RN (Float) - PACE

Providence

Seattle, Washington

Eligibility: Sign-on bonus

Posted Oct 30

Shift and hours: Days
License: RN licenseEducation sufficient for licensure
Term: Permanent

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License: Education sufficient for licensure
License: Upon hire: Washington Registered Nurse License Check your license
Certification: Within 30 days of hire: National Provider BLS - American Heart AssociationAfter hire · within 30 days
Education: BSN
Experience: 1 year Long term care or geriatric nursing
Experience: 1 year Working with the frail and elderly
Also asks: Why Join Providence?
Also asks: Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.
Also asks: Accepting a new position at another facility that is part of the Providence family of organizations may change your current benefits. Changes in benefits, including paid time-off, happen for various reasons. These reasons can include changes of Legal Employer, FTE, Union, location, time-off plan policies, availability of health and welfare benefit plan offerings, and other various reasons.

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Sign-on bonus: $10,000

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$10,000 hiring bonus for eligible external candidates that meet required qualifications and conditions for payment.

Schedule

Mon-Fri (8am to 4:30pm), Day shift Area Coverage: Seattle, Kent, and Renton The PACE Float Registered Nurse provides nursing coverage for the PACE RN Case Managers and Clinic nurse roles in our outpatient clinics across King and Snohomish County. Providence PACE is a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly that strives to keep older adults as healthy as possible living in the community through clinics, home visits and more. Join our team to help empower elders in your community to live active, independent lives.

Required Qualifications

Education sufficient for licensure
Within 30 days of hire: National Provider BLS - American Heart Association
Upon hire: Washington Registered Nurse License
1 year Long term care or geriatric nursing
1 year Working with the frail and elderly

Preferred Qualifications

BSN Why Join Providence? Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.

Accepting a new position at another facility that is part of the Providence family of organizations may change your current benefits. Changes in benefits, including paid time-off, happen for various reasons. These reasons can include changes of Legal Employer, FTE, Union, location, time-off plan policies, availability of health and welfare benefit plan offerings, and other various reasons.

What's around it?

In Seattle, WA

Seattle, WAFrom Census ACS 2024.

Living costs about 11% above the US average

Median rent: $2,030/mo
Household income: $123,860/yr, all local households, not nurse pay

Life in Seattle, WA

NeighborhoodsWest Seattle is the named small-town-in-the-city pick: three commercial junctions along California Avenue Southwest, Alki Beach, a Sunday farmers market, bars, and a movie theater, plus 10–30 minute downtown drives. Shoreline, its own city just north of the line and now on light rail, buys three-bed/two-bath houses with yards and garages and a 20–25 minute rail ride downtown—more space than a Seattle condo at the same budget. Columbia City (craftsman homes, food, light rail), Ballard (restaurants, long-term Seattle character), Belltown and South Lake Union (condos, nightlife) are the in-city young-professional patterns; Wilburton and West Bellevue plus Grass Lawn in Redmond are the Eastside family/tech bases. Kent, Renton, and Lynnwood are the lower-cost suburbs Reddit names, with the blunt caveat that traffic will suck.

West Seattle is the named small-town-in-the-city pick: three commercial junctions along California Avenue Southwest, Alki Beach, a Sunday farmers market, bars, and a movie theater, plus 10–30 minute downtown drives. Shoreline, its own city just north of the line and now on light rail, buys three-bed/two-bath houses with yards and garages and a 20–25 minute rail ride downtown—more space than a Seattle condo at the same budget.

Columbia City (craftsman homes, food, light rail), Ballard (restaurants, long-term Seattle character), Belltown and South Lake Union (condos, nightlife) are the in-city young-professional patterns; Wilburton and West Bellevue plus Grass Lawn in Redmond are the Eastside family/tech bases. Kent, Renton, and Lynnwood are the lower-cost suburbs Reddit names, with the blunt caveat that traffic will suck.

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As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: reddit.com Source 2: sammamishmortgage.com Source 3: youtube.com Source 4: niche.com Source 5: hellolanding.com

Getting aroundSources map downtown and Eastside access, not hospital parking: Sounder from Kent Station is just under 30 minutes to King Street Station, then light rail deeper into the city, with I-5 and SR 167 HOT lanes for drivers. Issaquah is about 30 minutes via I-90 HOV, with downtown Issaquah train parking that includes EV chargers and bike lockers; SeaTac’s Angle Lake station plus RapidRide (every 10 minutes at peak, 15 off-peak) runs 35 minutes to an hour; Mercer Island express buses can reach Seattle in 20 minutes. West Seattle is 10 minutes off-peak and 30-plus in rush hour over the repaired West Seattle Bridge; Shoreline light rail is 20–25 minutes downtown. By 2025 the north line added Shoreline, Mountlake Terrace, and Lynnwood stops and Eastside rail served Bellevue–Redmond Technology Center, with I-90 and downtown Redmond extensions expected that year and Federal Way around 2026—yet rush hour can start near 1:30 p.m., a mapped hop can become an hour, and West Seattle to Redmond can take 1.5 hours (Capitol Hill about 45 minutes by car).

