Registered Nurse, Emergency Department Rotating

Emergency Department | Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital–Milton

When you join the growing BILH team, you’re not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Where You’ll Work
You’ll join a community-based Emergency Department that delivers high-quality, compassionate care to a diverse patient population. Our ED is fast‑paced yet collaborative, fostering a close‑knit team environment where adaptability, communication, and mutual respect are essential.

Care is delivered through a geographic, team‑based model, with nurses working in small care teams supported by Emergency Department technicians. Nurses collaborate directly with an attending physician, allowing for efficient workflow, strong clinical partnership, and continuity of care.

This setting is well suited for nurses who appreciate hands‑on practice and meaningful engagement in patient care within a community hospital environment.

Provide direct, patient‑and family‑centered emergency care across a wide range of conditions. Practice using the Nursing Process and in accordance with Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) standards. Utilize nurse‑driven protocols and exercise independent clinical judgment. Collaborate closely with physicians, physician assistants, technicians, and specialty teams. Support patients and families not only clinically, but emotionally and holistically during vulnerable moments. Nurses are encouraged and supported to practice to the full scope of their license, with leadership that values nursing expertise as essential to patient outcomes.

• High level of nursing autonomy with strong medical and leadership support
• A robust nursing culture built on trust, teamwork, and professional respect
• Nursing and physician leadership that are fully integrated into daily practice
• Community‑focused care with standards aligned to a major academic medical system
• A workplace that values compassion, adaptability, and continuous growth

Under the general supervision of the Nurse Manager, or designee, and with‑in the framework of the RN license, participates in the following activities:

• Provides direct care to patients utilizing the Nursing Process to provide patient centered care
• Systematically assesses the health status of the patient
• Analyzes and interprets data and makes nursing judgments regarding care
• Plans, implements and coordinates nursing interventions
• Evaluates outcome of nursing interventions
• Revises/updates plan of care
• Documents nursing process clearly and concisely
• Communicates nursing plan effectively
• Coordinates the care of patients and directs assistive personnel in order to provide safe, effective, equitable and timely patient centered care
• Develops relationships with patients and families that maintain and communicate trust and respect
• Demonstrates the ability to act as a patient advocate
• Demonstrates awareness of environmental forces on the health care of the patients and their families
• Considers specific cultural beliefs and practices when caring for patients
• Utilizes interpreter services for patients with limited English proficiency
• Provides care appropriate to the age groups of patients regularly served; applies knowledge of growth and development when caring for patients of all ages
• Works in a collegial and collaborative relationship with other health care providers to determine the needs of the patients and their families and communicates effectively in the exchange of information to ensure quality and continuity of care
• Effectively participates in all ‘Hand Off’ communication without exception: shift to shift, from ED to inpatient areas, RN to MD
• Adheres to infection control protocols and policies
• Maintains annual mandatory education requirements, which include emergency skills and unit based competencies
• Identifies the need for continued growth and development by attending and/or participating in in‑house or outside training programs to improve and augment skills and knowledge
• Performs safely and efficiently in emergency situations, assessing, planning and evaluating care to meet rapidly changing patient and family needs
• Participates in activities that…