Job Description
Responsibilities
When it comes to choosing a hospital, one thing is clear : quality and convenience count. Northern Nevada Medical Center 's tradition of providing quality healthcare in a comfortable, accessible environment means peace of mind for the thousands of patients served by the hospital each year.
Northern Nevada Medical Center is a -bed acute care hospital located on hillside acres at 5 E. Prater Way in Sparks, Nevada.
What we at Northern Nevada Medical Center value :
- Compassion : We treat everyone with kindness and warmth because we genuinely care about every patient, employee and physician like they are family.
- Empathy : We put ourselves in our patient’s shoes and deliver clinical care with a personalized touch.
- Teamwork : We foster a caring and friendly work environment to bring the best possible outcomes in our patient’s lives.
- Quality : We strive to provide excellence in clinical care.
- Ethics : We conduct our business with the highest ethical and moral standards.
- Respect : We promise to honor the dignity, individuality and rights of everyone.
- Service Excellence : We provide personalized and professional service that exceeds the expectations of those we serve.
- Innovation : We continually invest in technology and process improvements to develop new and better ways of delivering clinical care.
Learn more at northernnevadahealth.com
This Emergency Department Registered Nurse opportunity is per diem and offers a convenient flexible schedule. We are looking for a dynamic experienced ER Registered Nurse.
You will provide direct and indirect patient care to our patients with compassion and respect. You will communicate with physicians about changes in patient’s clinical condition.
Is able to respond quickly and accurately to changes in condition or response to treatment. Additionally, is able to perform general nursing duties in all departments with adequate supervision.
Must be willing to float to all units.
Job Duties / Responsibilities :
- Provides direct patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with other specialists as required and adjusts nursing care processes as indicated to ensure optimal patient care
- Ability to perform a head-to-toe assessment on all patients and reassessments as per policy. This includes pediatric, adolescent and geriatric patients and the general patient population.
- Uses triage process to ensure timely and appropriate care to patients. Accurately assigns triage categories.
- Ability to adequately assess and reassess pain. Utilizes appropriate pain management techniques. Educates the patient and family regarding pain management.
Benefits for full and part time employees :
- Challenging and rewarding work environment
- Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
- Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
K) with company match and discounted stock plan
- Career development opportunities within UHS and its + Subsidiaries!
- More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website : benefits.uhsguest.com
Universal Health Services :
Qualifications
- Current NV nursing license
- Current ACLS & BLS certificate
- PALS certificate (to be obtained within six months of employment)
- At least 2.5 years of ER experience required.