Job Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN ED - Emergency Department for a travel nursing job in New Haven, Connecticut.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: ED - Emergency Department
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 08/24/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
Registered Nurse (RN) – Emergency Department (ED)
Location: Yale New Haven Health System (YNHH)
Facility Type: Short-Term Acute Care Hospital | Level I Trauma Center
Charting System: Epic
Shift: Days – 3x12 Hours (7:00 AM – 7:00 PM)
Contract Type: Travel Assignment
Position Overview
Yale New Haven Health System is seeking an experienced Emergency Department Registered Nurse (RN) to join its dynamic and high-acuity ED team. This opportunity offers experience within one of the nation's leading Level I Trauma Centers while caring for a diverse patient population across all age groups.
The selected traveler will be assigned to one campus with the possibility of rotating between YNHH campuses based on operational needs. Travelers will not be assigned to trauma/resuscitation rooms, triage, or locked behavioral health units.
Schedule & Staffing
- Shift: 3x12-hour Days (7:00 AM – 7:00 PM)
- Weekend Requirement: Every Other Weekend
- Patient Ratios:
- Days: 1:6
- Nights: 1:6
- Weekends: 1:6
- Guaranteed Hours: Yes
- Block Scheduling: Not Available
- On-Call Requirement: None
- Floating: Required within scope and between YNHH campuses as needed
Experience Requirements
Required
- Minimum 2 years of Emergency Department RN experience
- Community Hospital experience
- Experience managing patient assignments of 1:5–6
- NIHSS Certification
Considered
- 1.5 years of ED experience from a Level I Trauma Center may be accepted
Preferred
- Trauma Level I or Level II experience
- Teaching Hospital experience
- Epic EMR experience
- Pediatric Emergency Department experience
Required Certifications
- BLS (AHA)
- ACLS (AHA)
- TNCC
Preferred Certifications
- CPI
- ENPC
- PALS
Clinical Skills & Competencies
Emergency Department
- Acute Psychosis
- Drug Overdose Management
- Psychiatric Holds
- Suicidal Patient Care
- Managing Violent or Aggressive Behavior
- Emergency Medication Administration
- Procedural Sedation Monitoring
IV Therapy & Vascular Access
- Peripheral IV Insertion and Maintenance
- Central Line Care and Management
- Blood Product Administration
- Arterial Line Management
- Phlebotomy
Respiratory Care
- Care of Ventilated Patients
- Intubation
- Chest Tube Management
- BiPAP/CPAP Management
- Arterial Blood Gas (ABG) Interpretation
Neurology & Trauma
- Stroke (CVA) Care
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Neuro-Trauma
- Hypothermia Protocol / Arctic Sun
- Spinal Cord Injury Management
Cardiac Care
- Cardiac Monitoring
- Dysrhythmia Recognition and Management
- 12-Lead ECG/EKG Acquisition
- Management of Multi-System Organ Dysfunction
Orthopedic & Trauma Care
- Orthopedic Trauma
- Splint Application and Management
- Trauma Stabilization
Pediatric Emergency Care
Experience with the following conditions is preferred:
- Asthma
- Burns
- Epiglottitis
- Head Injury
- Hyperglycemia
- Infections
- Respiratory Illnesses
- Seizures
- Near Drowning
- Poison Ingestion
- Sickle Cell Crisis
- Skin Disorders
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Child Abuse and Neglect Recognition
Facility Information
Yale New Haven Health System
- Facility Type: Short-Term Acute Care
- Trauma Designation: Level I Trauma Center
- Total Staffed Beds: 1,567
- Daily ED Census: Approximately 80 Patients
- Average Daily Visits: Approximately 180
- ED Rooms: 49
- Stroke Certified Facility
- STEMI Certified Facility
Patient Population
- Infants
- Pediatrics
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Geriatrics
Interdisciplinary Support Available
- IV Team
- Respiratory Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Radiology
- Social Services
- Pharmacy
- Interpreter Services
- Transportation Services
- Unit Secretary Support
Additional Unit Information
Saint Raphael Campus (SRC)
- Community Emergency Department
- Small Pediatric Population
- Stroke and Chest Pain Centers
- Non-Trauma Campus
- Undergoing Expansion and Renovation
- Growing Neurological Services
Behavioral Health
- Locked Psychiatric Units staffed by Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES) RNs and Mental Health Workers
Additional Information
- Travel Experience Required: No
- First-Time Travelers Accepted: Yes
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About Prime Staffing
At Prime Staffing, we understand the importance of finding the perfect fit for both our clients and candidates. Prime Staffing utilizes a unique matchmaking approach, providing the most qualified contingent staffing to our clients, and the most competitive contracts to our workforce. Our experienced team takes the time to get to know both our clients and candidates, their needs, and preferences, to ensure that each placement is a success.
