Five (5) openings - Full-time Days, Nights (rotating weekends)
Named a Top Workplace in Tampa Bay for four consecutive years, Northside Hospital and Tampa Bay Institute is a 288-bed acute care facility serving the community since 1976. The facility is accredited by the Joint Commission has National Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification and Sepsis Certification. Additionally, they hold several accreditations including Chest Pain with Primary PCI with Resuscitation, CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound Programs. Their Trauma Program will formally begin May 1, 2017, allowing them to accept patients at our hospital.
Department Overview
- Beds: 22 main ED beds and 5 fast track beds
- Number of Emergency Department Staff: 57
- Skill Mix: RNs, Paramedics, and Emergency Department Technicians
- Schedules: 12-hour shifts (varied hours, 7-7, 9-9, 11-11); Full Time is considered 36 hours per week, including every other weekend
- Industrial Health/Workers' Compensation Program on site to provide post-accident care including drug screens & breathalyzer testing as necessary
- Complete computerized charting ("Electronic Health Record") for patient assessment and care documentation ("charting by exception"); physician's order entry is soon to be added
- Electronic medication administration record (eMAR) is used for the delivery of all medications provided to patients and has significantly reduced errors associated with the administration of medication hospital-wide
- STEMI-receiving facility (currently exceeding national average)
- Stroke-receiving facility with the ability to administer thrombolytics in the ED to directly improve patient outcomes
Qualifications
Education
- Nursing Diploma or ASN required, BSN preferred
Licensure/Certification
- Current Florida State Registered Nursing license required
- Current BLS (Basic Life Support), ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support), and PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) through American Heart Association; TNCC preferred
- NIHSS Certification required (available online at http://www.strokeassociation.org/)
Experience
- ER experience; Trauma a plus
- Customer service abilities including effective listening skills
- Critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast paced environment
- Ability to perform work that requires frequent standing, bending, reaching, squatting, kneeling, moving, lifting of patients and/or equipment up to 50 pounds
Sign-On Bonus up to $7.5K. plus relocation. Compensation commensurate with experience with salary range between $23.91-$37.01/hr. plus night differential
