Emergency Room RN

Company: Las Palmas Medical Center
Location: El Paso
Posted on: February 19, 2021

Job Description:

Description SHIFT: Nights (rotating weekends)
SCHEDULE: Full-time

About Las Palmas Medical Center Las Palmas Medical Center offers comprehensive services and special expertise in Emergency Room Medicine (Level III Trauma), Cardiology, Women s Services, Labor & Delivery, Neonatal Intensive Care, Neuroscience, Pediatric care, and Wound Care Management. Las Palmas Medical Center is also the only Kidney Transplant Center in the Region. Las Palmas Rehabilitation Hospital is a separate facility with newly renovated patient rooms, exercise equipment and cafeteria. The physicians, nurses and staff at our 325-bed facility are committed to caring for our community with compassionate, quality healthcare. Benefits We offer an excellent total compensation package, for various positions including competitive salary, excellent benefit package and growth opportunities. We believe in our team and your ability to do excellent work with us. Your benefits include 401k, PTO medical, dental, flex spending, life, disability, tuition reimbursement, student loan assistance, and employee discount program. We would love to talk to you about this fantastic opportunity. POSITION SUMMARY: To provide professional nursing care to patients utilizing the nursing process. To collaborate with other members of the health care delivery team including physicians to deliver quality health care. POPULATION SERVED: Core competencies will be assessed primarily on the following patient population served: Triage, assess and treat patients of all ages presenting for emergency care for all body systems, conditions, and diseases including but not limited to: coronary, pulmonary, neurological, skeletal-muscular, gastro intestinal, metabolic, gastro urinary/renal, gynecological, integumentary, etc. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Demonstrates knowledge and application of the nursing process
• Participates and cooperates in the unit based quality improvement process
• Supports, maintains and provides an environment which is supportive of quality patient care through effective use of resources and personnel
• Practices, develops, and endorses customer service skills in relationships with internal and external customers
• Serves as the patient and family advocate with respect to the patient s right to privacy by protecting confidential information
• Knowledgeable with 100% compliance with core measures in the emergency department (evidence based and best practice demonstrated)
• Knowledgeable with premium credit (best practice demonstrated)
• Documents patient assessment, patient care, interventions, and reassessment according to ED policy
• Provides excellent customer services following the philosophy of the hospital and ED with the guiding values in daily activities
• Plans and implements patient care and teaching based on a total assessment and the age of the patient
• Evaluates and documents patient response, monitors and recognizes changes in physiological and psychosocial status, takes appropriate action based on assessment of the patient
• Accompanies critical care transport to higher level of care facility in accordance with physician orders and in compliance with EMTALA transfer guidelines should the need arise
• Other duties as assigned. Qualifications REQUIRED LICENSURE/CERTIFICATIONS
  • Current RN licensure in Texas or compact state required
  • BCLS Required
  • ACLS and PALS certification required (Applicable to FSED)
  • Those candidates with no recent ED experience will have 6 months after hire to complete ACLS and PALS education/certification (Applicable to Main ED)
  • TNCC required within 12 months of employment or transfer to the department
  • Successful completion of triage training within one year of employment REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
    • Diploma, ADN or BSN
    • 1 Year ED Experience required (Applicable to FSED) PREFERRED EDUCATION, LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES
      • BSN preferred
      • ENPC
      • Certified Emergency Nurse
      • Acute care experience
      • Pre-hospital experience
      • Minimum 2 yrs. emergency department experience
      • Medical surgical nursing experience
      • Reads and writes Basic English with skills to interpret and execute physician orders required
      • Ability to listen empathize and respond to patient, family, internal and external partner needs Notice Our Company s recruiters are here to help unlock the next possibility within your career and we take your candidate experience very seriously. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. The recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Gmail or Yahoo Mail. If you feel suspicious of a job posting or job-related email, let us know by clicking here .For questions about your job application or this site please contact HCAhrAnswers at 1-844-###-#### option 1. Associated topics: ambulatory, bsn, care unit, ccu, maternal, mhb, neonatal, staff nurse, surgical, unit

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