RN - Trauma Observation - San Diego - Days

This is a full time 12-hour DAY shift position located at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego.

Elevate your career with Scripps Health, where Compassion Meets Excellence. 

Invest, Empower & Belong. At Scripps Health, your potential is limitless. We're more than a healthcare provider, at Scripps you will join a community where your views, beliefs and values are celebrated. Grow through industry-leading development programs and empower yourself to deliver innovative care. Be a part of an extraordinary team, impacting health in beautiful San Diego.

Why join Scripps Health?

 AWARD-WINNING WORKPLACE:

 At Scripps Health, your ambition is empowered, and your abilities are appreciated:

• Nearly a quarter of our employees have been with Scripps Health for over 10 years.
• Scripps is a Great Place to Work Certified company for 2025.
• Scripps Health has been consistently ranked as a top employer for women, millennials, diversity, and as an overall workplace by various national publications.
• Beckers Healthcare ranked Scripps Health on its 2026 list of 150 top places to work in health care.
• We have transitional and professional development programs to create a learning environment that enables you to thrive in your specific field as well as in your overall career.
• Our specialties have been nationally recognized for quality in areas such as cardiovascular care, oncology, orthopedics, geriatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and gastroenterology.

The Scripps Health mission is to deliver quality, safe, cost effective, socially responsible health care that makes a difference in the San Diego community.  Scripps Mercy Hospital has served central and downtown San Diego since 1890. 

The Conrad Prebys Emergency and Trauma Center at Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego is a Level I center verified by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. Scripps Mercy Hospital has a dedicated trauma floor with an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), telemetry and medical/surgical bed capability. Experts from all disciplines come together as a team to provide immediate, comprehensive and compassionate care. We collaborate with specialists every step of the way, from the scene of the injury through hospital care, discharge, follow-up care and rehabilitation.

We see a wide variety of patients on the Trauma Observation Unit.  Our focus are trauma patients that come in via our Trauma activation system or those patients that come in through the ED that require a trauma consult.  Some mechanisms of injury include but not limited to:  MVC, MCC, gun shots, stab wounds, peds vs auto, falls on blood thinners, etc.  Our Trauma Attendings also do general surgery and vascular surgeries, and we will take those patients as well on the Trauma Observation unit.  In addition to the trauma patients, we are also one of the designated units that take care of our Head & Neck surgery patients.  These patients can be same day surgery, one night stay patients, or they can have extensive flaps, drains, and can be trached that require a longer stay. 

Scripps Health provides what matters most: career growth, delivering superior care to our patients, continuous learning, exceptional benefits and working for an organization that offers many long-term career paths. Join us and experience a culture where opportunities to advance and the suppor