Job description
Registered Nurse - Emergency Room
Start Date: 12-14-2026
End Date: 03-15-2027
Contract Type: Travel Contract
Hours per Week: 36
Candidate Pay Rate: $75.60 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: ED
- # beds: 18 Beds (Fast track staffed with midlevel's & LVNs)
- Certs: BLS, ACLS, PALS, NIHSS,
- Ratios: 1 to 4 unless ICU patient would be 1 to 2
- EMR: Cerner
- Charge Nurse: Shift manager & a resource nurse
- Nurse Aides: ED Techs are EMT or aides from other units
- Weekend Requirement: 4 weekend shifts in a 4 week schedule
- Weekends are Fri/Sat for nights & Sat/Sun for days"
- Holidays: 1 major & 1 minor
- Scrub Color: Navy blue. If you wear a scrub jacket it also must be navy. If you wear an undershirt underneath your scrub top it must be navy, white, or black.
- Tele: Phillips
- Vents: yes
- Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: Yes - only use MD's in the ER
- IV Team: No
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: Yes & Omnicell
- Shifts: 12's Schedules are for 4 weeks. Block scheduling is not allowed. Traveler needs open availability and they will NOT accommodate PRN schedules.
- Floating: Floating could happen between the 2 facilities to the ER. If floated prior to shift, would get a 2 hour notice prior start. Midshift floating could happen. The facilities are only 6.5 miles apart.
- Floor specific orientation: 2 shifts at the primary campus & 1 shift at the other campus
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: Less peds than Mercy Southwest campus. This campus has CDCR (correctional patients) officer comes from the prison & stays with them. All OB are transfer to the other campus. A little more homeless & indigent population here. No cardiac patients. These would be stabilized & transferred out.
- Additional Notes: This must be their primary job. They will not work around another work schedule to accommodate hours. Must be very teamwork oriented. They treat between 85 - 115 patients per day with an average of 100 patients per day.
- Years of Experience: 2
- Shift Notes: Nights, EOW, first to float
- Specialty: ER
- Start Date: 2026-12-14
- End Date: 2027-03-15
- Created Date: 2026-11-05
- Required Hours/Week: 36
- 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.