Registered Nurse - Emergency Department - Full Time/Days

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. 

Job Summary:

The Registered Nurse (RN) is accountable for providing competent nursing care. Responsible for coordination of the patient's plan of care through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing interventions that lead to established outcomes. This position practices under the direction of the designated nurse executive, within the scope of the Nursing Practice Act, and in accordance with Valley Children's Hospital policies.

Qualifications:

Education

• Program Accredited nursing program (required)
• Bachelors Degree Nursing (preferred)

Licenses and Certifications

• RN - Registered Nurse License - CA-BRN - California Board of Registered Nursing (required)
• BLS - Basic Life Support - AHA - American Heart Association within 30 days of hire or transfer into position (required)
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support - AHA - American Heart Association within 12 months of hire or transfer into position (required)
• PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support - AHA - American Heart Association within 12 months of hire or transfer into position (required)
• ENPC - Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course - AHA - American Heart Association within 12 months of hire or transfer into position (required)
• TNCC - Trauma Nurse Core Course - ENA - Emergency Nurses Association within 24 months of hire or transfer into position (required)

Work Experience

• Experience to correlate with Clinical Advancement Program (required)

Skills and Abilities

• Bilingual Skills Preferred.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Compensation Range:

$46.25 - $61.43

Workshift:

Day (United States of America)

Position Exempt:

No

FTE %:

86.25

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

34.5

Daily Hours:

11.5

Have Questions?

Call Recruitment Services at 559-353-7071 or email us at recruiting@valleychildrens.org
Disclaimer: Final compensation will be dependent upon skills and experience.