Registered NURSE, Float Pool, Nights; Sierra Medical Center

Responsibilities

Sierra Medical Center is part of Northern Nevada Health System, a regional multi‑facility system that has excelled at offering quality care to residents of the greater Truckee Meadows. Sierra Medical Center is a 170‑bed acute care hospital offering services including 24/7 ER care, cardiology, oncology, labor and delivery, level II NICU, surgical and orthopedic services, and much more.
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• Compassion
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  We treat everyone with kindness and warmth because we genuinely care about every patient, employee and physician like they are family.
• Empathy
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  We put ourselves in our patient’s shoes and deliver clinical care with a personalized touch.
• Teamwork
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  We foster a caring and friendly work environment to bring the best possible outcomes in our patient’s lives.
• Quality
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  We strive to provide excellence in clinical care.
• Ethics
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  We conduct our business with the highest ethical and moral standards.
• Respect
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  We promise to honor the dignity, individuality and rights of everyone.
• Service Excellence
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  We provide personalized and professional service that exceeds the expectations of those we serve.
• Innovation
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  We continually invest in technology and process improvements to develop new and better ways of delivering clinical care.

This Float Pool Registered Nurse opportunity is full time, offers full benefits and a convenient flexible schedule. We are looking for a dynamic individual who provides direct and indirect patient care, communicates with physicians about changes in patient’s clinical condition, responds quickly and accurately to changes in condition or response to treatment, performs general nursing duties in all departments with adequate supervision, participates in performance improvement and CQI activities, and is willing to float to all units.

• Provides direct patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with other specialists as required and adjusts nursing care processes as indicated to ensure optimal patient care.
• Ability to perform a head‑to‑toe assessment on all patients and reassessments as per policy, including pediatric, adolescent, geriatric and general patient populations.
• Uses triage process to ensure timely and appropriate care to patients, accurately assigning triage categories.
• Ability to adequately assess and reassess pain, utilize appropriate pain management techniques, and educate the patient and family regarding pain management.

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Competitive compensation & generous paid time off
• Excellent medical, dental, vision and prescription drug plans
• 401(k) with company match and discounted stock plan
• Tuition reimbursement/repayment program
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ subsidiaries
• More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website:

If you would like to learn more about the position before applying, please contact Jenn Samudio, Recruiter at

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies. UHS operates acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S., Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

• Current NV nursing license
• Current ACLS & BLS certificate
• PALS certificate (to be obtained within six months of employment)
• At least two years of recent critical care or emergency department experience

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.