Emergency Room Nurse

U.S. Army Emergency Care Nurses are valuable members of a medical team that saves lives during the most critical moments.

Ensure all your application information is up to date and in order before applying for this opportunity.

If you are a professional in the emergency nursing field and want to combine your passion for patient care with a desire to serve our nation’s heroes, a career as an Army Emergency Nurse could be the one for you.

Outstanding Opportunities:

As an Emergency Room/Trauma Nurse in the U.S. Army, you will be the first line of care for Soldiers and their families. You will operate in locations along the continuum of care from forward-based units through fixed facilities for combat missions, humanitarian missions, other contingency operations, and peacetime. You’ll train to be proficient in critical care trauma nursing and possess the knowledge and skills to perform a wide variety of critical health tasks. Such tasks may include enroute care, medical-surgical nursing skills providing ambulatory, inpatient, and patient hold capability. The scope of being an Army Emergency Nurse involves the assessment, analysis, nursing diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, intervention, and evaluation of human responses to potential or actual physical or psychosocial problems, episodic or acute, and which occur in a variety of settings. You will also interact with and care for individuals, families, groups and communities. In the Army, your practice will be independent and collaborative in nature. The practice of emergency nursing also includes the delivery of compassionate, competent care to consumers through education, research and consultation with expert emergency nurses serving as role models for the specialty. Through the Army, you will be able to attend trainings, continued education courses, seminars, and conferences to ensure that you are aware of and capable of using current, best practices.

If you choose to join the Army Reserve, you will be able to serve your country as needed while still supporting your community.

Regardless of serving Active duty or Army Reserve, a career as an Army Emergency Care Nurse allows you to serve the Army in critical ways.

Sign-on Bonus

$30k - 3 years

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$50k - 4 years

Outstanding Benefits

Monthly housing allowance

Monthly food allowance

Repayment of qualified education loans to lending institutions

Travel opportunities, to include humanitarian missions

30 days of paid vacation earned annually, three or four-day weekends for Federal Holidays

Enrollment into the Uniformed Services Blended Retirement System

100% medical coverage

Commissary and post exchange shopping privileges

Specialized leadership training

Retention bonuses

Eligibility Requirements

Must have a bachelor’s degree in nursing accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) or accepted by the National League of Nursing (NLN) (if older degree)

Must hold a RN current, valid, active and unrestricted license to practice nursing

Must have Basic Life Support (BLS)

Must have Certified Emergency Room Nurse (CEN)

Must have minimum one-year experience in Emergency Room / Trauma nursing

Preferred certifications:

TNCC, ABLS, PALS, ENPC

Have questions or want more information?

To find out more information about becoming an Emergency Care Nurse reach out to your local Nate Fleshman at 8 to learn how you can get started on your journey as an Army Emergency Nurse.