ER RN
Chandler, Arizona
Chandler Regional Medical Center

ER (Emergency Room) RN (Registered Nurse), Nights

Location: Chandler, Arizona Contract Length: 13 weeks Shift: Nights, 12-hour shifts, 36 hours per week

Required Qualifications

• 2 full years of experience (Level 1 experience normally required; strong Level 2 experience will be accepted)
• Active BLS, ACLS, ATCN or TNCC, and PALS or ENPC
• Moderate conscious sedation competency testing
• Arizona RN license or compact license
• COVID vaccine, or a declination form with supporting documentation
• Dysrhythmia exam within the first week of onboarding (2 attempts maximum; failure cancels the contract and results in a 3-month do-not-use (DNU) status)
• Pass/fail simulation lab on day 1 of orientation (failure results in being sent home and a 6-month DNU status); study guides are provided with first-day instructions
• Must be flexible to work all listed shifts (mandatory, no exceptions)
• Minimum of 4 weekend shifts per schedule period, and must work 2 of 3 holidays during the holiday season
• Radius rule: 50 miles. Candidates may not have been full time, part time, or PRN with any facility affiliated with the same health system (including CHI and Dignity) within the past year.

Assignment Details

• Interviews are conducted by the clinical team. Offers are extended on behalf of the facility, unless there is a return-to-organization (RTO) flag, in which case the offer goes to managers for approval.
• Floating: may float between this facility and the sister facility, approximately 7 miles and 15 minutes apart, possibly during mid-shifts.
• Floor-specific orientation: 2 to 3 days on the floor.
• No block scheduling.
• Scrub color: navy

Schedule

• Nights start times: 3p, 5p, 7p
• Days/Mids start times: 7a, 9a, 10a, 11a, 12p, 1p
• Start times vary by shift.

Unit and Environment

• Unit: ER
• 60 beds, including 14 fast track beds, plus bedside triage
• Ratios: 1:3 to 1:4
• Charge nurse: yes; unit secretary: yes
• Nurse aides: paramedics handle IVs, IV fluids, discharges, and tech duties; CNAs handle tech duties
• Telemetry: GE Lifepacks monitors
• Ventilators/BiPAP: Puritan Bennett 840, Dräger, Vision BiPAP, V60s
• Hospitalist or intensivist in house: 2 to 6 physicians and 2 to 4 midlevels
• IV team: paramedics can start IVs
• Respiratory therapy: 24/7
• Pharmacy: 24/7, with an ER pharmacist available on weekdays, 5 days per week

Patient Population

• Common diagnoses: trauma, MVAs, GSW, blunt and piercing trauma, CVA (stroke center), MI (chest pain center), high-risk OB (separate entrance), psych holds (4 to 6 per day until transferred), cardioversions, and conscious sedation for closed fractures
• Pediatric patients: about 11% of the population. Patients under 15 are stabilized and transferred.
• Volume: about 80,000 visits per year
• Certifications: chest pain center and certified stroke center
• Lab draws are performed by the lab unless central line access is needed.