RN Emergency Department Night Shift

Registered Nurse (RN) 2 - Emergency Department

Join our great team in the Emergency Department! This position involves working hours from 7 PM to 7:30 AM, with three 12-hour shifts and a weekend requirement.

Job Description

• Provides direct patient care.
• Bases nursing actions by applying principles of purposeful, organized thinking to make clinical judgment/decisions.
• Gathers data through history taking and physical assessment and interprets data in order to plan and implement interventions to meet patient care needs.
• Develops, evaluates, and revises the patient's plan of care and nursing actions in response to the patient's needs.
• Documents care provided and the patient's progress toward attainment of desired outcomes.
• Directs and supervises others in the performance of delegated nursing activities.
• Teaches the patient and/or significant other(s) about the plan of care. Prepares patients to manage their care after discharge, transfer, or preparation for procedure/test.
• Manages time and resources to deliver patient care.
• Administers medications to patients.

Requirements

• Graduated from an accredited School of Nursing; BSN preferred.
• Registered Nurse - New Hampshire Board of Nursing.
• Basic Life Support - American Heart Association.
• One year prior clinical nursing experience. Evidence of experience in working effectively and positively with patients, care providers, and the multi-disciplinary team. Evidence of the ability to perform as a member of a team.

Benefits

• Competitive and comprehensive employee benefits and growth opportunities.
• Health insurance and dental benefits available to full-time (30+ hours) and part-time employees (20-29 hours).
• Wellness programs.
• Life/LTD insurance.
• 403B retirement savings account with employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• On-site childcare.
• Complimentary on-site employee fitness center.
• Paid time off.
• Career development.
• Employee Activities Committee.
• Military Program offering a supportive environment for those serving or who served in the armed services.

Physical and Work Requirements

The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is MEDIUM. The employee must regularly lift, carry, or push/pull up to 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry, or push/pull up to 10 - 25 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry, or push/pull up to 20 - 50 pounds.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to do fine motor tasks, hear, speak, and walk. The employee is frequently required to bend, reach, sit, squat, and stand. The employee is occasionally required to climb, do repetitive motion, kneel, and smell.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.

The employee is frequently exposed to airborne pathogens, bloodborne pathogens, and bodily fluids. The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne contaminants, chemotherapeutic agents, electrical hazards (shock), moving mechanical parts, non-weather-related heat or cold, slippery surfaces, and toxic or caustic chemicals.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.