Overview
Responsibilities
Qualifications
**This position will be physically located in Marshall Islands in support of LOGCAP**
The Registered Nurse EM (PH) provides comprehensive, patient-centered nursing care to individuals presenting with emergent, urgent, and non-urgent medical conditions within a Military Treatment Facility Emergency Department. The RN supports mission readiness by delivering high-quality emergency nursing services in accordance with DoD, DHA, and professional nursing standards, including care in high-acuity and operational environments.
Responsibilities
This position description is subject to change at any time as needed to meet the requirements of the program or company
- Perform rapid triage and assessment of patients presenting to the Emergency Department.
- Provide emergency nursing care for medical, surgical, and traumatic conditions across the lifespan.
- Administer medications, blood products, IV fluids, and other therapies in accordance with provider orders and clinical protocols.
- Assist with emergency procedures, resuscitation efforts, and trauma responses.
- Monitor patient condition and promptly recognize and respond to clinical deterioration.
- Accurately document patient care, assessments, interventions, and outcomes in the electronic medical record (EMR).
- Collaborate with physicians, advanced practice providers, medics, and ancillary staff to coordinate care.
- Participate in mass casualty incidents, disaster response, and emergency preparedness activities.
- Maintain compliance with infection control, safety, HIPAA, and patient privacy requirements.
- Participate in quality assurance, peer review, and performance improvement initiatives.
- Provide patient and family education related to emergency care, follow-up instructions, and discharge planning.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Minimum Qualifications: Education/Certifications: One year related experience may be substituted for one year of education, if degree is required.
- Education:
- Graduate of an accredited Associate, Diploma, or Baccalaureate degree program in Nursing (National League for Nursing or equivalent).
- Licensure/Registration:
- Current, active, valid, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in at least one U.S. state, the District of Columbia, or a U.S. territory.
- License must remain unencumbered throughout employment.
- Experience:
- Minimum of five (5) years of recent Emergency Department nursing experience within the past three (3) years.
- Experience in trauma, critical care, or austere medical environments preferred, isolated island.
- Certifications (Required):
- Basic Life Support (BLS) – American Heart Association
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) or Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC) preferred
- Must have ability to obtain and maintain a Child Care National Agency Check (CNACI) clearance requiring US Citizenship or Permanent Residency..
- Additional Requirements
- Must meet DoD credentialing, privileging, immunization, and deployment requirements.
- Ability to work rotating shifts, nights, weekends, holidays, and on-call as required by mission needs.
- Skills
- Strong clinical knowledge of emergency nursing principles and practices.
- Ability to function effectively in high-stress, fast-paced environments, isolated island.
- Proficiency in emergency equipment, cardiac monitoring, and resuscitative techniques.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Familiarity with DoD healthcare systems and emergency protocols preferred.
- Working Conditions:
- Must be capable of working in an extreme weather conditions with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Indoor and/or outdoor environment with very adverse and harsh conditions (i.e., hot, wet, tropical environment with average temperatures of 130 degrees in the summer months).
- Includes some industrial production environment conditions as well.
- The worker is subject to hazards. Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals
- The worker is subject to both environmental conditions. Activities occur inside and outside.
- Physical Requirements:
- Medium work. Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
- Work may require heavy lifting, stooping, climbing, prolonged standing, prolonged sitting, and working with or in areas where a potential could exist for exposure to physical, chemical, or biological agents.
- Employee use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is required for some situations. PPE includes, but is not limited to, head, foot, torso, respiratory, vision, and hearing protective devices.
- Must comply with all Fire and Safety Regulations and post policies.