Travel Nurse RN - Emergency Room (ER) / Trauma in Chula Vista, CA

Job Title

Registered Nurse – Emergency Room

Location

Chula Vista, California

Schedule / Job Type

Contract | Onsite

Key Responsibilities

• Provides individualized, holistic, and age-specific patient and family care that progresses patients toward self-identified goals using the nursing process.
• Performs comprehensive assessments, develops plans of care, implements nursing interventions, and evaluates patient and family progress toward established goals.
• Serves as a patient and family advocate, encouraging participation in decision-making and upholding individual and family rights.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary healthcare team members to coordinate patient care activities, manage complex clinical situations, and expedite patient progress.
• Identifies and addresses patient and family educational needs through individualized education plans, applying adult-learning theory and appropriate resources.
• Delegates and assigns care to other healthcare team members within their scope of practice and communicates patient care needs through thorough documentation per department policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Active California Registered Nurse (RN) license required.
• Minimum of three years of recent RN experience in an RN role.
• Minimum of two years of recent RN experience in a specialty area.
• Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) or Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required.
• Current BLS, ACLS, NIH Stroke Scale, and PALS certifications required.
• CPI or comparable crisis prevention/intervention certification required (must be an 8-hour course with at least half of the class completed in person).

Preferred Experience / Skills

• Experience working in an Emergency Room or high-acuity clinical environment.
• Demonstrated ability to recognize and respond to complex, new, or high-risk clinical situations with appropriate resource utilization.

Why Join Us

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic Emergency Room setting providing high-quality, patient-centered care.
• Contract role offering flexibility and the chance to contribute to a collaborative, multidisciplinary healthcare team.