Emergency Nursing
Emergency nursing involves fast assessment skills and response to a wide variety of trauma or illness, while providing care across all ages and cultures.
Assessment, stabilization, intervention, and patient and family education are key ER nurse tools.
As an emergency room nurse, you become a part of the multidisciplinary emergency response team that works together to not only provide individual care, but also to provide fast and accurate stabilizing care to individuals and their loved ones in a crisis situation.
Emergency nursing involves fast assessment skills and response to a wide variety of trauma or illness, while providing care across all ages and cultures.
Assessment, stabilization, intervention, and patient and family education are key ER nurse tools.
As an emergency room nurse, you become a part of the multidisciplinary emergency response team that works together to not only provide individual care, but also to provide fast and accurate stabilizing care to individuals and their loved ones in a crisis situation.
Emergency Department
- Number of beds: 54, including three trauma bays, two observations rooms, and one large fracture room
- Type of patients: treatment of all types of patients injuries and illnesses
- Clinical make-up: RNs, LPNs, nursing aides, emergency department technicians I and II, unit desk clerks, and clinical nurse educator
- Shift availability: 8-hour shifts, 12-hour shifts, 8 and 12 hour shifts
- Programs/councils: Scheduling Council, ED Clinical Practice made up of CEPs, Domestic Violence Committee, Level 1 Heart Attack Council, Nursing Retention and Communication Council, Clinical Practice Council, Nursing Service Quality Performance Improvement Council
Life Flight
- Services provided: emergency medical care and transportation of on-sceen, medical scene, and inter-facility transfer patients
- Flight crew: flight RN, flight paramedic, pilot
- Shift availability: 12-hour shifts, 12 and 24 hour shifts
- Programs/Councils: Nursing Service Quality Performance Improvement Council, Safety Committee, Regional EMS Councils
