Westmed Ambulance Service is one of the largest ambulance providers in Northern California. The Operations team is responsible for Emergency and Non-Emergency calls throughout East and South Bay counties of Northern California with deployment centers in Alameda and Santa Clara. Come grow your career with us and learn why we are the quality ambulance service of choice for so many.
The Westmed Ambulance Critical Care Transport Registered Nurse is a self-motivated role with the ability to function in a high stress environment. This role will be responsible for the most critically and unstable patients (adult and pediatric) with life threating conditions. The ideal candidate will be both a team leader as well as a team member to work with EMT’s and Paramedic’s in unique healthcare environments.
Responsibilities:
- Assessing patients quickly upon arrival
- Heart monitor, ventilator, invasive monitoring, infusion pumps, recording, and evaluating vital signs
- Transporting the patient quickly and safely to a hospital or long-term care facility
- Preparing patients for the receiving facility
- Administering medications
- Infusing blood products
- Monitoring patients for reactions to medication
- Responding to changes in the patient’s condition
- Collaborating and communicating with other members of the transport care team
- Acting as an advocate for the patient
- Communicating with the hospital staff and medical team about the patient being transported
- Performing procedures as ordered and needed
- Consistently follows evidence based practice bundles and nursing standards/procedures to provide nursing care that eliminates preventable events of patient harm and promotes excellent patient outcomes
Requirements:
- Effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Minimum of 3 year’s experience with either Critical Care, Emergency Department or Critical Care Transport or a combination of the fields
- Ability to lift up to 125 lbs. without assistance
- Ability to accommodate a moderate amount of standing, sitting, and walking
- Ability to accommodate a moderate to rigorous amount of static pushing, pulling, reaching and lifting (knuckle height and ankle height)
- Ability to hear routine ambulance and medical equipment noises.
- Must be able to wear a commercially available respirator mask with proper fit, when required.
- Good close and distant visual capability
- Good manual dexterity
- Ability to work within a 12-24 job environment
Schedule:
- 1 week on and 2 weeks off
- Alternative schedules available as well
Certifications:
- Unincumbered CA RN license
- Current CPR (AHA)
- Active ACLS certification
- Active PALS certification
- NRP within 3 months of hire
Westmed Ambulance Service is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. It is Westmed Ambulance Service's policy to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants for employment, and not to discriminate on any basis of age, citizenship, color, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, military or veteran status, marital status, national origin, race, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any class protected by State law.