We offer a wide range of staffing services including temporary, temp-to-perm, and direct hire placements. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | New Haven, CT |
| Industry | All |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.primestaffingnyc.com/ |
About Company
Prime Staffing is one of New York's leading staffing firms specializing in temporary and full-time/permanent placements across multiple industries including; healthcare, business, consulting, finance, legal services, entertainment, media, information Technology(IT) and retail.
Prime Staffing is certified by The Joint Commission for its compliance, and integrity, in supplying superior healthcare staffing services to many of the finest healthcare organizations in the country. In addition to its impeccable reputation for providing travel and per diem health care staffing, Prime has become an integral partner in staffing some of the most prestigious business organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the country including multi-national bank and investment firms, international business consulting firms, global law firms and some of the most prominent media and entertainment outlets.
Prime's success and rapid growth is direct result if its most basic founding principle-provide our clients with the most experienced and qualified employees and, likewise, provide our employees with the best jobs at the top organizations in their respective professional disciplines.
Prime Staffing is a high-energy company with a corporate culture that embraces innovation, new technology and personalized customer service. We are confident in our ability to serve you professionally by placing esteemed and experienced individuals. Our continuous expansions enables us to adapt to the continuously changing needs of our clients and employees. Through our team of seasoned professionals we maintain respect, integrity and superiority in all aspects of our business.
At Prime, we work diligently to recognize your objectives and create programs to meet them. We believe that ardent customer service is an essential component to remaining at the forefront of a competitive marketplace. Prime utilizes its expertise, and decades of combined experience in the industry, to continuously improve, implement cutting-edge programs and maintaining our position in the market as one of the fastest growing firms in the Tri-State area.
It is our goal to build long-term relationships with clients and employees based on a foundation of trust, mutual respect and our expertise in the field of staffing. We guarantee dependability, consistency and security in all aspects of operation. Prime Staffing is the Superior Staffing Solution.
Skills
- Acute Careunmatched
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)unmatched
- Arterial Linesunmatched
- Behavioral Healthunmatched
- Cardiac Monitoringunmatched
- Cerebral Vascular Accidentunmatched
- Community and Social Servicesunmatched
- Electrocardiogramunmatched
- Electronic Medical Recordsunmatched
- Emergency Careunmatched
- Emergency Nursingunmatched
- Epic Systemsunmatched
- Geriatricsunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Hospitalunmatched
- Language Interpreterunmatched
- Medication Administrationunmatched
- Neurologyunmatched
- Neurotrauma (Traumatic Brain Injury)unmatched
- Nursingunmatched
- On Callunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- Pediatricsunmatched
- Pharmacyunmatched
- Phlebotomyunmatched
- Physical Therapyunmatched
- Psychiatry and Mental Healthunmatched
- Radiologyunmatched
- Registered Nurse (RN)unmatched
- Respiratory Therapyunmatched
- Social Workunmatched
- Spinal Cord Injuryunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Training/Teachingunmatched
- Trauma-Neuro Intensive Care (TNCC)unmatched
- Unit Secretaryunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
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