Emergency Room RN Jobs in California
Emergency Room RN jobs in California represent one of the most active nursing markets in the country, with consistent demand at every level from new graduate to senior charge nurse, concentrated in Level I and Level II trauma centers, large academic medical centers, and integrated health systems. The highest volume of openings is in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and San Diego, where employers like Kaiser Permanente, Dignity Health, and UCLA Health have deep, ongoing hiring needs. The most in-demand specialties within emergency nursing in California are critical care triage, pediatric emergency, and trauma nursing. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Essential Responsibilities:
- The Registered Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:
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Leadership:
- Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.
- Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks appropriately, and demonstrates appropriate accountability.
- Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates issues as appropriate.
- Demonstrates professional, supportive behavior.
- Champions new ideas.
- Leads and directs others through the change process.
- Utilizes communication strategies including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
- Participates in problem identification and resolution.
- Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit specific operations and patient care activities
- Shares responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her accountable for performance.
- Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
- Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
- Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
- Nursing Process:
- Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
- Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary planning, consultation, and education.
- Ensures plan is reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings, age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate acuity.
- Ensures plan is discussed with patient, family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner.
- Monitors the patients progress based on the plan.
- Revises plan on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of progress.
- Ensures care meets standards of practice.
- Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan including discharge barriers and patient/family education.
- Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management plan.
- Ensures patient safety related but not limited to, medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial infections.
- Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort; identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge.
- Ensures that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time of discharge.
- Patient Care Experience:
- Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
- Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
- Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
- Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
- Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
- Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
- Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
- Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
- Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
- Patient Care Experience:
- Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
- Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
- Makes appropriate referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize resources.
- Maintains and protects patient confidentiality
- Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
- Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness and compassion.
- Provides an optimal patient care experience by actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs.
- Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures comprehension.
- Provides a patient care experience that exceeds members expectations.
- Team Commitment:
- Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
- Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
- Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
- Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and ther team members.
- Attends all mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required, actively participates in other departmental professional development. (Requirement may vary for per diem staff).
- Participates with the assessment of current and future unit learning needs and development of an annual education plan.
- Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes recommendations for change.
- Adheres to Attendance Program. Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available for report at beginning of assigned shift.
- Supports a collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit based teams.
- Fiscal Responsibility:
- Organizes work to minimize the use of overtime.
- Identifies and assists in systems improvement that needs simplification or correction.
- Utilizes payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential.
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Leadership:
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum six (6) months recent (within last 5 years) full-time equivalent experience in ED or Critical Care of successful completion of a KP ED training program or approved equivalent wihtin prior 12 months.
- If an inexperienced RN is being considered, and appropriate KP training program is available, will consider the following: RN/IPs - new graduates and experienced RNs not meeting above requirements: Applicant must be a graduate of a BRN approved RN program and have completed 768 hours of supervised RN student clinical training.
- Applicants will be required to successfully complete a Kaiser Permanente Nursing Orientation Program.
- IP applicants must receive RN license within 3 months of hire
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Pediatric Advanced Life Support
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Notes:
- If twelve (12) hour option chosen; shift will be 7:30 pm to 8:00 am. Back up 8-hour shift will be 11:30 pm to 8:00 am.
PrimaryLocation : California,Los Angeles,Los Angeles Medical Center
HoursPerWeek : 1
Shift : Night
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
WorkingHoursStart : 07:30 PM
WorkingHoursEnd : 08:00 AM
Job Schedule : Per Diem
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B13|AFSCME|UNAC
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
Department : Sunset Medical Center - Emergency-Day - 0806
Travel : No
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
- Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.
- Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.
- Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.
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What California Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in emergency room RN jobs across California.
- Active Registered Nurse license issued or recognized by the California Board of Registered Nursing
- Current BLS and ACLS certification required for all emergency department positions
- Minimum one to two years of acute care or emergency nursing experience preferred
- Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course or Trauma Nursing Core Course certification often required
- Ability to work rotating shifts including nights, weekends, and holidays in a high-volume ED
- Strong triage assessment skills and familiarity with electronic health record systems like Epic
Emergency Room RN Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a emergency room rn in California?
To become an emergency room rn in California, you must hold an active Registered Nurse license issued by the California Board of Registered Nursing, which requires completing an accredited ADN or BSN program and passing the NCLEX-RN exam. Most California emergency departments also require or strongly prefer BLS and ACLS certification before your first shift, and many favor candidates who have completed a trauma nursing course.
How much do emergency room RNs make in California?
Emergency room RNs in California earn a median of about $140,270 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $101,260 for the lowest 10% to over $213,320 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire emergency room rns in California?
Employers hiring emergency room rns in California right now include Kaiser Permanente, White Glove Placement, and Voyage Health, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. California's large integrated health systems and academic medical centers maintain some of the highest ED volumes in the country, which drives continuous and year-round hiring across the state.
Which California cities have the most emergency room rn jobs?
The California cities with the most emergency room rn openings are Los Angeles, Santa Ana, and Arcadia. Los Angeles and the Bay Area drive the largest share of demand because of their dense populations and the concentration of major hospital systems and Level I trauma centers, while San Diego's volume reflects a strong military and academic medical presence that sustains consistent ED staffing needs.
Are there remote emergency room rn jobs in California?
Yes, but they're rare. Emergency room nursing is an inherently hands-on, bedside role that cannot be performed remotely in its core clinical capacity. About 0% of emergency room rn openings tied to California are remote or hybrid as of October 2026, and those positions are almost exclusively in adjacent areas like telephonic triage nursing, case management, or ED staff education and training.
How can I get hired as a emergency room rn in California with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is applying to new graduate nurse residency programs, which many large California health systems run specifically for RNs without acute care experience. Kaiser Permanente, Dignity Health, and UCSF Health all operate structured residency or transition-to-practice programs that place new grads into emergency and acute care settings. Candidates coming from medical-surgical, telemetry, or urgent care roles have a strong lateral path into the ED, and holding your TNCC or ENPC certification before applying gives your application a measurable edge over other new-to-emergency candidates.
Where can I find and apply to emergency room rn jobs in California?
You can find and apply to emergency room rn jobs in California on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings at California employers across the state. Find a role that fits your experience and location, then apply directly.
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