Clinical Registered Nurse Jobs
Clinical Registered Nurse jobs are open across hospitals, health systems, long-term care, and outpatient clinics, from new-grad to charge nurse and nurse manager, with specializations in critical care, medical-surgical, and emergency nursing. Find a role that fits from the openings below and apply directly.
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INTRODUCTION
The Clinical Registered Nurse (RN) II is responsible for managing individualized patient care by promoting and restoring patients' health in accordance with medical and nursing plans of care and established policies and procedures. The Clinical RN II collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members in the development, execution, and evaluation of the multidisciplinary plan of care. The RN assumes a full patient assignment and can plan, analyze, intervene and set goals for patient care accordingly. This nurse provides nursing services to patients and families in accordance with the scope of the RN as defined by the Virginia Board of Nursing. This RN maintains a safe care environment for their patients (clients) and delivers quality care.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Assessment
- Conducts an individualized patient assessment, prioritizing the data collection based on the patient’s immediate condition or needs within timeframe specified by policies, procedures, or protocols.
- Conducts ongoing assessments as determined by patient’s condition and/or the policies, procedures or protocols and reprioritizes care accordingly.
- Integrates nursing interventions into the multidisciplinary plan of care, incorporating appropriate standards of care and practice and patient outcomes.
Planning
- Develops, modifies, and integrates an individualized care plan which incorporates the medical plan of care, key elements from the plans of other disciplines, and standards of care and practice.
- Establishes individualized, measurable patient goals in consultation with the patient, family, and health care team.
Intervention
- Performs appropriate treatments as ordered by provider in an accurate and timely manner.
- Performs therapeutic nursing interventions as established by individualized plan of care for the patient and his/her family.
- Recognizes potential problems and responds to general information/data indicating urgent and/or emergent risk to the patient.
- Initiates emergency resuscitative measures as appropriate.
- Assumes responsibility and accountability for effectively managing the care of a specialty patient population.
- Provides care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is culturally sensitive to the patient and family, preserving their autonomy, dignity, and rights.
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members to ensure patient care interventions are appropriate.
Evaluation
- Evaluates patient’s responses to care based on effectiveness of nursing interventions/actions in relationship to established goals.
- Initiates changes in the interdisciplinary care plan based on this evaluation. Problem solves with the specialty team to improve patient outcomes.
- Documents patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing intervention and progress towards problem resolution.
Patient Education
- Identifies learning needs of patients/families and teaches by adapting standard information based on needs.
- Ensures that the patient/family demonstrates knowledge, within the abilities of the patient.
- Communicates with patients and family to identify their needs and include them in the plan of care.
- Acknowledges and supports determinations by the patient and/or family concerning treatment.
Self and Peer Learning
- Assumes responsibility for assessing and meeting own learning and professional development needs.
- Maintains current competency in nursing specialty and requirements for department; attends required educational programs and may attend additional educational workshops; reviews nursing professional publications; establishes personal networks; may participate in professional societies.
- Seeks additional educational opportunities for clinical development and is either ready to learn the charge nurse role or currently functioning in a charge nurse role.
Collaboration
- Makes sound judgments in the decisions involved in coordinating multiple, increasingly complex patient care demands.
- Supervises delegated care based on abilities of personnel and patient acuity.
- Reports changes in patient condition to appropriate personnel.
Service Recovery
- Participates in service recovery and uses appropriate resources during complex situations.
- Handles conflict resolution in an appropriate, timely and consistent manner.
Resource Utilization and Stewardship
- Supports organizational efforts regarding appropriate resource utilization (i.e. flexing during low census).
- Able to serve as a preceptor/mentor and works directly with employees to fulfill planned orientation to the department. May assist in the orientation, instruction, direction, and evaluation of students assigned to the unit.
- Able to be trained for a charge nurse role or is currently functioning in a charge nurse role.
Improvement Activities
- Participates in data collection for quality assurance activities if assigned by department leader.
- Identifies and communicates recurring practice concerns in specialty areas and their impact on care.
- Participates in initiatives resulting from nurse-sensitive, quality, and other specialty indicators and/or unit-based quality metrics.
- Demonstrates the utilization of Centra’s safety behaviors (i.e. Speak Up for Safety).
Research/Evidence Based Practice/Quality Improvement Projects
- May participate in Research or Evidence Based Practice projects.
- Able to communicate research and quality improvement data/findings to peers.
- Able to interpret quality improvement data relevant to the clinical specialty and communicate this data to peers.
- Contributes to development or implementation of methods to improve quality care in areas identified as deficient by quality improvement data studies.
Ethics
- Maintains confidentiality in matters as outlined in Centra policies.
- Delivers care in a manner that protects patient autonomy, dignity, and rights.
- Serves as a patient advocate.
- Maintains patient-nurse relationships with professional role boundaries.
