Registered Nurse - ED​/Acute​/Inpatient

Pay Range: $44.57 - $62.80

SEARHC is a non‑profit health consortium that serves the health interests of residents of Southeast Alaska. The organization prioritizes employee development and professional advancement.

Benefits include retirement, paid time off, paid parental leave, health, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability coverage.

• Provide total nursing activities and supervise subordinates for all patients/residents during working hours, assuring patient/resident safety.
• Develop and maintain a good working rapport with inter‑departmental personnel as well as other departments within the facility.
• Assist in developing and maintaining nursing objectives and standards.
• Assist in developing, implementing, and coordinating department policies and procedures, resident/patient care plans, nursing procedure manuals, job descriptions, etc.
• Interpret department policies and procedures to personnel, residents, patients, visitors, family members, etc., as necessary.
• Ensure each patient’s/resident’s right to fair and equitable treatment, self‑determination, individuality, privacy, property, and civil rights including the right to wage a complaint, are followed by the appropriate personnel.
• Assure established infection control procedures and isolation techniques are strictly followed.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, and positive environment.
• Assist in training department personnel and make recommendations to the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)/Director of Nursing (DON).
• Perform administrative requirements such as completing necessary forms, reports, etc., and submitting to the CNO/DON.
• Assist in evaluating and assisting medical, social, psychological, spiritual, restorative, and rehabilitative care plans, as well as instructions in self‑help.
• Maintain confidentiality of all pertinent patient/resident care information to ensure the patients’/residents’ rights are protected.
• Evaluate emergencies and determine emergency measures to be used.
• Make independent decisions regarding nursing care.
• Complete required record‑keeping forms on patient/resident admission, discharge, transfer, etc.
• Assure that all nurses’ notes are informative and descriptive of the nursing care provided and of the patient’s response to care.
• Notify physician of accidents and fill out/complete accident/incident report forms.
• Assure that stock levels of medications, medical supplies, equipment, etc., are maintained at adequate levels at all times. Report needs to the CNO/DON or purchasing agent.
• Attend and participate in staff/department meetings, workshops, seminars, etc., as approved.
• Give and receive nursing report upon reporting in and ending shift work hours.
• Receive verbal orders from physicians and chart on the physician’s order sheet or the electronic medical record.
• Transcribe physician’s orders to the electronic documentation system, lab slips, MAR, dietary requisitions, etc.
• Complete work requisitions for unsafe conditions or equipment repairs.
• Observe, record, and report to physician patient’s condition and reaction to drugs, treatments, and significant incidents.
• Other duties as deemed necessary and appropriate or as may be directed.

• Must be able to move intermittently throughout the workday.
• Must be able to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position.
• Must possess sight/hearing senses or use prosthetics that enable these senses to function adequately so that the position requirements can be fully met.
• Must function independently, have flexibility, personal integrity, and work effectively with patients/residents, personnel, and support agencies.
• Must be in good general health.
• Must demonstrate emotional stability.
• Must be able to relate to and work with ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and (at times) hostile people within the facility.
• May be required to line patients/residents, medical equipment, supplies, etc.

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing (Bachelor’s, Associate’s, or Diploma in nursing).
• Current full, unrestricted Registered Nursing license…