Registered Nurse- Emergency Department

Job Description The Emergency Department at Saint Luke's South Hospital is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse (RN) to join our team.

As an RN in our Emergency Department, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment that demands critical thinking and skilled care delivery.

You will collaborate with a wide range of healthcare professionals to treat complex, acute cases that require timely and coordinated responses.

• Full Time Nights (7p-7a)

SLS Emergency Department is a 12-bed unit caring for people with sudden illnesses, injuries, and severe, life-threatening medical needs.

In the ED, you will experience a continuum of medical issues that will test your skills and abilities to rapidly recognize, prioritize, and initiate care to stabilize crisis conditions.

We manage cardiac arrests, respiratory emergencies, STEMIs, strokes, sepsis, overdoses, chest tubes, diabetic events, seizures, GI bleeds, orthopedic injuries, OB emergencies, and deliveries.

We have great teamwork, a positive culture, and great working relationships with our providers that drives our success and satisfaction.

• Responsible for performing patient care, delegating patient care tasks and for supervision of other patient care staff.
• Responsible for coordinating the plan of care for a group of assigned patients and consulting with other members of the health care team when indicated to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
• This clinical nurse demonstrates proficiency and abides by policies, rules, guidelines and procedures.
• Accountable for utilizing the nursing process.

• RN license in Kansas (or compact state)

• Medical health plans
• Tuition reimbursement
• Leave of Absence, PTO, and various Welfare plans
• Retirement contributions
• Employee Assistance Program
• Clinical Advancement Program – Shared Governance, Unit Based Project, Career Advancement

• Less than 1 year Basic Life Support
  - American Heart Association or Red Cross, Registered Nurse
  - Various Associate Degree

• Full Time Night (United States of America)
• Saint Luke’s Health System includes 18 hospitals and campuses across the Kansas City region, home care and hospice, behavioral health care, dozens of physician practices, a life care senior living community, and more.

Find out more about what Saint Luke’s offers: http://www.saintlukeskc.org/about-saint-lukes