Registered Nurse - Emergency Room - FT Nights: Job ID 191371

North Shore Medical Center is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Emergency Department on a full-time night shift basis. In this role, you will provide direct nursing care to patients requiring complex assessments and interventions in a fast-paced emergency setting. You will work with patients across all age groups and backgrounds, delivering care in accordance with established organizational policies, procedures, and protocols.

Responsibilities

• Collect comprehensive assessment data pertinent to patients' health status and situations
• Triage patients using age-appropriate, developmentally appropriate, and culturally sensitive practices to prioritize care and optimize patient flow
• Analyze assessment data to determine diagnoses and clinical issues
• Identify expected outcomes and develop individualized care plans
• Implement, coordinate, and provide patient education to promote health and maintain a safe practice environment
• Evaluate progress toward attainment of care outcomes
• Communicate effectively in a variety of formats across all areas of practice
• Demonstrate leadership in the professional practice setting
• Maintain current knowledge and competence in nursing practice
• Apply evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge to emergency nursing care, ensuring interventions are tailored to patients' age-specific and clinical needs
• Work with constant alertness and maintain safe practices
• Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• No prior nursing experience required

Physical Requirements

• Constant use of speech for oral communication
• Constant standing and walking
• Frequent lifting and carrying of objects weighing 0-25 lbs
• Frequent pushing and pulling of objects weighing 0-25 lbs
• Frequent sitting, reaching, and keyboard use/data entry
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) distances, and ability to identify and distinguish colors
• Frequent use of smell to detect and recognize odors
• Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds, and hear alarms or malfunctioning machinery
• Occasional lifting and carrying of objects weighing 25-50 lbs
• Occasional pushing and pulling of objects weighing 25-50 lbs
• Occasional lifting and moving of patients
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping, and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements

Schedule

• Full-time, night shift

Compensation and Benefits

• Hourly pay is negotiable based on experience
• Competitive market pay
• Performance bonuses available for full-time employees based on work performance
• Comprehensive employee benefits for full-time employees including medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Opportunities for training and professional development and advancement within the medical field

Job ID: 191371