Registered Nurse Free Standing Emergency Room
About the role
As a Registered Nurse in our Free Standing Emergency Room, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn – whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.
Job summary
Our freestanding emergency departments offer experienced emergency nurses the opportunity to continue practicing high-quality emergency care in a smaller, community-based setting. Compared with a large hospital emergency department, the environment often provides a more manageable and predictable patient flow, a close-knit care team, and greater opportunity for individualized patient education and connection. You will continue to use your emergency nursing skills while caring for patients across a wide range of conditions. Because the department operates with a smaller on-site team, nurses also practice with a high level of autonomy, collaboration, and accountability. Patients requiring a higher level of care are stabilized and transferred to the appropriate hospital setting. This may be an ideal opportunity for an experienced emergency nurse who enjoys emergency medicine but is seeking a more focused practice environment with supportive leadership and strong team relationships.
What you will do
- Practice emergency nursing in a smaller, community-based setting with a close-knit interdisciplinary team
- Experience a generally more predictable patient flow than a large hospital-based emergency department while maintaining your emergency assessment, stabilization, and critical-thinking skills
- Build stronger connections with patients through individualized care, education, and follow-up planning
- Work with a high degree of autonomy and collaboration, with established processes for stabilizing and transferring patients who require a higher level of care
Schedule
Night-shift; 3 12-hour shifts; tight-knit team; engaging & supportive leadership. Position will support both Free Standing Locations in Johnson County (Shawnee & Olathe).
Qualifications
- Graduate of accredited nursing school, ADN or BSN required
- Currently licensed as a registered professional nurse in the state(s) of practice and/or has an active compact license, in accordance with law and regulation
- American Heart Association (AHA) BLS required
- Current AHA ACLS to be obtained within 90 days of hire
- NIH Stroke training to be completed successfully within 90 days of hire
- TNCC required within 6 months of hire
- ENPC required within 6 months of hire
- PALS is preferred
- 1-year ER experience required
Benefits
Overland Park Regional Medical Center offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts