RN STAFF NURSE II
San Luis Obispo, CAJob$51.57–76.96/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Registered Nurse, Staff Nurse II provides individualized care in an emergency department, including triage, assessments, nursing history and physical documentation, and implementation of patient care plans. The role collaborates with an interdisciplinary team and supports discharge planning. Required credentials include a California RN registration and BLS-CPR; ACLS and PALS must be obtained within 90 days. Previous Emergency Department experience is preferred.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Registered Nurse, Staff Nurse II, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.
Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.
To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.
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Performs appropriate and age specific triage on all patients within 5 minutes of arrival to ED including chief complaint, v.s., time and signature.
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Assignment of level of triage as appropriate based on brief history and indicated vital signs. Performs and documents appropriate nursing history and physical admission on an ongoing basis.
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Performs and documents age specific basic physiological condition of the patient to include; mental status, skin signs, pain level and complaint specific information.
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Reflects psychosocial needs of the patient.
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Reflects perceptions of patient and/or significant others of his health problem(s) and his expectations of the present hospitalization.
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Provides information needed to begin discharge planning.
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Job Requirements
Required
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Registered Nurse: CA (RN:CA)
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Basic Life Support - CPR (BLS-CPR)
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Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within 90 Days
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Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within 90 Days
Preferred
- Previous Emergency Department experience
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1946, Dignity Health - French Hospital Medical Center is a 112-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in San Luis Obispo, California. Serving over 150,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, orthopedics, and a family birthing center. Additionally, French Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has achieved an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for every reporting period since 2012.
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Pay Range
$51.57 - $76.96 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 59,203 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$51.57–76.96/hr
- California median$54–75/hr1,531 hourly ranges
- US median$38–54/hr25,131 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $64.27/hr, is close to the California median midpoint ($64/hr) — in the middle half of Registered Nurse hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,395 open Registered Nurse jobs in California and 59,203 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Kaiser Permanente286 open
- Health Advocates Network219 open
- Sutter Health166 open
- Experience
- Registered Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (29,125 postings).
- Education
- 4,191 of the 59,203 open Registered Nurse jobs (7%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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