Hear from one of our nurse managers in their own words:

“Our Emergency Department at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is a dynamic, innovative, and ever-evolving environment, comprised of low to high-acuity patients of all ages, a cutting-edge "Landing Zone" designed for rapid interventions with specialized procedures for urgent to critically ill patients, and a dedicated Behavioral Health unit focused on providing safe, compassionate mental health care. The unit zone structure allows for specialized, efficient and empathetic patient-centered emergency services across a wide spectrum of needs.”

                        ~ Debra Goodrum, MSN, RN, Nurse Manager – Emergency Department

    Our Emergency Department features 43 beds staffed by a team of skilled team of RNs, LPNs, Paramedics, AEMTs,  EMTs, and LNAs. As the only Level 1 Trauma Center in New Hampshire, we collaborate closely with our sister hospital affiliates to care for patients requiring urgent to critical, neurological, cardiac, obstetrical, pediatric, medical, or trauma services. We serve our region with a high volume of referrals, transfers, and trauma consults from outside facilities, in addition to providing comprehensive emergency care to our local community. Annually, we treat approximately 35,000 patients, about 100 patients/day, ranging from neonates to the elderly, presenting with complex, multi-system health conditions.

    Our nursing team is trained in adult and pediatric resuscitation, acute and outpatient care, trauma/stroke/sepsis response, mental health care, and delivers procedural sedation at the bedside. On any given day, a nurse might assist with a fracture reduction for an adult skier, stabilize a pediatric patient experiencing an asthma exacerbation, resuscitate an unresponsive stroke victim, or provide life-saving care to a respiratory or cardiac arrest patient. Each day brings new challenges and wonderful patients making our shifts engaging as we always learn something new and cutting edge each day.

A few highlights from being part of our emergency nursing team at Dartmouth Health in New Hampshire.

• We have loan repayment up to $20,000
• We offer Relocation Assistance and a Housing Coordinator to help take on the burden of finding a home.
• We have competitive nursing rates
• We offer generous tuition reimbursement
• We have a very popular "earned time" plan
• We have extensive CEU/Training programs
• We offer a rigorous, research-focused environment
• We offer clinical pathways for professional development (leadership, quality or education).

Why are we so unique? We are a nationally recognized health system in the middle of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We understand that “quality of life” means different things to different people, but we are confident you will love it here as we have beautiful, rural and suburban housing options, world-class primary, secondary and graduate schools, hundreds of lakes, thousands of miles of hiking trails and some of the best skiing in the country. This means you can be a happy nurse with more quality time with friends, family, pets, or maybe just quiet hikes by yourself. Our idea of traffic is a line at the chair lift on the ski mountain.

Read more about Dartmouth Hitchcock and why YOU should work here.

We are Dartmouth Health, one integrated, award-winning health system of diverse facilities across New Hampshire and Vermont. From rural critical access clinics to academic medicine and research, you will find the opportunity, training, benefits, and support to help you thrive in your career. We are an organization focused on the success of every employee in every role and want you to be part of our team. Join Dartmouth Health and help us shape the future of healthcare.

The Clinical Nurse is an engaged and credentialed member of the Professional Nursing Organization and is responsible for autonomous practice directed by the professional tenets of practitioner, leader/decision maker, scientist and transferor. The Clinical Nurse is responsible for utilizing the nursing process to provide evidence-based care and to continuously monitor and evaluate practice to ensure safe passage of patients that is in the best interest of populations served.

1. Practitioner
2. Utilizes the nursing process to assess, diagnose, identify outcomes, plan, implement and evaluate an individualized plan of care.
3. Utilizes critical thinking and the nursing process to anticipate and recognize changes in patient status, taking action to modify the plan of care or to elevate to the care team as necessary.
4. Practices in accordance with the ANA Code of Ethics to advocate for patients, uphold their autonomy in decision-making, ensure informed consent and assist patients in families in expressing self-determination.
5. Actively seeks feedback and acts to improve performance.
6. Engages in the governance of practice.
7. Leader/Decision Maker
8. Manages interpersonal relationships for self and with others.
9. Mentors colleagues for the advancement of nursing practice and the profession.
10. Assumes authority and accountability for the nursing care of patients while appropriately delegating elements of care to others members of the care delivery team in accordance with laws, regulations and policies and procedures.
11. Prioritizes and organizes time to optimize patient outcomes.
12. Scientist
13. Actively seeks out the most current evidence and standards and applies and translates to daily practice.
14. Role models a culture of inquiry, developing new knowledge by contributing to research, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice at the local level.
15. Transferor
16. Communicates effectively in a variety of formats in all areas of practice.
17. Actively partners with others to effect change that produces positive outcomes through the exchange of knowledge.
18. Precepts the student nurse, nurse extern, nurse resident, experienced clinical nurse and other members of the healthcare team.
19. Performs other duties as required or assigned.

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required.
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) preferred.

• Licensed Registered Nurse with New Hampshire eligibility.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certificate required upon hire
• ACLS Certificate required within 6 months of hire date.
• PALS Certificate required within 6 months of hire date.