Registered NURSE, Emergency Dept, Per Diem Varied Shifts

Responsibilities

Northern Nevada Medical Center is a 124‑bed acute care hospital located on 23 hillside acres at 2375 E. Prater Way in Sparks, Nevada. The hospital’s tradition of providing quality healthcare in a comfortable, accessible environment brings peace of mind to the thousands of patients served each year.

• Compassion:
  We treat everyone with kindness and warmth because we genuinely care about every patient, employee and physician like they are family.
• Empathy:
  We put ourselves in our patient’s shoes and deliver clinical care with a personalized touch.
• Teamwork:
  We foster a caring and friendly work environment to bring the best possible outcomes in our patient’s lives.
• Quality:
  We strive to provide excellence in clinical care.
• Ethics:
  We conduct our business with the highest ethical and moral standards.
• Respect:
  We promise to honor the dignity, individuality and rights of everyone.
• Service Excellence:
  We provide personalized and professional service that exceeds the expectations of those we serve.
• Innovation:
  We continually invest in technology and process improvements to develop new and better ways of delivering clinical care.

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We are offering a per‑diem Emergency Department Registered Nurse position with a convenient, flexible schedule. We are looking for a dynamic, experienced ER Registered Nurse who will provide direct and indirect patient care with compassion and respect. The nurse will communicate with physicians about changes in patient conditions, respond quickly and accurately to changes in status or response to treatment, and perform general nursing duties in all departments under adequate supervision.

Must be willing to float to all units.

• Provides direct patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with other specialists as required and adjusts nursing care processes as indicated to ensure optimal patient care.
• Performs a head‑to‑toe assessment on all patients and reassessments as per policy, including pediatric, adolescent and geriatric patients as well as the general patient population.
• Uses triage process to ensure timely and appropriate care to patients, accurately assigning triage categories.
• Assesses and reassesses pain, utilizes appropriate pain management techniques, and educates the patient and family regarding pain management.

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Competitive compensation and generous paid time off
• Excellent medical, dental, vision and prescription drug plans
• 401(k) with company match and discounted stock plan
• Career development opportunities within Universal Health Services and its 300+ subsidiaries

• Current Nevada nursing license
• Current ACLS & BLS certificates
• PALS certificate (to be obtained within six months of employment)
• At least 2.5 years of ER experience required

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.