ER RN
Redding, California
Mercy Medical Center Redding

ER RN

Location: Redding, California Contract Length: 13 weeks Shift: Days, 12-hour shifts (6a-6p), 36 hours per week Unit: ER, with 28 beds, including 4 fast track beds, 2 trauma bays, and hallway beds

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in the ER specialty
• Experience working in a high-volume, high-acuity ER
• Active California RN license
• Active BLS, ACLS, and PALS
• NIHSS certification
• COVID vaccine (required)
• Pass a proctored, pass/fail dysrhythmia test onsite on day one (applies to Telemetry, L/D, Emergency, and Critical Care RNs)

Preferred Qualifications

• TNCC certification
• Travel experience
• Level II trauma experience or higher

Assignment Details

• Ratio: 1:4
• Charge nurse role: Yes, does not take a patient assignment
• Some travelers may take trauma patients depending on their experience
• Patients per day: about 155, including trauma, stroke, pediatric, and psychiatric patients
• Hospitalist and intensivist in house 24/7
• Respiratory therapy and pharmacy coverage 24/7
• Ventilators: Yes
• IV team: No
• Nurse aides: EMTs, one per shift plus a midshift EMT, who perform tech duties
• Floating: No
• Floor-specific orientation: 2-3 shifts
• Scrub color: Navy

Schedule

• Weekends: Every other weekend
• Holidays: Work into the permanent staff rotation; holiday time off will be considered but is not guaranteed
• Call: One day per month, or possibly two if it is your call team's turn; sign-up is due 3 days after the call schedule is released or you will be assigned
• Schedules are made at least 2 weeks in advance and self-scheduled by seniority
• Mid shifts start between 9a-3p; night shifts start between 4p-7p