Emergency Room RN

When a community counts on its emergency department, the team there decides how trauma, sudden illness, and crisis are met. As an Emergency Room RN, you stabilize patients, start the right care fast, and set the tone for every encounter—often before specialty backup or transfer is available. Your judgment protects neighbors when minutes matter.

Performance Objectives

• Triage arriving patients and start life-saving interventions within minutes of arrival.
• Lead resuscitation and stabilization for trauma, cardiac, respiratory, and septic presentations until disposition is clear.
• Deliver protocol-aligned treatment—medications, access, monitoring, and procedures—with documentation that supports a safe handoff.
• Coordinate physicians, EMS, lab, imaging, and receiving units so assessment, decision, and transfer stay on time.
• Teach patients and families the plan, medications, and warning signs to reduce avoidable return visits.
• Spot deterioration early, escalate without delay, and keep unplanned decline after ED care rare.
• Coach newer nurses and hold every shift to infection control, safety, and respectful communication.

Environment & Resources

You will practice in a community hospital emergency department, partnering with physicians or advanced practice providers, technicians, and EMS. You report to emergency nursing leadership. The department is equipped with an electronic record, cardiac monitoring, defibrillation, infusion and trauma supplies, and point-of-care testing, with established pathways to regional referral centers.

Essential Qualifications

• Active RN license in New Mexico or compact license.
• Current BLS required; ACLS required. PALS and TNCC preferred.
• BSN preferred.
• 1 year of experience in the related specialty preferred.
• Proven skill in vascular access, cardiac rhythm interpretation, safe medication administration, and decisions under surge.
• Availability for nights, weekends, holidays, and volume spikes.

Compensation

Compensation: $33.75–$52.74/hr based on experience (capped at 15 years). Sign-on bonus: $20,000 for 1–10 years' experience, $30,000 for 10+ years — half at 90 days, half at 2 years, 2-year commitment. Relocation assistance for candidates over 100 miles away: $3,500 at 100+ miles, $5,000 at 500+ miles, paid at 30 days, 1-year commitment. Degree pay: BSN +$1.00/hr, MSN +$2.00/hr. Night shift differential +$3.25/hr for hours worked between 7p–7a. Weekend differential 10% of base pay. Float Pool incentive +20% of base pay. ED incentive: additional $5.00/hr for full-time RNs (promotional offer at this time, not guaranteed to stay).

• Broad, high-acuity practice with real autonomy and close physician partnership.
• Visible impact in a community that relies on its emergency department.
• A mission-driven culture that puts patient care ahead of volume alone.
• A close-knit team where sound clinical judgment is seen and trusted.
• Skill growth through resuscitation, transfer coordination, and cross-coverage.

How to Apply

If you want every shift to matter to an entire community, apply now and bring your calm, competence, and compassion to the emergency department.