RN Emergency Services

** Job Summary and Responsibilities*
* As our Emergency Services Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To be successful in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

Responsibilities

+ Perform patient assessment/reassessment, including giving or receiving comprehensive change of shift and intermittent report, obtaining the nursing history, conducting a physical assessment, establishing priorities for care.

+ Assess patient's learning needs, readiness for discharge and ability of the patient/family/SO to manage illness after discharge.

+ Completes both computer and hand written documentation using correct format in an accurate, precise, timely, legible and complete manner .

+ Provide direct patient care, as required. Assist physician with procedures, as necessary.

+ Report changes in patient's condition to physician.

** Job Requirements*
* ** Required*
* + Other Education level necessary to obtain required licensure and certifications, upon hire and

+ Registered Nurse: CA,

+ Basic Life Support - CPR, American Heart Association (AHA)

+ Advanced Cardiac Life Support, American Heart Association (AHA)

+ Pediatric Advanced Life Support, American Heart Association (AHA)

** Preferred*
* + Bachelors Of Nursing BSN

+ 1-2 years of Emergency Nursing

+ Trauma Nurse Core Course

+ Certified Emergency Nurse

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1956, Dignity Health - Memorial Hospital is a 385-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Bakersfield, California. Serving nearly 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, maternity care, and orthopedics. Additionally, Memorial Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and its Lauren Small Children's Center is the first comprehensive pediatric program in Kern County.

One Community. One Mission. One California  ()

** Pay Range*
* $45.55 - $79.04 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.