Registered Nurse - Emergency Department

Pay Range: $41.66 - $58.69

The RN provides professional nursing care across the lifespan in accordance with organizational standards, policies, and evidence‑based practice. The RN utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care while delivering high‑quality, culturally sensitive, and patient‑centered services. The RN collaborates with providers and interdisciplinary teams to promote optimal patient outcomes, safety, and positive patient experience. The Emergency Department Registered Nurse provides rapid assessment, stabilization, and treatment of patients across the lifespan presenting within emergent or urgent conditions in a fast‑paced, high‑acuity environment.

• Performs comprehensive patient assessments and develops individualized plans of care.
• Implements and evaluates nursing interventions and patient responses.
• Administers medications and treatments safely and accurately per provider orders and policy.
• Recognizes changes in patient condition and initiates appropriate interventions or escalation of care.
• Provides patient and family education related to care, medications, and discharge needs.
• Delivers culturally responsive, patient‑centered care.

• Applies critical thinking and professional judgment to perform and interpret comprehensive assessments and recognize significant changes in patient condition that require nursing intervention or provider notification.
• Determines appropriate nursing actions, interventions, and priorities, and identifies when consultation, collaboration, or escalation to a licensed independent provider is required.
• Develops, implements, evaluates, and revises individualized nursing plans of care based on patient needs, responses, preferences, and clinical circumstances, rather than relying solely on standardized protocols.
• Integrates clinical findings with ethical principles, cultural considerations, patient safety standards, and regulatory requirements when making nursing decisions.
• Accepts accountability for nursing decisions, delegated tasks, and outcomes of nursing care in accordance with Alaska statutes, regulations, and organizational policy.

• Collaborates with providers and interdisciplinary team members to coordinate care.
• Facilitates referrals, follow‑up care, and continuity of services.
• Documents assessments, interventions, and outcomes accurately and timely in the electronic health record.
• Advocates for patient care and assists patients in navigating the healthcare system.

• Adheres to regulatory, safety, and infection prevention requirements within nursing scope of practice.
• Participates in quality and performance improvement activities.
• Maintains required competencies and certifications.
• Reports adverse events, near misses, and unsafe conditions per policy.

• Demonstrates professionalism, accountability, flexibility, and teamwork.
• Provides appropriate guidance and delegation to ancillary staff.
• Supports orientation, mentoring, and education of staff, students, and peers.
• Floats to other departments or assignments as needed.

• Associate’s degree in Nursing from an accredited program.
• Current, unrestricted Registered Nurse license in the State of Alaska.
• Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC), and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) all required. Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC) preferred.
• Clinical competency required within 3 months and recertified every 3 years.
• High‑risk competency required within 3 months and recertified every year.
• New Nursing Program Graduates: BLS required at time of hire. All certifications required for the area of practice must be obtained within six (6) months of hire.
• Experienced nurses entering a new specialty must obtain all required specialty‑specific and advanced certifications within six (6) months of hire.
• Experienced nurses hired directly into a specialty area must provide evidence of…