Registered Nurse Emergency Room

Job Summary and Responsibilities

Nurses are at the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success. We offer Certification pay and a Clinical Career Ladder to help you grow and recognize your contributions to clinical excellence!

The Emergency Department herine Hospital has 14 beds including 7 bed Fast Track. We treat all ED patients and also do outpatient care in the afternoons as needed. Here, we see traumas, chest pain, strokes, sepsis and all other medical patients. Our mission is to treat others how you would like to be treated. This is a desirable department since we have a set schedule, are rural and tend to get some very interesting cases.

We have a behavioral health inpatient unit and take care of a lot of behavioral health patients. In our department, we look for dependable team players.

As a Registered Nurse (RN) you will assume responsibility and accountability for:

• Facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team, and the patient/family to identify and meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient.
• Promote the optimal health, well-being and safety of the patient through use of the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines and the State Nurse Practice Act.
• Demonstrate personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.

In addition to bringing human kindness to the workplace each day, qualified nursing candidates will need the following:

• Associates Degree in Nursing required;
  Nursing Diploma or by endorsement
• Bachelors Degree in Nursing preferred
• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing required for new graduates, preferred for experienced RNs

• One RN Emergency Room experience required
• Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty

• RN License required;
  Current state nursing licenses or valid RN license from a participating state in the National Licensure Compact
• BLS from AHA
• ACLS from AHA
• EPNC or PALS required
• NIHSS required
• TNCC required within one year of start date

• Medium Work - (Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally, and/or up to 20lbs frequently, and/or up to 10lbs constantly)

PRN requirement is 5 shifts in 6 weeks. Must be able to pick up night shifts.

PRN differential is 10%.

New Grads:
We encourage you to consider our Nurse Residency Program designed for new graduate nurses. Our Nurse Residency Program offers Vizient’s nationally-recognized curriculum developed by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). This evidence-based curriculum, delivered by leaders and mentors who care about your success, will help you become the nursing professional you’ve always envisioned. To learn more about the programs, timelines and FAQs, please visit New Grad RN Residency site here.

St. Catherine Hospital, located in Garden City, Kansas, was founded by two pioneering physicians and the Dominican Sisters. They created and maintained the spirit that has enabled St. Catherine Hospital employees to develop a thriving health care facility unlike any other in southwest Kansas. Like many of the families and businesses in our community, our roots run deep – 85 years of excellence and counting.

Residents of Garden City enjoy life in a relaxed, small-town (population approx. 30,000) with a zoo, several parks, golf courses, modern shopping and more.