RN (Registered Nurse)
Job Description
Unit Notes
- Unit: ER
- Fast track : 4 bed fasttrack
- # beds/trauma bays: 32 beds and 6 treatment chairs
- # Psych/seclusion rooms: room set up specifically for psych but they have a large population of psych that they use other rooms for psych
- # patients per day: 208 per day, up to 317 depending how busy they are
- Certs: ACLS, BLS, PALS, NIHSS, TNCC is preferred
- Ratios: 1 to 4, 1 to 1 or 2 if ICU status
- EMR: Cerner
- Charge Nurse: yes – Assistant nurse manager on 24/7, they do not take a patient assignment
- Nurse Aides/Paramedics: ER techs – CNAs and EMT’s
- Security/Patient sitters: CNAs are patient sitters if needed, security is in lobby if needed
- Weekend Requirement: every other
- Holidays: they will work them in with perm staff rotation
- Scrub Color: navy
- Tele/Monitor Techs: Phillips -nurses must read and interpret strips, they have a unit clerk that functions like a monitor tech
- Vents: Yes
- ED Physicans/Mid-Levels: MD’s and midlevels used
- Lab Draws: nurses are not allowed to do lab draws
- IV Team: No
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: Yes
- Shifts: 12 hr shifts, 7-7, 11-11, 3-3
- Floating: they will have to float t Arroyo Grande to work their ER
- Floor specific orientation: 3 shifts
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: a lot of trauma, 30% of population is peds, stroke, STEMI’s, etc.
- Additional Notes: Candidates must have 2 years of experience or more, travel experience is preferred.