ER RN
Bakersfield, CA
Care Career
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Responsibilities

• Provide direct nursing care in an 18-bed Emergency Department treating approximately 85–115 patients per day.
• Maintain a typical nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:4, or 1:2 for ICU-level patients.
• Perform comprehensive patient assessments, triage, and ongoing monitoring.
• Care for a diverse ED population, including acute medical conditions, indigent/homeless patients, and correctional patients.
• Stabilize patients with cardiac conditions and coordinate transfers when higher-level cardiac care is required.
• Recognize changes in patient condition and initiate appropriate emergency interventions.
• Administer medications, IV therapies, and other treatments safely according to physician orders.
• Monitor patients using Phillips telemetry and appropriately respond to changes in cardiac rhythm and patient status.
• Provide care for patients requiring ventilator support and collaborate with 24/7 respiratory therapy.
• Work collaboratively with the shift manager, resource nurse, physicians, hospitalists/intensivists, pharmacists, RTs, ED techs, and other healthcare professionals.
• Use Cerner for accurate and timely documentation of assessments, interventions, medications, and patient responses.
• Maintain strong teamwork and communication in a high-volume emergency department.
• Follow hospital policies, infection-control procedures, patient-safety standards, and emergency protocols.
• Be willing to float between the two affiliated facilities when needed, including mid-shift floating.
• Provide safe and effective care while adapting to the workflow and patient population of the receiving ED.
• Work every other weekend and required holidays.
• Maintain flexibility for the facility's 4-week scheduling requirements; block scheduling and PRN scheduling are not accommodated.