Registered Nurse Emergency Department

Join us at Holy Family Hospital

Not many healthcare professionals have the opportunity to build a career with a great job and robust benefits while also caring for friends, family and neighbors. You can when you work at Holy Family Hospital in Methuen and Haverhill. As part of the Steward Health Care System, our goal is to offer low-cost, high-quality healthcare to the people who live and work near our hospital, so they don’t have to travel far for great care.

Position Summary: Registered Nurse ED Per Diem 

Job Summary:

Emergency nurses specialize in assessing, intervening and stabilizing a variety of trauma and illnesses with decisive action. Due to the range of medical conditions that may require urgent treatment and care, they must be knowledgeable about general as well as specific health issues.

Job Description:

Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures.
Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources necessary.
Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g., seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources, reassigns personnel as necessary, recognizes need for emergency intervention, etc.)
Provides thorough, timely and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions and patient responses including assessment, care plan, patient goals and interventions according to established standards.
Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e., appropriate reporting of errors/incidents).
Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physician's orders, protocols, policies, and procedures.
Assesses patient pain level upon admission and as necessary, utilizing the pain scale (e.g., numerical, FACES and functional goals.)
Reassesses effectiveness of pain control and notifies physicians as needed, as well as documents assessment and patients' response to medication.
Readily accepts accountability for designated patient and effectively hands off patient as required.
Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others.
Critical thinking skills and ability to perform medication dosing calculations.
Demonstrates clinical competence in the specialty area of nursing practice preferred. 

Benefits:

We have many plans with various deductibles, which can cover individuals or families, so you can customize a plan that will work for you! Steward Health Care works with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to provide affordable health insurance for our employees in benefit-eligible positions. Our Health Plans Highlights are:

Deductibles will not apply to services provided by a Steward provider (Tier 1).
Office visits copay will be $0 when a member uses a Steward Provider (Tier 1).
Mental Health and Substance Abuse office visits will be $0 for all In-Network providers (Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3).
Other Benefits provided:

Dental, Vision, Health Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Time Off, Shift Differential, Tuition Reimbursement, and more.

Qualifications: 

Education: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. BSN preferred.
Certification/ Licensure:
Current nursing license in Massachusetts required.
BCLS required.
ACLS required within 6 months of hire.
TNCC and ENPC required within 1 year of hire.