Emergency Department Registered Nurse (RN) Bridge Training Program

Are you looking for an opportunity to train to Emergency Nursing?

MedStar Georgetown is excited to offer a Critical Care Training Fellowship and Emergency Nursing Bridge Program with upcoming start dates on July 27, 2026 and October 19, 2026! This three-month fellowship includes the following elements:

• Personalized orientation schedule
• One-on-one preceptorship
• Essentials of Critical Care Orientation (American Association of Critical Care Nurses)
• American Heart Association certifications, as needed (ACLS)
• Specialty Content classes

Now is the perfect time to come join our outstanding Emergency Department team at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital!

• State-of-the-Art Facilities: The Verstandig Pavilion is equipped with all-private inpatient rooms and the latest medical technology, ensuring an optimal environment for both patients and healthcare professionals.
• Modernized Emergency Department: Our recently expanded and modernized ED includes a fast-track area, separate ambulance entrance, and private treatment/exam rooms, facilitating efficient and high-quality patient care.
• Rooftop Helipad: Direct access to our ICUs and ED via a rooftop helipad, allowing for swift and seamless patient transfers.

• Reputation: Regional & National recognition, advanced technology, and leading medical innovations. Awarded the first ANCC Well-Being Excellence credential. Magnet Designation. We are proud to be among the 2% of hospitals to have received Magnet designation five or more times.

Our Emergency Department is staffed and equipped to care for over 40,000 patients a year ranging from newborn to end of life. Our metropolitan ED provides high quality care to a wide variety of patients, including adult and pediatric patients from the MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute and the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Additionally, MedStar Georgetown is accredited by the Joint Commission as a Comprehensive Stroke Center and receives acute stroke patients from all around the DC region. All the nurses in the Emergency Department are certified in BLS, ACLS, PALS, and are NIH Stroke Certified and many also have their CEN, TNCC, and ENPC certifications. ED Nursing Leadership supports and encourages nurses to enhance their educational expertise and professional development. MedStar Georgetown's Emergency Department prides itself on its teamwork, collaborative governance and decision making which creates and implements new ideas centered on evidenced based practice.

Key Responsibilities

As a Clinical Nurse, you will provide skilled, compassionate care to patients and families across a spectrum of needs-from routine to highly complex. You will assess evolving patient conditions, identify actual and potential health concerns, and develop appropriate care plans. Interventions may be delivered directly or coordinated through collaboration with other members of the nursing team.

Nursing Benefits

• Nationally recognized nurse wellbeing resources
• Comprehensive health benefit plans
• Generous paid time off and flex scheduling options
• Retirement plans with match
• Tuition assistance to advance your education
• Systemwide referral bonus program-up to $6,000 for each RN and up to $4,000 for each LPN that joins MedStar Health
• Relocation assistance up to $5,000
• Free parking for associates

Qualifications

• ADN, BSN, MSN, or CNL from an accredited School of Nursing required. BSN Preferred.
• At least one year of hospital-based RN experience required.
• Active DC RN License and Basic Life Support for Healthcare providers required (AHA or American Red Cross).