Unit Notes
12/7 START DATE ONLY. ONLY ORIENTATION IN DECEMBER.
Candidates will do a clinical prescreen interview then be presented to the unit manager.
- Unit: MedSurg/Tele Float Pool
- # beds:
- Certs: BLS, ACLS, NIHSS-Must be able to read and interpret strips- prefers basic arrhythmia course certification
- Ratios:
- EMR: Cerner power chart
- Charge Nurse: Yes-doesn t typically take patients
- Nurse Aides: Yes unless pulled for sitters, 1:8-1:36 ratio depending on staffing
- Weekend Requirement: Every other weekend
- Holidays: Will rotate into perm staff rotation-expected to work holidays
- Scrub Color: RN- blue
- Tele: Must be able to read and interpret strips
- Nurse's Read Strips: must be able to read and interpret strips
- Drips:
- Vents: Bipap and CPAP
- Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: Yes- Sound physician hospitalist
- IV Team: None
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: Yes, 24/7
- Shifts: 0645-1915/1845-0715
- Floating: Yes to -must be able to float to tele/read interpret strips
- Floor specific orientation: 1 hr of orientation to show where stuff is- will not get a day of orientation on MS, will get a day of tele orientation- the highest level of care the nurse will work in
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: ESRD, DM, COPD, ETOH