Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Emergency Room. This position provides comprehensive nursing care by assessing patient needs, developing and implementing individualized care plans, evaluating patient responses, and documenting care in accordance with professional standards. The role supports safe, evidence-based care for patients across physical, developmental, psychological, social, cultural, and educational needs.
Job Details
- Schedule: Nights; 12-hour shifts; minimum 36 hours per week.
- Required Qualifications:
- Current, valid Registered Nurse (RN) license, temporary or interim RN license, or compact RN licensure for the state of practice.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) certification.
- Minimum of one year of experience in an acute care hospital setting, including work in an acute care setting within the past 12 months as a Registered Nurse in the specialty area.
- Ability to maintain clinical competencies through required annual validations.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Professional certification.
- Additional related education or experience.
- Additional Information:
- Assesses, plans, implements, evaluates, and documents patient care.
- Reviews patient histories, diagnostic results, and laboratory data; reports abnormal findings to appropriate caregivers.
- Develops and revises individualized plans of care in collaboration with patients, families, physicians, and multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
- Provides direct patient care, coordinates services, delegates appropriately, and supervises licensed and non-licensed personnel.
- Evaluates patient and family responses to care and education and revises interventions as needed.
- Promotes continuity of care through accurate and timely communication and documentation.
- Participates in education, orientation, mentoring, quality improvement, research activities, and shared leadership initiatives as appropriate.
- Must be able to stand, walk, bend, squat, reach, stretch, assist patients with mobility, and respond quickly to patient care needs.
- Requires effective communication, adequate hearing and visual acuity, fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, and ability to handle objects.
- Requires use of standard precautions due to potential exposure to blood and bodily fluids.
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