Sources map downtown and Eastside access, not hospital parking: Sounder from Kent Station is just under 30 minutes to King Street Station, then light rail deeper into the city, with I-5 and SR 167 HOT lanes for drivers. Issaquah is about 30 minutes via I-90 HOV, with downtown Issaquah train parking that includes EV chargers and bike lockers; SeaTac’s Angle Lake station plus RapidRide (every 10 minutes at peak, 15 off-peak) runs 35 minutes to an hour; Mercer Island express buses can reach Seattle in 20 minutes.

West Seattle is 10 minutes off-peak and 30-plus in rush hour over the repaired West Seattle Bridge; Shoreline light rail is 20–25 minutes downtown. By 2025 the north line added Shoreline, Mountlake Terrace, and Lynnwood stops and Eastside rail served Bellevue–Redmond Technology Center, with I-90 and downtown Redmond extensions expected that year and Federal Way around 2026—yet rush hour can start near 1:30 p.m., a mapped hop can become an hour, and West Seattle to Redmond can take 1.5 hours (Capitol Hill about 45 minutes by car).

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: reddit.com Source 2: sammamishmortgage.com Source 3: youtube.com Source 4: facebook.com Source 5: youtube.com Source 6: facebook.com

OutdoorsIn-city hiking includes Discovery Park’s North Beach Trail beside a lighthouse, Carkeek Park’s Pipers Creek Trail to Puget Sound views, Seward Park’s Sqebeqsed Trail on Lake Washington, Union Bay Natural Area’s Yesler Swamp, and the 230-acre Washington Park Arboretum. The Burke-Gilman Trail is a nearly 20-mile car-free run from Golden Gardens through Ballard, Fremont, and the University District to Kenmore; Alki Beach and Golden Gardens are the swim-and-sunset parks. Kayak or SUP from Agua Verde Paddle Club and the Center for Wooden Boats on Lake Union, Green Lake Boathouse, Seattle Paddle near Seward Park, or Alki and Ballard kayak shops. Weekends go to the Issaquah Alps, Mount Si, Twin Falls, and Rattlesnake Ledge, or a two- to three-hour drive to Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades—plus Bainbridge, Kitsap, and Whidbey by ferry.

In-city hiking includes Discovery Park’s North Beach Trail beside a lighthouse, Carkeek Park’s Pipers Creek Trail to Puget Sound views, Seward Park’s Sqebeqsed Trail on Lake Washington, Union Bay Natural Area’s Yesler Swamp, and the 230-acre Washington Park Arboretum. The Burke-Gilman Trail is a nearly 20-mile car-free run from Golden Gardens through Ballard, Fremont, and the University District to Kenmore; Alki Beach and Golden Gardens are the swim-and-sunset parks.

Kayak or SUP from Agua Verde Paddle Club and the Center for Wooden Boats on Lake Union, Green Lake Boathouse, Seattle Paddle near Seward Park, or Alki and Ballard kayak shops. Weekends go to the Issaquah Alps, Mount Si, Twin Falls, and Rattlesnake Ledge, or a two- to three-hour drive to Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades—plus Bainbridge, Kitsap, and Whidbey by ferry.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: visitseattle.org Source 2: thehonestlocal.com Source 3: hellolanding.com Source 4: youtube.com

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Living in Seattle

Seattle is distinct for stacking a no-wage-income-tax paycheck against Puget Sound, the Cascades, and three national parks two to three hours out. A nurse can live in West Seattle—California Avenue junctions, Sunday market, Alki Beach, 10–30 minutes downtown—or in Shoreline, where light rail is 20–25 minutes. Kent’s Sounder hits King Street in under 30 minutes; Bellevue, Issaquah, and Grass Lawn/Redmond fit Eastside job centers and schools (Bellevue’s 400+ National Board teachers). Light rail now serves Lynnwood and Bellevue–Redmond, but rush hour can start at 1:30 p.m. and West Seattle to Redmond can take 1.5 hours. Daily life runs on Pike Place salmon and Beecher’s, Capitol Hill’s Spinasse and Ethiopian/Vietnamese, Fremont’s Rock Creek, and the cream-cheese Seattle Dog. Tradeoffs are real: competitive housing, the Seattle Freeze, winter Big Dark, homelessness, and traffic. Parks sit within a 10-minute walk; Discovery Park and the Burke-Gilman Trail are the after-shift reset. Visit a prospective neighborhood at 8 a.m. on a weekday before you sign; traffic and the Freeze are the two things locals say surprise newcomers most.

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Sources

As of 2026Source 1: youtube.com Source 2: sammamishmortgage.com Source 3: thehonestlocal.com Source 4: hellolanding.com Source 5: youtube.com Source 6: visitseattle.org Source 7: getyourguide.com Source 8: reddit.com Source 9: niche.com Source 10: facebook.com

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