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Registered Nurse - Emergency​/Nights

Job in Lancaster, Los Angeles County, California, 93586, USA
Listing for: Antelope Valley Medical Center
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-12
Job specializations:
  • Nursing
    Healthcare Nursing, Emergency Medicine, RN Nurse, Clinical Nurse Specialist
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 60000 - 80000 USD Yearly USD 60000.00 80000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Registered Nurse - Emergency - Full Time/Nights - Req#2030317363

Job Objective

An Emergency Department Registered Nurse must be knowledgeable in multiple disciplines, pediatrics, obstetrics, medicine, cardiology, trauma, orthopedics, oncology, infectious disease, and psychiatry. He/she must be knowledgeable in caring for all age groups; newborns, infants, toddlers, childhood, adolescence, adult and geriatric.

Essential Duties for all RN’s in the Emergency Department
  • Meets all the essential duties of a Registered Nurse.
Nursing Process

Applies nursing process in direct patient care.

  • Skillfully practices triage of patients per Triage Policy
  • Assesses patients and documents on the ED nursing T-system a minimum of
  • every two hours or more often when necessary.
  • Appropriately intervenes when assessment reveals an abnormal finding, examples include but are not limited to airway, breathing, circulation.
  • Knowledgeable regarding pre-hospital forms.
  • Nursing Care Delivery Process
  • Knowledgeable regarding current emergency nursing practices and procedures.
  • Knowledgeable of the legal aspects of emergency nursing care, including
  • but not limited to:

  • Treatment and/or release of minor to someone other than parent.
  • EMTALA laws in regards to medical screening exams and transfer procedures.
  • Procedure for medical/legal examination and collection of evidence.
  • Procedure for obtaining legal blood alcohol specimen.
  • Requirements for reporting suspected elder/dependent adult and child abuse/neglect.
  • Coroner’s report
  • After-care instructions
  • Technical Equipment
  • Chest tubes, drainage system, and auto-transfuser.
  • Cardio-Respiratory monitors
  • Monitoring equipment;
    Arterial Lines, CVP, Swanz Ganz, ICP.
  • Invasive and non-invasive blood pressure monitoring.
  • Crash cart/defibrillator (external and internal), ambu bag.
  • Oxygen saturation/pulse oximetry
  • Fluid warmer
  • 12 lead ECG
  • Pacemaker, internal and external
  • Competent operation of Reddi Net communication System
  • Environment
  • Refer to job description Registered Nurse
  • Leadership/Professionalism
  • Refer to job description Registered Nurse
  • Education
  • Refer to job description Registered Nurse
  • Attends a minimum of 50% of staff meetings annually.
  • Communication
  • Refer to job description, Registered Nurse
  • Age Specific & Cultural Requirements
  • Refer to job description, Registered Nurse
  • Non-Essential Duties
    • Participation on unit or hospital-based committees
    • Skills and Abilities
    • Refer to job description Registered Nurse
    • Ability to perform and interpret ECG correctly
    • Ability institute Thrombolytic therapy protocol
    • Ability to assist in ICP insertion and monitoring/interpretation of wave form
    • Ability to assist in insertion and monitoring of arterial line and central lines.
    Required Licensure and/or Certifications
    • Current California Registered Nursing license
    • BLS
    • ACLS
    • PALS (within 6 months of hire or first available Antelope Valley Hospital course)
    • Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Certification, initial certification required at first available hospital training class. Annual recertification required
    • Annual Restraint Certification/Recertification
    • Annual JCAHO Review/Competencies
    Working Conditions
    • Refer to job description Registered Nurse
    Job Objective

    A Registered Nurse is responsible for the nursing care of patients as established by the Nursing Practice Act of the Board of Registered Nursing of the State of California and as guided by policies and procedures of the hospital.

    Duties and Responsibilities
    1. Nursing Process
    • Applies nursing process in direct patient care:
    • Provides accurate assessment and documentation of physiological, psycho social, cultural, developmental, socioeconomic, and spiritual needs of patient as evidenced by assessment within time frame appropriate for level of care
    • Provides logical sequence of action, updates nursing care plan as evidenced by notations on care plan, provides evaluation each shift of patient’s progress In relation to the patient care plan, if applicable to area of care
    • Provides Information to patient/family relating to educational resources available, Directs patient/family educational process
    • Provides discharge planning beginning on admission with appropriate referrals and update as required by the patient
    • Adheres to the admission and transfer criteria
    • Adheres to all current policies and…
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