
- Must meet regular attendance standard and must stay at or below average sick leave utilization
- 8 hours of stroke or related education per year.
- Other duties as delegated by director.
What you will bring to the role: - Graduation from an accredited school of nursing
- Current Washington State RN License
- Nurses with Emergency Department Experience:
- Current AHA BLS certification
- Current AHA ACLS certification
- Current ENPC or PALS 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 AHA BLS certification
- Current AHA ACLS certification
- PALS completion within 60 days of hire
- ENPC completion within 90 days of hire
- Trauma Nurse Care Curriculum (TNCC) completion within 6 months of hire.
- Can identify emergent situations, and is able to perform in a calm and professional manner during the emergency situation.
- Can demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and can identify each patient's/employee's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs.
- Ability to respond in a constructive and sensitive manner to the verbal and non-verbal behavior of patients, families, visitors, peers, and other hospital personnel.
- Ability to accept constructive criticism and take action to improve.
- Ability to perform position responsibilities with emotional maturity
