Clinical Registered Nurse II - Specialty A-LGH Emergency Room-FT/7p-7a

About the role

The Clinical Registered Nurse (RN) II is responsible for managing individualized patient care by promoting and restoring patients' health in accordance with medical and nursing plans of care and established policies and procedures. The RN collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members in the development, execution, and evaluation of the multidisciplinary plan of care, assumes a full patient assignment, and can plan, analyze, intervene, and set goals for patient care accordingly. This nurse provides nursing services to patients and families in accordance with the scope of the RN as defined by the Virginia Board of Nursing, maintains a safe care environment, and delivers quality care.

Responsibilities

• Assessment: Conducts individualized patient assessments, prioritizes data collection based on immediate condition or needs, performs ongoing assessments, and integrates nursing interventions into the multidisciplinary plan of care.
• Planning: Develops, modifies, and integrates individualized care plans that incorporate medical and interdisciplinary plans, establishes measurable patient goals in consultation with patients, families, and the health‑care team.
• Intervention: Performs ordered treatments accurately and timely, delivers therapeutic nursing interventions, recognizes and responds to urgent or emergent risks, initiates emergency resuscitative measures, and provides culturally sensitive, non‑discriminatory care.
• Evaluation: Evaluates patient responses to care, initiates changes to the interdisciplinary care plan, problem‑solves with the specialty team, and documents assessments, interventions, and progress.
• Patient Education: Identifies learning needs, adapts education to patient/family abilities, ensures knowledge demonstration, and supports patient/family treatment decisions.
• Self and Peer Learning: Assesses personal learning needs, maintains competency in the nursing specialty, attends required and optional educational programs, reviews professional publications, and may participate in professional societies.
• Collaboration: Makes sound judgments coordinating complex patient care demands, supervises delegated care, and reports changes in patient condition to appropriate personnel.
• Service Recovery: Participates in service recovery, utilizes appropriate resources during complex situations, and handles conflict resolution promptly and consistently.
• Resource Utilization and Stewardship: Supports appropriate resource utilization, serves as a preceptor/mentor, assists with orientation and evaluation of students, and may be trained for or function in a charge nurse role.
• Improvement Activities: Participates in data collection for quality assurance, identifies recurring practice concerns, engages in nurse‑sensitive quality initiatives, and demonstrates safety behaviors such as “Speak Up for Safety.”
• Research/Evidence‑Based Practice/Quality Improvement Projects: May participate in research or evidence‑based practice projects, communicate findings to peers, interpret quality improvement data, and contribute to methods that improve quality of care.
• Ethics: Maintains confidentiality, protects patient autonomy, dignity, and rights, serves as a patient advocate, and upholds professional role boundaries.
• Other Duties: Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Required Education: Diploma or Associate Degree in Nursing.
• Required Experience: One (1) year of nursing (RN) experience.
• Required Certifications and Licensures: Registered Nurse license in the Commonwealth of Virginia (or compact license to practice in Virginia) and AHA BLS Provider certification.
• Additional Specialty Requirements:
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support – Cath Lab/Electrophysiology, Operating Room, Critical Care (All), Endoscopy, PACU, Interventional Radiology, Birth Center, Centra Specialty Hospital, Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery, Plastic Surgery (Registered Nurse Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery).
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support – Pediatrics.
  • Advanced and Pediatric Advanced Life Support – Emergency Department.

Pay

Salary Range: $34.89/hr. – $54.08/hr.