Registered Nurse - Emergency Department - Full Time/Nights
Job Description
This position is accountable for providing competent nursing care for patients with common health problems, and is expected to deliver competent patient care to a full patient assignment. This position practices under the direction of the designated nurse executive, within the scope of the Nursing Practice Act, and in accordance with Children's polices.
Position DetailsStatus: Full Time, Non-Exempt | FTE/Hours per pay period: 0.8625 FTE (69 hrs) | ||||
Shift: Night | Shift Length: 11.5 | ||||
Pay Range: 44.17 - 66.20 | Location: Madera, CA 93636 USA |
About Us:
Valley Children’s Pediatric Emergency Department (ED) is a licensed 38-bed unit and designated Level II Pediatric Trauma Center. Our Trauma designation allows us to receive critically injured patients directly from the scene and leverage our unique resources to support caring for injured pediatric patients. We have a specially trained, multidisciplinary team to support the care of 90,000 pediatric patients that cross our threshold annually. The ED is a fast-paced environment that requires teamwork, clear communication, and healthy collaboration to support safe, timely, efficient, equitable patient and family centered care. There is a variety of advancement and professional growth opportunities in the ED. These range from, but are not limited to, Mobile Intensive Care Nurses, a role in which supports our pre-hospital personnel with direction and coordination around receiving ambulance patients, to triage training, which prepares our nurses for the critical role of assessing and applying the appropriate urgency to arriving patients to assure our most critical patients are identified and expedited. We operate with strict adherence to policy, which is backed by evidence-based training and best practice. We want our team to feel supported, heard and clearly understand expectations. Additionally, there are many opportunities to be involved beyond the bedside through committee work and special projects and task-force, this too supports growth and a voice in the work we do.
Valley Children’s Healthcare - one of the largest pediatric healthcare networks in the nation - provides Central California’s only high-quality, comprehensive care exclusively for children, from before birth to young adulthood. With more than 670 physicians and 3,500 staff, Valley Children’s delivers high-quality, comprehensive care to more than 1.3 million children in our service area. Our network offers highly specialized medical and surgical services to care for children with conditions ranging from common to the highly complex at our 358-bed stand-alone children’s hospital that includes 28 regional NICU beds. Our family-centered, pediatric services extend from a leading pediatric cancer and blood disorders center home on the West Coast, and a pediatric heart center known for its expertise and pioneering treatments, to a Regional Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the highest level referral center between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. We participate in community initiatives, we support community efforts, we get involved where we can do the most good.
EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum 1 year nursing experience required and must meet RN II clinical advancement program criteria
- Experience in pediatrics, Emergency and/or hospital inpatient setting a plus
- Bilingual skills desirable
EDUCATION/LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS:
- Graduate from an accredited nursing program, Bachelor’s in Nursing strongly preferred
- Active California Registered Nurse licensure (RN)
- HeartCode Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days of hire or transfer into position
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within 12 months of hire or transfer into position
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within 12 months of hire or transfer into position
- Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC) within 36 months of hire or transfer into position
- Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC) within 36 months of hire or transfer into position
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Top of pay scale for RN I-RN II is $66.20 and top of scale for RN III-RNIV is $70.00
Have Questions?
Call Recruitment Services at 559-353-7071 or email us at recruiting@valleychildrens.orgDisclaimer: Final compensation will be dependent upon skills and experience.
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