
RN - Acute Care Float Pool - UW Medical Center-Northwest (Days)
Part-timeSeattle, WAPart-time$51.97–91.17/hrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
UW Medical Center–Northwest’s Acute Care Resource Team seeks a Float Nurse to provide staffing coverage across inpatient acute care units, including telemetry, medical-surgical, rehabilitation, and surgical services. The role offers cross-training on specialty units and involves bedside care on a 3x12 day-shift schedule, with rotating weekends. The position is part-time and based in Seattle.
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No Telework
Seattle, WA
Part time
REQ-0000138043
Job Description
UW Medical Center–Northwest - Acute Care Resource Team has an excellent opportunity for a Float Nurse .
WORK SCHEDULE
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3x12 shift schedule
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Day shifts (7:00am-7:30pm)
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Rotating weekend shifts required
DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION
Our Resource Team provides short term and long term staffing coverage on our inpatient acute care units, which include our telemetry, medical-surgical, rehabilitation, and surgical services floors. This position will also have cross-training opportunities on our specialty units, including the Emergency Department, ICU, Childbirth Center, and our inpatient behavioral health floors. This is a great opportunity to provide bedside care in a role where no two shifts are alike.
POSITION HIGHLIGHTS
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Work on a variety of inpatient units
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Join a team where no two shifts are alike
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Cross-train on our specialty floors, including behavioral health
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Provide life-changing care for our hospital patients
PRIMARY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
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Identify care needs across a broad spectrum of hospital departments
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Triage patient care priorities in collaboration with the nursing supervisor
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Work alongside doctors, social workers, care managers, and therapists
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Restore patients’ health by following evidence-based nursing practices
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Monitor and administer medications and IVs
REQUIREMENTS
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3 years of acute care inpatient hospital nursing experience
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BLS
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Active licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in Washington State
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Exposure to behavioral health nursing or a willingness to learn the fundamentals of behavioral health nursing
Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and/or registration.
ABOUT UW MEDICAL CENTER-NORTHWEST
UW Medical Center is an acute care hospital located in Seattle with two campuses: Montlake and Northwest. As the No. 1 hospital in Seattle and Washington State since 2012 (U.S. News & World Report) and nationally ranked in six specialties, UW Medical Center prides itself on compassionate patient care as well as its pioneering medical advances.
The UW Medical Center–Northwest campus offers emergency and inpatient and outpatient medical, surgical, and therapeutic care. It is located in north Seattle on a beautiful, easy-to-access 44-acre campus that includes the neighboring Northwest Outpatient Medical Center and Specialty Care Meridian Pavilion .
Teamwork. Community. Opportunity. (https://www.uwmedicine.org/about/career-opportunities/uw-medical-center-northwest)
ABOUT UW MEDICINE – WHERE YOUR IMPACT GOES FURTHER
UW Medicine is Washington’s only health system that includes a top-rated medical school and an internationally recognized research center. UW Medicine’s mission is to improve the health of the public by advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty care to the people of the region, and preparing tomorrow’s physicians, scientists and other health professionals.
All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored. Nearly 29,000 healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators work in the UW Medicine family of organizations that includes: Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center - Montlake, UW Medical Center - Northwest, Valley Medical Center, UW Medicine Primary Care, UW Physicians, UW School of Medicine, and Airlift Northwest.
Become part of our team. (https://www.uwmedicine.org/jobs) Join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community.
Compensation, Benefits and Position Details
Pay Range Minimum:
$51.97 hourly
Pay Range Maximum:
$91.17 hourly
Other Compensation:
BSN (or higher) premium - $1.00/hour Certification premium - $1.25/hour Weekend premium - $4.00/hour Overtime pay
Benefits:
For information about benefits for this position, visit https://www.washington.edu/jobs/benefits-for-uw-staff/
Shift:
First Shift (United States of America)
Temporary or Regular?
This is a regular position
FTE (Full-Time Equivalent):
90.00%
Union/Bargaining Unit:
WSNA UWMC Northwest
ABOUT UW MEDICINE – WHERE YOUR IMPACT GOES FURTHER
UW Medicine is Washington’s only health system that includes a top-rated medical school and an internationally recognized research center. UW Medicine’s mission is to improve the health of the public by advancing medical knowledge, providing outstanding primary and specialty care to the people of the region, and preparing tomorrow’s physicians, scientists and other health professionals.
All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored. Nearly 29,000 healthcare professionals, researchers, and educators work in the UW Medicine family of organizations that includes: Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center - Montlake, UW Medical Center - Northwest, UW Medicine Primary Care, UW Physicians, UW School of Medicine, and Airlift Northwest.
Our Commitment
The University of Washington is committed to fostering an inclusive, respectful and welcoming community for all. As an equal opportunity employer, the University considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, or veteran status consistent with UW Executive Order No. 81 (https://policy.uw.edu/directory/po/executive-orders/eo-81-prohibiting-discrimination-harassment-and-sexual-misconduct/) .
To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 or [email protected] .
Applicants considered for this position will be required to disclose if they are the subject of any substantiated findings or current investigations related to sexual misconduct at their current employment and past employment. Disclosure is required under Washington state law (https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=28B.112.080) .
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How this job compares
Set against the 29,644 open Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$51.97–91.17/hr
- Washington median$46–76/hr216 hourly ranges
- US median$34–45/hr13,038 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $71.57/hr, is 20% above the Washington median midpoint ($60/hr) — in the top quarter of Nurse hourly ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 330 open Nurse jobs in Washington and 29,644 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Virginia Mason Franciscan Health41 open
- Providence39 open
- Swedish Health Services31 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — more than three in four Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 12,276 postings).
- Education
- 3,285 of the 29,644 open Nurse jobs (11%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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