Registered Nurse

Position: Registered Nurse 1900-0730 - $10k Sign-on incentive (2025-1401)

Registered Nurse  - $10k Sign-on incentive )

• Job Title: Registered Nurse  - $10k Sign-on incentive
• Req:
• Location: VMC Main Campus, Renton, WA
• Department: Emergency Department
• Shift: Nights
• Type: Full Time
• FTE: 0.9
• Salary Range: Min $46.94 - Max $85.76/hrly, DOE

Job Description

The position description is a guide to the critical duties and essential functions of the job, not an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, qualifications, physical demands, and work environment conditions. Position descriptions are reviewed and revised to meet the changing needs of the organization.

TITLE: Registered Nurse

JOB OVERVIEW: The staff RN is a licensed professional who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame. This individual provides safe, quality care to these patients utilizing the nursing process as the basis for clinical practice.

DEPARTMENT: Any patient care area.

WORK HOURS: Assigned tour of duty hours.

REPORTS TO: Nurse Manager/Assistant Nurse Manager

Prerequisites

• BSN preferred.
• Current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in Washington.
• Successful completion of a graduate nurse residency program orientation or six months’ experience as an RN.
• AHA BLS for healthcare providers required.

Preferred for Advancement to Charge Nurse Role

• BSN
• Two years of practice in clinical nursing/leadership in the area of responsibility preferred.
• Unit specific prerequisites – see addendum.

General Qualifications

• Demonstrates leadership skills with ability to lead and manage a team, utilize clinical judgment, clinical inquiry, innovation, and systems thinking.
• Able to communicate effectively in oral and written form.
• Adheres to the Professional Appearance Policy.
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills that are community‑centered, compassionate, and meet the needs of diverse and vulnerable populations.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with all age groups.
• Practices in a caring environment with excellent customer service skills.
• Functions within ANA Standards and Nurse Practice Act.
• Ability to access information and communicate in an electronic environment including use of order entry, e‑mail, and computer documentation skills.
• Self‑directed in advancing professional practice through continuing education and research.

Unique Physical/Mental Demands, Environment and Working Conditions

Must be able to provide safe patient handling as defined in VMC's Safe Patient Handling guidelines and policies. Must lift from the floor to overhead levels and carry items at waist level up to 40 pounds, participate in team lifting, operate patient lifting equipment, stoop, bend, reach, crouch, and squat. Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time, use of full body range of motion, manual and finger dexterity, eye‑hand coordination, and corrected vision and hearing.

Essential

Responsibilities And Competencies

• Assesses, guides, directs, and facilitates workflow on the unit.
• Recognizes when charge nurse assignment is necessary and assumes that role.
• Make staff assignments reflecting patient acuity, continuity, staff competency, and admit/transfer/discharge activity.
• Mentors staff, float, and agency personnel regarding unit policies and procedures.
• Integrates new staff and agency staff into the unit culture.
• Functions as a leader and role model for clinical staff.
• Acts as clinical resource to unit staff, demonstrates safe use of patient care equipment, and teaches others.
• Identifies resource RN for LPN, PCA, and MST as necessary.
• Monitors and evaluates nursing care given to each patient.
• Assess unit/environmental safety during patient rounds and correct deficiencies.
• Maintains awareness of Joint Commission standards, state codes, and practice acts.
• Monitoring documentation, compliance with standards, and facilitating rapid turnaround cycles.
• Demonstrates excellent customer service skills.
• Responds to patient and family concerns/complaints.
• Reports significant events to supervisors and activates chain of command per policy.
• Provides input into performance appraisal of clinical staff on shift.
• Evaluates and provides adequate coverage for breaks.
• Maintains fiscal responsibility by monitoring and adjusting staffing during shift.
• Accepts personal responsibility to maintain competencies for direct patient care and team leadership.
• Communicates and collaborates with bed placement and clinical resources to expedite placement.

Unit Specific Pre-Requisites

Emergency Department RN: ACLS & PALS within 3 months of hire, NIHSS certification within 3 months, TNCC within 12 months, ENPC certification within 12 months. One year of emergency nursing experience preferred.

Additional unit requirements (PACU, Perioperative, Critical Care, etc.) are listed in the full addendum (not reproduced here to keep description concise).

Job Qualifications

All qualifications above apply universally; specific certifications and experience may be required based on unit assignment.

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