Emergency Department Float Registered Nurse

Quick Facts

• Role: Registered Nurse, Emergency Department Float (West Region Resource Team)
• Schedule: Full-time Nights

Description

This RN float role provides clinically competent emergency nursing care through the nursing process—assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation. Each shift may be worked in a different unit or hospital, offering broad experience across multiple specialty areas. You will collaborate with patients, families, physicians, and ancillary staff while using evidence-based practice and maintaining professional nursing standards.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze patient data; identify expected outcomes and develop individualized plans of care
• Coordinate care delivery and evaluate progress toward attainment of outcomes
• Direct nursing care and determine appropriate utilization of any assistant providing direct patient care
• Collaborate with patients, families, physicians, and ancillary staff; create documented, outcome-focused care plans
• Participate in shared governance, committee work, and unit projects
• Evaluate and document patient responses to nursing interventions in the health record; individualize the plan of care
• Use best available evidence, including research findings, to guide practice decisions

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Current Illinois Registered Professional Nurse (RN) license
• Basic Life Support (BLS)
• ACLS
• PALS
• NRP within 1 year of hire
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to collaborate with others
• Strong analytic abilities

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being and protection for unexpected life events
• Eligibility determined by employment classification—see detailed benefits information
• Sign-on bonus eligibility rules apply if included in the posting