Other duties as assigned.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Required Education: Diploma or Associate Degree in Nursing
Required License: Registration as a registered nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia and/or holds a compact license to practice in Virginia.
Required Certifications: Basic Life Support
Additional Specialty Requirements – Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Cath Lab/Electrophysiology
- Operating Room
- Critical Care (All)
- Endoscopy
- PACU
- Interventional Radiology
- Birth Center
- Centra Specialty Hospital
- Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery
- Plastic Surgery Registered Nurse
- Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery
Additional Specialty Requirements – Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- Pediatrics
Additional Specialty Requirements – Advanced and Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- Emergency Dept.
Required Experience / Skills: One Year of Nursing (RN) Experience.
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $31.05 - $48.13 / Hour
INTRODUCTION
The Clinical Registered Nurse (RN) II is responsible for managing individualized patient care by promoting and restoring patients' health in accordance with medical and nursing plans of care and established policies and procedures. The Clinical RN II collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members in the development, execution, and evaluation of the multidisciplinary plan of care. The RN assumes a full patient assignment and can plan, analyze, intervene and set goals for patient care accordingly. This nurse provides nursing services to patients and families in accordance with the scope of the RN as defined by the Virginia Board of Nursing. This RN maintains a safe care environment for their patients (clients) and delivers quality care.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Assessment
- Conducts an individualized patient assessment, prioritizing the data collection based on the patient’s immediate condition or needs within timeframe specified by policies, procedures, or protocols.
- Conducts ongoing assessments as determined by patient’s condition and/or the policies, procedures or protocols and reprioritizes care accordingly.
- Integrates nursing interventions into the multidisciplinary plan of care, incorporating appropriate standards of care and practice and patient outcomes.
Planning
- Develops, modifies, and integrates an individualized care plan which incorporates the medical plan of care, key elements from the plans of other disciplines, and standards of care and practice.
- Establishes individualized, measurable patient goals in consultation with the patient, family, and health care team.
Intervention
- Performs appropriate treatments as ordered by provider in an accurate and timely manner.
- Performs therapeutic nursing interventions as established by individualized plan of care for the patient and his/her family.
- Recognizes potential problems and responds to general information/data indicating urgent and/or emergent risk to the patient.
- Initiates emergency resuscitative measures as appropriate.
- Assumes responsibility and accountability for effectively managing the care of a specialty patient population.
- Provides care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is culturally sensitive to the patient and family, preserving their autonomy, dignity, and rights.
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members to ensure patient care interventions are appropriate.
Evaluation
- Evaluates patient’s responses to care based on effectiveness of nursing interventions/actions in relationship to established goals.
- Initiates changes in the interdisciplinary care plan based on this evaluation. Problem solves with the specialty team to improve patient outcomes.
- Documents patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing intervention and progress towards problem resolution.
Patient Education
- Identifies learning needs of patients/families and teaches by adapting standard information based on needs.
- Ensures that the patient/family demonstrates knowledge, within the abilities of the patient.
- Communicates with patients and family to identify their needs and include them in the plan of care.
- Acknowledges and supports determinations by the patient and/or family concerning treatment.
Self and Peer Learning
- Assumes responsibility for assessing and meeting own learning and professional development needs.
- Maintains current competency in nursing specialty and requirements for department; attends required educational programs and may attend additional educational workshops; reviews nursing professional publications; establishes personal networks; may participate in professional societies.
- Seeks additional educational opportunities for clinical development and is either ready to learn the charge nurse role or currently functioning in a charge nurse role.
Collaboration
- Makes sound judgments in the decisions involved in coordinating multiple, increasingly complex patient care demands.
- Supervises delegated care based on abilities of personnel and patient acuity.
- Reports changes in patient condition to appropriate personnel.
Service Recovery
- Participates in service recovery and uses appropriate resources during complex situations.
- Handles conflict resolution in an appropriate, timely and consistent manner.
Resource Utilization and Stewardship
- Supports organizational efforts regarding appropriate resource utilization (i.e. flexing during low census).
- Able to serve as a preceptor/mentor and works directly with employees to fulfill planned orientation to the department. May assist in the orientation, instruction, direction, and evaluation of students assigned to the unit.
- Able to be trained for a charge nurse role or is currently functioning in a charge nurse role.
Improvement Activities
- Participates in data collection for quality assurance activities if assigned by department leader.
- Identifies and communicates recurring practice concerns in specialty areas and their impact on care.
- Participates in initiatives resulting from nurse-sensitive, quality, and other specialty indicators and/or unit-based quality metrics.
- Demonstrates the utilization of Centra’s safety behaviors (i.e. Speak Up for Safety).
Research/Evidence Based Practice/Quality Improvement Projects
- May participate in Research or Evidence Based Practice projects.
- Able to communicate research and quality improvement data/findings to peers.
