Registered Nurse; RN) Emergency Shelter Support

Registered Nurse (RN) — Emergency Shelter Operations County / Location Lee County, FL — North Fort Myers (Southwest Florida)

Employer:

Essential Health Care Solutions, LLC Job Type: PRN / Temporary — Storm Activation

Shifts:

12-hour shifts, days/nights; up to 24/7 coverage; up to 14 days Pay:
Competitive About the Role

Essential Health Care Solutions, LLC is building a roster of Florida-licensed Registered Nurses to deliver on-site nursing care at employee shelters during hurricane and severe-weather events in Southwest Florida. As the licensed clinical anchor at a shelter, you keep the line crews, contractors, and emergency personnel working to restore power healthy, safe, and fit for duty.

At minimum, one Florida-licensed RN is maintained on-site per shelter throughout each activation. This is on-call, activation-based work ideal for nurses who want meaningful disaster-response experience and flexible, well-compensated deployments.

• 4980 Bayline Drive, North Fort Myers, FL 33917
• 141 East Mariana Avenue, North Fort Myers, FL 33917
• LCEC Basecamp, Williams Road, North Fort Myers, FL 33917

Shelter occupants may include Cooperative employees, line crews, vegetation-management contractors, mutual-aid personnel, emergency-operations staff, and authorized support personnel — populations of 50 to 500+ operating continuously for 24 hours to 14 days.

• Conduct medical screening and health assessments of shelter occupants; evaluate non-emergency illnesses and injuries; assess fitness-for-duty concerns when requested by Cooperative management
• Provide basic medical care — first aid, vital‑sign monitoring, and management of minor illnesses and injuries — consistent with standing nursing protocols
• Triage medical complaints, determine the appropriate level of care, and coordinate referral to urgent care, hospital, or EMS; document triage decisions and disposition
• Respond to on-site medical incidents within five (5) minutes (met through continuous on‑site presence) and provide emergency nursing care within scope until EMS assumes care
• Monitor for heat illness, dehydration, fatigue, infectious‑disease concerns, and mental‑health stress indicators
• Implement infection‑prevention practices (hand hygiene, PPE, surface disinfection, surveillance) and recommend isolation or mitigation measures
• Set up and manage the shelter medical station and maintain medical‑supply inventory; request replenishment as needed
• Maintain accurate documentation — service encounters, incident reports, supply‑usage reports — supporting daily operational nursing reports and the after‑action report
• Direct on‑site LPNs and CNAs and coordinate with EMS, hospitals, emergency management, and Cooperative safety personnel
• Escalate serious incidents (death, hospitalization, EMS transport, suspected outbreak, significant injury) promptly to Cooperative management and EHS leadership

• Active, unencumbered Registered Nurse license in the State of Florida (or multistate / Nurse Licensure Compact privilege valid in Florida) — required
• Current BLS certification — required (ACLS/PALS preferred)
• Ability to pass a background screening
• Ability to practice only within the scope of Florida RN licensure — no diagnosing or prescribing absent lawful medical‑oversight authorization
• Availability to deploy on short notice and work extended 12‑hour shifts in shelter/field conditions
• Preferred: prior emergency, storm, shelter, or field‑medical experience; triage experience; IC

This is activation‑based work. Deployments are triggered by storm events — from up to 72 hours before anticipated landfall, through impact, and into recovery — for periods of 24 hours to 14 consecutive days. You will work 12‑hour…