Unit Notes
12/7 START DATE ONLY. ONLY ORIENTATION IN DECEMBER
- Unit: ER
- Fast track: Yes- fast track is ran out of a separate area, typically travelers will be in main ER.
- # beds/trauma bays: 24 beds, 0 trauma bays
- # Psych/seclusion rooms: Does have a private room if needed depending on behavior, otherwise have an overflow room where 4 patients can sit together
- Requirements: Minimum 2 years experience, trauma experience preferred, okay with first time travelers
- Certs: ACLS, BLS, NIHSS, PALS
- # Patients per day: 250 visits per day
- Ratios: 2:1/4:1
- EMR: Cerner power chart
- Charge Nurse: Yes- doesn't take patients
- Nurse Aides/Paramedics: ER techs to help with tech duties
- Security/Patient sitters: ER techs
- Weekend Requirement: Every other weekend, Fri, Sat, Sun is counted as the weekend, could be every weekend depending on staffing
- Holidays: Yes- will work them into perm staff rotation- mostly needed on holidays, so expect to work the holidays.
- Scrub Color: RN- Blue, Techs- Green
- Tele/Monitor Techs: 22 monitors hardwired- Client, In room and at nurses station
- Vents: Yes- RT typically maintains
- ED Physicans/Mid-Levels: Yes- Have MD, PA, NP
- Lab Draws: Have phlebotomists that will draw unless central line.
- IV Team: None
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: Yes 24 hrs
- Shifts: 12 hr shifts- 0645-1915/1845-0715, 9a,12p, 3p (day shift is considered 7a,9a,12p, night shift 3p,7p) -must be flexible
- Floating: None
- Floor specific orientation: 1 day of orientation on floor
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: STEMI receiving facility, Cardiac, Sepsis, ETOH, Stroke, DKA, all types of patients
- Additional Notes: They break care into 3 parts: fast track, treat and anticipate disposition, and acute care. no InPatient Pediatric nor BH unit