Registered Nurse (RN) - Emergency Department (ED) (Full Time/Evenings)

Work location: Texas Health Dallas, 8200 Walnut Hill Lane, Dallas, TX 75231

Schedule

Full Time/Evenings (1p-1a); Variable Shifts
Weekend and holiday requirements

About the role

• Self-Scheduling that helps with work life balance
• Opportunities for educational and career growth
• Robust Unit Based Council (UBC) and engaged leadership team
• Fast-paced, high-volume department averaging 200 patients per day

Requirements

• Nursing Diploma in Nursing required or
• Associate's degree in nursing required or
• Bachelor's degree in nursing preferred
• 1 year of experience as a registered nurse or completion of an RN residency program required
• 1 year of emergency department acute care experience strongly preferred
• RN - Registered upon hire required
• BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly required
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 90 days of hire required
• PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support within 90 days of hire required
• CPI - Crisis Prevention Intervention training annually within 90 days required
• TNCC - Trauma Nursing Core Course within 6 months required or
• ATCN - Advanced Trauma Care Nurse within 6 months required
• A high degree of confidentiality, positive interpersonal skills, and ability to function in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Basic human needs - responds to other's priorities regarding safety, physical, psychological and social needs
• Human Respect - Honors worth of humans through unconditional acceptance as evidenced by handling of the body with care; demonstrating knowledge of patient rights and incorporating into daily practice and calling patient by their name
• Appreciation of Unique Meanings - concerned with understanding others frame of reference
• Affiliation Needs - Engages family/caregivers in health care situations, families, physicians, peers and other duties
• Mutual Problem Solving - professional behaviors that help patients and families understand how to confront, learn about, and think about their health and illness; involves reciprocal, shared approach with resulting decisions acceptable to involved parties
• Delivery of high quality of patient care through nursing education, nursing research and innovations in nursing practice

Benefits

• 401k
• PTO
• Medical, Dental
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flex Spending
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan Forgiveness
• Strong Unit Based Council (UBC)
• A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth

About Texas Health Dallas

For more than a half-century, Texas Health Dallas has been at the forefront of health care in North Texas. We're an 875-bed, Magnet-designated, full-service hospital serving our community in and around Dallas since 1966. We specialize in cancer care, cardiology, neurosciences, women's services and emergency medicine. Plus, we're a renowned Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a Comprehensive Stroke and Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence and provide wellness services, outpatient surgery and women's imaging services. Texas Health Dallas is a joint Commission-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center, a Level I Trauma Center, a Comprehensive Heart Attack Center and a designated Magnet hospital. We're a top choice in North Texas for cancer and emergency services, bariatric services, cardiac care and much more.