REGISTERED NURSE, RN - EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

The RN assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the care for a designated group of patients in the Emergency Department. The RN coordinates, directs and actively participates as an effective member of the interdisciplinary health care team, contributing to the efficient operation of the unit and promoting positive patient outcomes.

Requirements

• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending education workshops, review professional publications, establish personal networks, and participate in professional societies.
• Assure quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards, making or recommending necessary adjustments, and following system/hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
• Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.

Benefits

• Current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Pennsylvania
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) approved curriculum of the American Heart Association (CPR and AED) program
• Act 33 with renewal
• Act 34 with renewal
• Act 73 FBI Clearances
• Current PALS or completion within one year of hire/transfer date into department
• Current ACLS or completion within one year of hire/transfer date into department
• NIH Stroke Scale – current or within 6 months of hire/transfer date into department