ER Registered Nurse 7a-7p

About the role

Fountain Hills Medical Center is a newly established micro-hospital opening in 2021 in Fountain Hills, Arizona. It includes 8 ER beds and 5 inpatient beds with full imaging and lab facilities.

Responsibilities

• Explains procedures and treatments to patients to gain cooperation, understanding, and alleviate apprehension.
• Administers prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with approved nursing techniques.
• Prepares equipment and aids physicians during treatment and examinations of patients.
• Maintains awareness of comfort and safety needs of patients.
• Observes patients, records significant conditions and reactions, and notifies supervisors or physicians of patient conditions and drug reactions.
• Takes temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and other vital signs to detect deviations from normal and assess patient conditions.
• Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards, policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Documents nursing history and physical assessments for assigned patients.
• Initiates a patient education plan according to individualized patient and family needs, as prescribed by physicians and/or hospital policy, including patient and family instruction.
• Rotates among various clinical services such as obstetrics, surgery, orthopedics, outpatient and admitting, pediatrics, and psychiatry.
• Prepares rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, and supplies for surgery.
• Aids in procedures by handing items to surgeons, obstetricians, or other medical practitioners.
• Makes beds, bathes, and feeds patients.
• Participates in department or unit quality improvement activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university.
• Two years related ER experience and/or training.
• Ability to triage using the Emergency Severity Index.

Qualifications

• Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; two years related ER experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Reasoning ability: Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Computer skills: Basic computer knowledge, EMR.
• Certificates and licenses: Active AZ or Compact State RN License, BLS, ACLS, PALS, NRP, TNCC.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 75 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand.
• The employee is frequently required to walk.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit.