Job Summary
Emergency Room – Los Angeles, California. The Emergency Room role supports care for pediatric and adult patients in a high-acuity, combined emergency setting. The position requires strong emergency nursing skills, pediatric competency, travel experience, and the ability to work night shifts with scheduled weekend coverage.
Job Details
- Schedule: Night shift, 12-hour shifts, 36 hours per week, with four weekend shifts per four-week schedule block.
- Required Qualifications: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN); Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certifications; active California nursing license; at least 2 years of experience; prior travel experience; experience with the Epic electronic medical record; pediatric patient experience; ability to interpret and manage dysrhythmias, care for patients with multisystem organ dysfunction or failure, manage central lines, administer continuous intravenous sedation and intravenous vasopressors, manage BiPAP/CPAP, interpret arterial blood gases, care for ventilated patients, apply isolation precautions and personal protective equipment, and perform triage.
- Preferred Qualifications: Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) certification; National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification; trauma, adult or pediatric emergency room, and pediatric experience; prior charge experience; experience in a teaching setting; and Trauma Level I or Trauma Level II experience.
- Additional Information:
- Care is provided to neonates, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients.
- The setting includes a Level I trauma center, combined adult and pediatric emergency department, ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) center, comprehensive stroke center, transplant center, and teaching environment.
- Clinical presentations may include chest pain, shortness of breath, abdominal pain, burns, trauma, behavioral health concerns, seizures, sepsis, respiratory illness, substance withdrawal, altered mental status, anemia, hypoxia, stroke, pneumonia, sickle cell crisis, traumatic brain injury, urinary tract infection, fluid overload, congenital cardiac conditions, cardiac arrest, overdose, allergic reactions, orthopedic trauma, acute kidney injury, and eye complaints.
- Interdisciplinary support includes physical therapy, respiratory services, interpretation services, phlebotomy, radiology, social services, lift teams, rapid response teams, pharmacy, transportation, and unit secretary services.
- Specialized equipment includes extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
Benefits
The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:
- Private housing or generous housing allowance
- Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
- Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
- Competitive salaries
- Referral bonuses
- Travel reimbursement
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Direct deposit/free checking
- Unlimited free CE credits
