Nurse Emergency
Glendale, Arizona
- Eligibility
- RN
Posted Sep 11
What the listing says
Role
- Accepts
- RN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
- In range for AZ staff roles
AZ staff postings that state pay run $24/hr to $59/hr, the middle half $38/hr to $52/hr, across 374 postings.
About this role
As a Registered Nurse (RN) at SJHMC Westgate ED, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your specialized expertise to provide rapid, individualized, comprehensive care, making swift and critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing urgent patient care plans for patients of all ages, from minor injuries to life-threatening emergencies. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, including physicians, advanced practice providers, paramedics, and support staff, contributing to a high-pressure, yet highly rewarding, environment focused on immediate stabilization and optimal patient outcomes.
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To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, particularly in rapidly triaging, identifying, and addressing life-threatening conditions, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others during their most vulnerable moments. Your exceptional sense of urgency, adaptability, and unwavering dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient survival and recovery but also fuel your own career advancement in this critical specialty. - Rapid Assessment & Triage: Provides comprehensive, safe, and effective, evidence-based nursing care, performing rapid and accurate assessments to prioritize patient needs and facilitate timely intervention for various medical and traumatic emergencies. - Emergency Interventions: Organizes and prioritizes patient care activities, balanced with the urgent needs and comfort of critically ill or injured patients. Initiates and manages life-saving interventions - Patient & Family Support: Serves as an advocate for patients' needs by demonstrating holistic care practices, offering support and clear communication to patients and their families during highly stressful times. - Clinical Acuity & Adaptability: Demonstrates the ability to recognize, interpret, and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions (i.e.
Lab, vitals, signs and test values) in a timely and clinically appropriate manner, often under pressure.
Sourced from CommonSpirit Health’s careers page.
Requirements
- RN License (AZ or Compact State)
- BLS
- ACLS (within 6 months of hire)
- PALS (within 6 months of hire)
Benefits
- health/dental/vision
- FSA
- matching retirement plans
- paid time off
- tuition assistance
- adoption assistance
Place
- City
- Glendale, Arizona
- Median rent
- $1,528/mo
- Local household income
- $73,530/yr
- State price level
- 1% above the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Arizona index 100.7, where 100 is the national average.
Glendale sits just northwest of Phoenix, offering nurses a family-friendly desert suburb with easy access to big-city amenities. The city blends quiet residential streets with the entertainment district around Westgate, home to shopping, dining, and the NFL stadium — giving you both laid-back living and weekend energy in one sunny Arizona locale.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
How this role fits you
About the employer
On your path
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- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load and floating handled day to day?