RN Pediatric Emergency Department

About the Role

As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

Responsibilities

Follow the nursing process which includes: assess, plan, implement, and evaluate. The nursing process is an ongoing process that can end at any stage.

• Assessment - Demonstrates a systematic, dynamic way to collect and analyze healthcare consumer data including: psychological, physiological, sociocultural, spiritual, economic, and lifestyle factors.
• Plan – Sets measurable and achievable short and long-term goals according to standards of care based on the assessment by the nurse in collaboration with the healthcare consumer and multidisciplinary team.
• Implement – Implements and/or modifies the plan of care using assessment data, clinical reasoning based upon standards of care and evidence-based practice. This includes care coordination, education, and discharge planning. The nurse is accountable for the care directly, indirectly, or through delegation. Professional and legal standards for delegation must be followed.
• Evaluate – Uses a systematic ongoing process to evaluate progress towards identified healthcare consumer goals. Revision of plan of care when needed involving the healthcare consumer and the multidisciplinary team. Documents all phases of the nursing process in the healthcare consumer’s record.

Requirements

• Graduate of an RN nursing program
• Registered Nurse (RN) license in Nebraska, upon hire
• Basic Life Support (BLS) - CPR, upon hire
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), within 5 months
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), within 5 months
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), within 6 months

About the Workplace

CHI Health St. Elizabeth, founded by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in 1889, is a full-service, 260-bed, nonprofit regional medical center in Lincoln, Nebraska. St. Elizabeth specializes in newborn and pediatric care, women’s health, burn and wound care, cardiology, oncology, emergency medicine, orthopedics, and neuroscience.

We have an accredited Stroke Center, a verified Burn Center, and a State of Nebraska designated Level 3 Trauma Center, meaning our staff is specially trained to treat stroke, burn, and trauma patients as quickly as possible. We are also recognized as one of the nation's top hospitals for quickest response times to heart attacks.

We are home to one of only a few Pediatric Universal bed model units, where specialty pediatric care is provided in the same room for all levels of care. We work in tandem with Emergency Room Providers, Pediatric Hospitalists, and Specialists to provide expert care locally.

Pay

$36.00 - $52.20 per hour