Registered Nurse Emergency Department jobs in West Allis, WI

A patient comes in with stroke-like symptoms. Walk me through what you do in the first ten minutes.

working knowledge of stroke protocol given the hospital's Primary Stroke and Gold Plus recognition

What's your experience with ACLS, PALS, or TNCC, and if you don't have all of them yet, how have you picked up new certifications quickly in the past?

readiness for the required certifications and general trainability

Walk me through how you triage a busy waiting room when you've got a chest pain patient, a kid with a fever, and someone in behavioral health crisis all checking in around the same time.

whether the candidate can apply acuity-based prioritization under pressure rather than first-come-first-served thinking

Tell me about a time a patient's condition changed suddenly and you had to act before a provider was available.

comfort with autonomous clinical judgment and recognizing deterioration early

You've got a patient coming in by EMS with signs of an acute stroke. Walk me through what you do from the moment they hit the door.

familiarity with stroke protocol and door-to-needle time expectations given the unit's Primary Stroke certification

This is a Level 4 trauma center seeing about 42,000 visits a year, including pediatric and geriatric patients. What's different about how you assess a geriatric trauma patient versus a younger adult?

clinical knowledge specific to the geriatric-certified ED population, like atypical presentations and fall risk

Tell me about a shift where you were assigned more patients than felt safe. What did you do?

how the person balances patient safety advocacy against team pressure, and whether they escalate appropriately

A patient comes in agitated and possibly in a behavioral health crisis, and they start to become physically aggressive. What's your approach?

de-escalation skills and knowledge of safety protocols for behavioral health patients in a non-psych ED