Job description
Registered Nurse - Emergency Room
Start Date: 11-30-2026
End Date: 03-01-2027
Contract Type: Travel Contract
Hours per Week: 36
Candidate Pay Rate: $72.80 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: - Unit: ER
- # beds/trauma bays: 14 beds, 2 treatment chairs, in may will be breaking ground for a new ER
- # Psych/seclusion rooms: No
- # patients per day: 65 per day on avg but this can fluctuate quite a bit
- Certs: ACLS, BLS, and PALS or ENPC is required
- Ratios: 1 to 4 generally, 1 to 2 for ICU patients, 1 to 1 for very critical patient
- EMR: Cerner
- Charge Nurse: ANM on from 9-9, charge nurse during night
- Nurse Aides/Paramedics: EMT's usually one that is scheduled from 10a-10p and one from 11a-11p
- Security/Patient sitters: techs will be sitters as needed, security is nearby lobby if needed for combative patient, security will assist with psych holds
- Weekend Requirement: one weekend per month is required Day - Sat, Sun Night - Fri, Sat, Sun
- Holidays: work them in with perm staff rotation
- Scrub Color: navy
- Tele/Monitor Techs: phillips -EMT's will watch tele but not 24/7
- Vents: Yes
- ED Physicans/Mid-Levels: MD's and midlevels used
- Lab Draws: 60% of time nurses draw their own labs
- IV Team: No
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: No - use marian for after hours after 10pm
- Shifts: they will try to accommodate block scheduling but not guaranteed, 12 hour shifts, 5:30am - 6pm, 9a-9p, 11a-11p, 5:30pm-6am
- Floating: No
- Floor specific orientation: 3-4 shifts with preceptor
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: trauma they will stabilize and transfer, Stemi's, strokes, peds, flu, abd pain, ortho injuries, etc. 70% of their population is ESI severity index scoring of acuity level 1, 2, or 3. Pt acuity as a whole is very high. High admission rate as well. Drips include propofol, precadex, cardizem, etc.
- Additional Notes: 2-3 years of ER experience is required, travel experience is preferred, if working nights they must have peds experience because there will only be 1-2 other nurses working with them, trauma experience is highly preferred
- Years of Experience: 2
- Shift Notes: 7p-7a, EOW first to float
- Specialty: ER (Emergency Room)
- Start Date: 2026-11-30
- End Date: 2027-03-01
- Created Date: 2026-10-29
- Required Hours/Week: 36
- Start Time: 10:00
- End Time: 22:00
- Positions: 1
- 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.