Clinical Nurse - East Valley Emergency Department

Phoenix Children's Hospital; Gilbert (AZ); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Phoenix Children's Hospital in Gilbert, AZ is seeking dedicated nurses for its new East Valley Pediatric Emergency Department opening in 2027. The role provides care to acutely ill children in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.

Responsibilities include comprehensive nursing assessments, coordinating care with families, and ensuring safety, documentation, and adherence to standards. Full-time and part-time shifts are available.

Qualifications

• Experience in emergency, pediatric, or critical care nursing.
• Strong critical thinking skills and excellent communication.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

• Complete nursing assessment of patient conditions across age groups and plan of care.
• Evaluate patient responses, document progress and communicate with the team and families.
• Contribute to medication safety, storage, and documentation compliance.
• Provide unit orientation and staff guidance to ensure policy adherence and patient safety.
• Supervise care activities, mentor students and new staff, and foster a learning environment.
• Collaborate with care team and families to coordinate ongoing patient care and rounds.
• Perform miscellaneous duties as needed.

Skills

Emergency nursing

Pediatric nursing

Critical care nursing

Communication

Team collaboration

Critical thinking

Job description

Position Summary

Posting Note: We are excited to announce new career opportunities at the upcoming East Valley Hospital Emergency Department, scheduled to open in early 2027. The East Valley Pediatric Emergency Department will feature 24 beds, including specialized safer rooms and trauma bays. Additionally, the new hospital facility will house 6 operating rooms, 60 NICU beds, and a 24-bed acute care unit with ICU capabilities.

We are seeking dedicated professionals with experience in emergency, pediatric, or critical care nursing. Candidates should possess strong critical thinking skills, excellent communication, and a passion for working in a fast-paced, collaborative healthcare environment.

Full-time & part-time shifts available

This position works in collaboration with the healthcare team, patient and family to promote patient health through delivery of professional nursing care appropriate to patients age and condition as documented in the nursing and medical plans of care in accordance with evidence-based nursing and patient care practice standards and hospital goals, values and regulatory standards.

Position Duties

• Completes nursing assessment of patient conditions consistent with age and condition, including physical, psychological, social, developmental, and educational factors, to determine initial level of compliance with treatment plan per policy and unit guidelines. Performs ongoing patient and family assessments and identifies variations from diagnoses.
• Continually evaluates patient responses to care, teaching, and discharge plans. Documents patient progress in appropriate charts and shares observations and assessment outcomes with healthcare team and families to ensure timely communication and understanding of patient health status, progress, and ongoing needs.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing required activities within established parameters to ensure compliance with all applicable medication, storage and documentation standards, regulations, and requirements.
• Provides orientation to the unit, hospital systems, and processes to patients and family members to ensure familiarity with unit's policies and requirements.
• Supervises patient care activities of assigned team members and delegates activities appropriate to knowledge, skill, and competency. Provides timely feedback and review of care delivery to ensure maintenance of patient safety, infection control procedures, therapeutic environment, and team members' performance level, maintaining confidentiality as appropriate.
• Works collaboratively with patient care team and family members to establish and implement plan of care to ensure coordination of activities and ongoing communication of patient health status. Participates in patient care rounds and patient care conferences as appropriate.
• Fosters a positive learning environment by modeling best practices and patient-centered care while providing guidance, training, and support to students and new employees through mentorship, clinical instruction, and knowledge sharing
• Performs miscellaneous job related duties as requested.

Phoenix Children's Mission, Vision, & Values

Mission

To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families

Vision

Phoenix Children's will be the leading pediatric health system in the Southwest, nationally recognized for exceptional care, innovative research and advanced medical education.

We realize this vision by:

• Offering the most comprehensive care across ages, communities and specialties
• Investing in innovative research, including emerging treatments, tools and technologies
• Advancing education and training to shape the next generation of clinical leaders
• Advocating for the health and well-…

Values

• We place children and families at the center of all we do
• We deliver exceptional care, every day and in every way
• We collaborate with colleagues, partners and communities to amplify our impact
• We set the standards of pediatric healthcare today, and innovate for the future
• We are accountable for making the highest quality care accessible and affordable