You’ll need
Certifications
✓BLS, ACLS, NIHSS
Qualifications
✓EPIC experience
✓IV Medication Titration, Cardiac rhythm interpretation, bipap management, ostomy, general drains, traches, chest tubes, lumbar drains
✓Charge RN without patient assignment
✓Hospitalist 24/7
✓Cardiac and specialty MDs on call 24/7
✓EMR: EPIC - required
✓IV Pump: Alaris
✓Med dispensing: Pyxis
✓Floating: If yes, where?
✓PCU, Tele, MedSurg, ER Holding
✓Anywhere in this hospital or in Allenmore that have these patients
TR Bands experience (preferred)
Benefits
Flexible scheduling
New Washington Med/Surg RN contracts paying $2,650+/wk
Weekly. Verified links and pay changes. No account.
Full employer posting
- CLINICAL INTERVIEWING - MGR MAKES FINAL APPROVAL
- Unit Information:
- Beds: Float Pool position will float within scope of practice and below within the hospital (PCU, Tele, MedSurg, ER Holding, etc.)
- For TG Float Pool, traveler could also float Allenmore hospital (2.5 miles away) to care for patients within scope of practice
- Minimum Years of Experience required? 1 year minimum
- Will you accept a first-time traveler? Yes, with strong PCU/Tele and previous float pool experience
- Patient Types/Common Diagnoses:
- Most common unit you will be on is ED Holding. This is not considered your home unit, but it is a unit where you should expect to spend most of your contract. You will float to inpatient PCU area but will likely spend most of your shifts working in the ED Holding area
- Neuro, Trauma, Surgical, Medical, etc. Respiratory compromise, sepsis, renal failure, bleeding disorders, general medical and surgical, CHF, COPD, pneumonia, ortho, strokes
- CCU (Cardiac Stepdown), Cardiac Short Stay (Cardiac Obs) - 24h post CABG/TAVRs (experience required), STEMIs, fem-pops, pacemakers, ablations, chest pain obs, post-cath, TR bands
- Patient Ratios:
- PCU: 1:4
- MedSurg: 1:5-6
- Required License, National Certification, Certs
- BLS, ACLS, NIHSS
- Skills required:
- IV Medication Titration, Cardiac rhythm interpretation, bipap management, ostomy, general drains, traches, chest tubes, lumbar drains; TR Bands experience (preferred)
- EPIC experience
- Support within the Department:
- CNA
- Charge RN without patient assignment
- Hospitalist 24/7
- RT 24/7
- Cardiac and specialty MDs on call 24/7
- Technology/Equipment:
- EMR: EPIC - required
- IV Pump: Alaris
- Med dispensing: Pyxis
- Floating: If yes, where?
- PCU, Tele, MedSurg, ER Holding. Anywhere in this hospital or in Allenmore that have these patients.
- Traveler could float to Allenmore Hospital as needed, around 2.5 miles away. This is not common but is possible. Travelers should be notified in advance if they are needed at Allenmore.
- Orientation (facility and unit):
- 1-day general hospital orientation
- 1 day of unit orientation (12 hours) on PCU unit
- 1 day of light unit orientation
- Traveler Telemetry Competency Required
- Scheduling:
- Weekend rotation: every other, but could work some back-to-back weekends (rare)
- On call? No
- Holiday Expectations:
- RTO: Ok to approve up to 5 days
- Shift times: 0700-1930 or 1900-0730
- Schedule cycle: scheduled is made in 3-week increments, traveler will receive 7-10 days prior to schedule beginning
- No self-scheduling, no guarantee of patterned schedule
- Other notes:
- Scrub Color: Any solid color, professional
- Parking: Free, parking garage
- Must fill out whiteboards, do and document rounding, give bedside report
- Saline Flushes considered medication. Do not leave at the bedside or in your scrub pocket
- Do not leave medications in unlocked cart.
- When wasting medications, two-nurse verification is required. (Narcotics, Benzodiazepine, etc.)
- Documenting pain before and after giving pain medication (30 minutes for IV, 1 hour for oral
- Breaks are required