Registered Nurse (RN), ED, Staffing Center

University of Maryland Medical System; Easton (MD); On-site; USD 75,768; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Easton, Maryland, is looking for a compassionate and skilled Registered Nurse (RN) for the Emergency Department. This role requires providing independent patient care, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, and mentoring new nurses. A valid Maryland RN license and critical care experience are essential. The position offers a flat rate of $55/hour, ensuring competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Unencumbered license as a Registered Nurse in Maryland or Nurse Compact License.
• BSN preferred.
• Two years of recent critical care nursing experience.
• Maintenance of 10 contact hours of education every two years.

Responsibilities

• Provide and coordinate independent care to patients.
• Serve as an effective primary coordinating nurse with interdisciplinary teams.
• Ensure patient safety and compliance with hospital initiatives.
• Act as a preceptor and mentor to new nurses.

Skills

Critical Care Nursing

Interpersonal Communication

Leadership

Teamwork

Patient Safety

Education

Registered Nurse License in Maryland

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

Tools

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS)

Job description

Registered Nurse (RN), ED, Staffing Center

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Company Description

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

General Summary

This role is considered the minimum role for all nurses who have greater than 12 months experience. Provides and coordinates independent care to patients within a clinical specialty as a fully effective and participative member of the multidisciplinary patient care services team.

Principal Responsibilities And Tasks

Clinical Practice

• Provides independent care to unit specific patient population; serves as clinical resource for others, utilizes and integrates evidence into practice, functions effectively in roles specific to unit (such as arrest team for ICU, triage for ED, etc).
• Accountable to patients and families for the processes and outcomes of care during an episode of care.
• Accountable to peers for the advancement of group practice on the unit, and to the nurse manager for the totality of work performance.
• Serves as an effective primary coordinating nurse; collaborates with interdisciplinary team to plan and coordinate care addressing patient/family needs.
• Serves as clinical resource for others.

Service/Quality

• Assists in team development and evaluation of the Relationship-Based Care model; suggests methods for improvement. Participates in collection of data related to Relationship-Based Care outcomes (e.g. hand offs, medication safety).
• Participates in implementation efforts addressing Nursing Sensitive Quality Indicators (NSQI).
• Participates and contributes to Performance Improvement, or Evidence Based Practice, or research at the unit level.
• Complies with standards and participates with unit level activities for regulatory compliance.

Unit Operations

• Supports charge nurse decisions; performs charge role for assigned shifts as needed.
• Follows and supports the AACN guidelines for Healthy Work Environment (communication, collaboration, effective decision making, recognition, leadership, staffing); participates as team member focusing on elements within the Healthy Work Environment.

Professional Development

• Serves as preceptor, coach, mentor to new nurses and students. Contributes to ancillary personnel skills and development, attends educational offerings and in-services independently.

Patient Safety

• Ensures patient safety in the performance of job functions and through participation in hospital, department or unit patient safety initiatives.
• Acts to correct observed risks to patient safety.
• Reports adverse events and near misses to appropriate management authority.
• Identifies possible risks in processes, procedures, devices and communicates the same to those in charge.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Unencumbered license as a Registered Nurse in the state of Maryland, or a Nurse Compact License (NSL)
• BSN preferred.
• Two years recent (within the past 12 months) critical care nursing experience. Solid knowledge and clinical skills. (See attached Professional Self-assessment skills checklist)
• Maintenance of 10 contact hours of education every two years.

License and Certification

• Intensive Care (ICU)
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS)
• Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU)
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
• Pediatric Intensive Care (PICU)
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
• Trauma Intensive Care
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), National Institute Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS)
• Post Anesthesia Care (PACU)
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Emergency Department (ED)
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS)
• Trauma Emergency Department (ED)
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS)
• Pediatric Emergency Department
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
• Interventional Radiology (IR)
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Cath Lab
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS
  • National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) (Preferred)
• Transplant Unit
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS
  • All Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) must be obtained through the American Heart Association. Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) must be obtained through the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Responsible for maintaining competencies required for the patient care setting; focus on advancing own professional development
• Ability to practice and adhere to the guidelines specified in the UMMC Role of the Professional Nurse Job Charter/Description.
• Demonstrates highly effective interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates leadership qualities through effectiveness as charge nurse, preceptor, or clinical resource.
• Demonstrates effectiveness as a multidisciplinary team member.
• Ability to learn and use computer systems in order to manage patient information.
• Ability to participate in team-building efforts on units; supports and models teamwork
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the patient population(s) served. Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s requirements relative to his or her population-specific and age specific needs

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation

Flat Rate $55/hr