PRN Registered Nurse Flex
Houston, Texas
Provides professional nursing care for patients in the emergency room.
Posted Sep 8 · 2 years of experience
- Unit and setting
- emergency room · Freestanding Emergency Room This includes pediatric, adolescent, and geriatric patients and the general patient population.pediatric, adolescent, geriatric, and general patient population
- License
- RN licenseCurrent RN license within the state of practice
- Term
- Per Diem PRN Registered Nurse FlexPRN
Do you qualify?
- License
- Current RN license within the state of practice Current RN license within the state of practice.
- Certification
- CPR/BLS Certification CPR/BLS Certification required.
- Certification
- ACLS Certification ACLS Certification required.
- Certification
- PALS Certification PALS Certification required.
- Education
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Experience
- Two (2) years of registered nurse and/or emergency room nursing experience Two (2) years of registered nurse and/or emergency room nursing experience.
- Experience
- Emergency room nursing experience
- Also asks
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Also asks
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Also asks
- Excellent time management skills Excellent time management skills.
- Also asks
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Also asks
- Basic Computer knowledge Basic Computer knowledge.
The role and schedule
- Day to day
- Triage patients and prioritize care based on complaint or symptoms Triages each patient and determines priority of care based on medical complaint or current symptoms.
- Day to day
- Promote and restore patient health collaboratively using the nursing process Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process in collaboration with physicians and multidisciplinary team members.
- Day to day
- Evaluate medical complaint or symptoms and report to physician Provides direct patient care by evaluating the medical complaint or current symptoms and report to physician.
- Day to day
- Assist physicians during exams, procedures, diagnostic testing, and treatments Works directly under physicians, assisting them during exams, procedures, diagnostic testing and treatments.
- Day to day
- Perform IVs, blood draws, cardiac monitoring, pulse oximetry, nebulizers, wound care, splints, and bedside care
- Day to day
- Recognize and effectively treat life-threatening conditions Recognizes and effectively treats life-threatening conditions.
- Day to day
- Perform head-to-toe assessments and reassessments on all patients Ability to perform a head-to-toe assessment on all patients and reassessments.
- Day to day
- Assist physicians with procedures, sedation, cardiac arrest, intubation, chest tubes, and reporting deaths
- Day to day
- Prepare and administer ordered medications and record in medical record Prepares and administers medications ordered by the physician and records administration and such other relative data in the patient’s medical record.
- Day to day
- Review discharge instructions, verify stability with vital signs, and record results Reviews all discharge instructions with patient and takes vital signs prior to discharge to ensure patient is stable and records results in the patient medical record.
- Day to day
- Record medical care information and submit to Front Desk Representative
- Details
- Prolonged sitting at desk and working on computer Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Details
- Prolonged standing, bending, and reaching Prolonged periods of standing, bending, and reaching
- Details
- Able to lift up to 50 pounds at times Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds at times.
The workplace
Worth asking
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for shifts, weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
More questions to askFewer questions
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
Your fit
On your path
Emergency Fellowships take new grads. Watch their application dates.
Original listing
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Provides professional nursing care for patients in the emergency room. Triages each patient and determines priority of care based on medical complaint or current symptoms. Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process in collaboration with physicians and multidisciplinary team members.
Requirements
Duties/
Responsibilities
- Provides direct patient care by evaluating the medical complaint or current symptoms and report to physician.
- Works directly under physicians, assisting them during exams, procedures, diagnostic testing and treatments.
- Per physicians’ orders performs IV initiation/infusion/therapy, blood draws, cardiac monitoring, pulse oximetry, applies oxygen, administers nebulized treatment, cleans and bandages wounds, applies splints, and provides basic bedside care.
- Recognizes and effectively treats life-threatening conditions.
- Ability to perform a head-to-toe assessment on all patients and reassessments. This includes pediatric, adolescent, and geriatric patients and the general patient population.
- Assists physicians with procedures including but not limited to laceration repair, any procedure requiring moderate sedation, incision and drainage, cardiac arrest, intubation, chest tube insertion, foreign body removal, live birth or spontaneous aborted fetus and tissue, records time of death and birth, assists Administrator in reporting death in the emergency room as needed.
- Prepares and administers medications ordered by the physician and records administration and such other relative data in the patient’s medical record.
- Reviews all discharge instructions with patient and takes vital signs prior to discharge to ensure patient is stable and records results in the patient medical record.
- Records all patient medical care information concisely, accurately and completely, in a timely manner, in appropriate format and submits to Front Desk Representative to enter in patient medical record.
Required Skills/Abilities
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Basic Computer knowledge.
Education and Experience
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Two (2) years of registered nurse and/or emergency room nursing experience.
- Current RN license within the state of practice.
- CPR/BLS Certification required.
- ACLS Certification required.
- PALS Certification required.
Additional
Requirements
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Prolonged periods of standing, bending, and reaching
- Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds at times.
- All employees of Ally are responsible for complying with all privacy and security laws and internal policies and procedures. You will play an active role in protecting the company's sensitive data and ensuring that our patient's information is treated with the utmost care and confidence. You are responsible for reporting any concerns or infractions that you become aware of so that the company may appropriately address them.
- You are responsible for protecting the credentials provided to you to access Company (and customer, where applicable) networks, systems, and data.
- You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of all Ally and customer data to which you are granted access. Any suspected compromises of Ally proprietary data or customer data must be reported to Management immediately.
- You will adhere to the Company’s Information Security Policy and Procedures and support standard operating procedures to protect Company systems and data.
- You will alert management immediately with any expected system or data compromises and/or system failure impacting the security, confidentiality, availability, and integrity of Ally Medical and customer data.
- You will be required to attend an annual Information Security Awareness Training.
As Ally Medical ER continues to grow we remain committed to delivering exemplary experiences to our patients and our employees in alignment with our company Mission and Core Values. As such, hiring decisions are based on experience, skills and passion, as well as how candidates can enhance Ally Medical and the company culture.
Ally Medical is an Equal Opportunity Employer. That means that we support diversity and inclusion and do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law or local ordinance.
What's around it?
Houston, TXFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about the same as the US average
- Median rent
- $1,361/mo
- Household income
- $64,813/yr, all local households, not nurse pay