- Able to interpret quality improvement data relevant to the clinical specialty and communicate this data to peers.
- Contributes to development or implementation of methods to improve quality care in areas identified as deficient by quality improvement data studies.
Ethics
- Maintains confidentiality in matters as outlined in Centra policies.
- Delivers care in a manner that protects patient autonomy, dignity, and rights.
- Serves as a patient advocate.
- Maintains patient-nurse relationships with professional role boundaries.
Other duties as assigned.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Required Education: Diploma or Associate Degree in Nursing
Required License: Registration as a registered nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia and/or holds a compact license to practice in Virginia.
Required Certifications: Basic Life Support
Additional Specialty Requirements – Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Cath Lab/Electrophysiology
- Operating Room
- Critical Care (All)
- Endoscopy
- PACU
- Interventional Radiology
- Birth Center
- Centra Specialty Hospital
- Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery
- Plastic Surgery Registered Nurse
- Outpatient Ambulatory Surgery
Additional Specialty Requirements – Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- Pediatrics
Additional Specialty Requirements – Advanced and Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- Emergency Dept.
Required Experience / Skills: One Year of Nursing (RN) Experience.
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: $31.05 - $48.13 / Hour
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A snapshot from current openings nationwide, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Centra Health148
- Fresenius Medical Care124
- UNC Health108
- Ascension43
- MaineHealth33
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services1,080
- Education196
- Insurance33
- Science & Research32
- Technology & Software28
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in clinical registered nurse jobs.
- Active RN licensure in the state of employment or compact license eligibility
- Current BLS and ACLS certification from an approved provider
- Associate or bachelor's degree in nursing from an accredited program
- Minimum one to two years of clinical nursing experience in an acute care setting
- Proficiency with electronic health record systems such as Epic or Cerner
- Strong clinical assessment skills and experience with patient care documentation
Tips for Your Clinical Registered Nurse Job Search
Tailor your resume to unit type
Hiring managers scan for the specific unit you've worked in, not just RN experience. If you're applying to an ICU role, lead with critical care hours, ventilator management, and drip titration rather than listing every ward rotation you've completed.
List every active certification you hold
BLS and ACLS are baseline expectations for most clinical registered nurse roles. Certifications like CCRN, CEN, or PCCN signal specialty competence and often appear as preferred qualifications in postings, so include them with expiration dates in a dedicated credentials section.
Filter openings by shift and unit type
Night and weekend differentials vary significantly across facilities, and unit culture differs just as much. Narrow your search by shift length and unit type early so you're not spending time applying to roles where the schedule or acuity level won't work for you.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists clinical registered nurse openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare for clinical scenario questions
Interviewers for clinical registered nurse positions often use situation-based questions tied to patient deterioration, medication errors, or team conflict. Practice walking through a specific patient scenario using SBAR format so your answers are structured and easy for the panel to evaluate.
Negotiate start date and unit assignment
Once you have an offer, the unit assignment and start date are often more negotiable than base pay. If you have a preferred specialty or need time between jobs, ask directly during the offer call before HR processes the paperwork.
Clinical Registered Nurse Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most clinical registered nurses?
The companies hiring the most clinical registered nurses right now include Centra Health, Fresenius Medical Care, and UNC Health, with the largest share of openings in Virginia, North Carolina, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Health systems and large hospital networks consistently account for the majority of active postings across the country.
How many clinical registered nurse jobs are remote?
About 5% of clinical registered nurse openings are fully remote or hybrid as of June 2026, which is lower than many other healthcare roles given the hands-on nature of bedside care. Sub-specialties with the most remote availability include case management, utilization review, and telephone triage nursing.
How do you become a clinical registered nurse?
You become a clinical registered nurse by completing an accredited nursing program, either an Associate Degree in Nursing or a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, then passing the NCLEX-RN licensure exam. After passing, you apply for licensure in your state, complete any required background checks, and begin clinical practice in a hospital or healthcare setting.
Can you get hired as a clinical registered nurse with little experience?
Yes, many hospitals hire new graduate clinical registered nurses into structured residency or internship programs designed for candidates with limited post-licensure experience. Applying to these programs directly, highlighting clinical hours from your nursing program, and targeting medical-surgical or general inpatient units gives you the strongest starting point when you're early in your career.
What does the clinical registered nurse interview process look like?
The clinical registered nurse interview process typically starts with a phone or video screen with HR, followed by a panel interview with the nurse manager and one or two staff nurses from the unit. You'll be asked clinical scenario and behavioral questions, and some facilities include a skills assessment or unit tour before extending an offer.
Where can I find and apply to clinical registered nurse jobs?
You can find and apply to clinical registered nurse jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from hospitals, health systems, and outpatient facilities across the United States. Find roles that match your specialty, experience level, and preferred location, then apply directly to each listing from the page.
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