Job description
Registered Nurse - Emergency Room
Start Date: 12-07-2026
End Date: 03-08-2027
Contract Type: Travel Contract
Hours per Week: 36
Candidate Pay Rate: $67.90 per hour
About United Health Care Staffing
At United Health Care Staffing (UHC Staffing), we believe healthcare staffing should be more than just finding a job. We are here to connect amazing professionals with opportunities that make their careers exciting, rewarding, and meaningful. With us, you're not just signing up for a contract you are joining a team that's got your back, answers your calls, and maybe even cracks a joke or two to brighten your day. Think of us as the travel buddy who handles the logistics while you focus on what you do best helping people heal.
Education
- Charting System: Cerner
- Unit Notes: 12/7 START DATE ONLY. ONLY ORIENTATION IN DECEMBER
- Unit: ER
- Fast track: Yes- fast track is ran out of a separate area, typically travelers will be in main ER.
- # beds/trauma bays: 24 beds, 0 trauma bays
- # Psych/seclusion rooms: Does have a private room if needed depending on behavior, otherwise have an overflow room where 4 patients can sit together
- Requirements: Minimum 2 years experience, trauma experience preferred, okay with first time travelers
- Certs: ACLS, BLS, NIHSS, PALS
- # Patients per day: 250 visits per day
- Ratios: 2:1/4:1
- EMR: Cerner power chart
- Charge Nurse: Yes- doesn't take patients
- Nurse Aides/Paramedics: ER techs to help with tech duties
- Security/Patient sitters: ER techs
- Weekend Requirement: Every other weekend, Fri, Sat, Sun is counted as the weekend, could be every weekend depending on staffing
- Holidays: Yes- will work them into perm staff rotation- mostly needed on holidays, so expect to work the holidays.
- Scrub Color: RN- Blue, Techs- Green
- Tele/Monitor Techs: 22 monitors hardwired- GE, In room and at nurses station
- Vents: Yes- RT typically maintains
- ED Physicans/Mid-Levels: Yes- Have MD, PA, NP
- Lab Draws: Have phlebotomists that will draw unless central line.
- IV Team: None
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: Yes 24 hrs
- Shifts: 12 hr shifts- 0645-1915/1845-0715, 9a,12p, 3p (day shift is considered 7a,9a,12p, night shift 3p,7p) -must be flexible
- Floating: None
- Floor specific orientation: 1 day of orientation on floor
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: STEMI receiving facility, Cardiac, Sepsis, ETOH, Stroke, DKA, all types of patients
- Additional Notes: They break care into 3 parts: fast track, treat and anticipate disposition, and acute care. no In Patient Pediatric nor BH unit
- Years of Experience: 2
- Shift Notes: Mids, EOW, first to float
- Specialty: ER
- Start Date: 2026-12-07
- End Date: 2027-03-08
- Created Date: 2026-10-20
- Required Hours/Week: 36
- Positions: 2
- Short Description: RN (Registered Nurse)
- Contract Type:
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Ready to start your next adventure as a Registered Nurse - Emergency Room? Let's get you moving forward!
Send your resume to [email protected] or call us at 408-441-9200 today.
Why UHCS
Weekly or bi-weekly pay, medical/dental/vision, a SIMPLE IRA with employer contribution, tests paid on qualifying assignments with payroll deduction available, and one recruiter who stays with you for the whole assignment — reachable after hours. Every placement is credentialed to Joint Commission standards, so your packet is accepted the first time.