Shift: 12-hour nights Schedule: 48 hours/week Contract: 13 weeks Unit Size: 32 beds, all private rooms Patient Ratio: 1:3–4 Setting: Inpatient Acute Care EMR: Epic BSN: Not required Guaranteed Hours: 48 hours/week
Position Details
Care for patients with complex medical, cardiac, respiratory, neurological, and surgical conditions.
Common diagnoses include COPD, CHF, diabetes, sepsis, DKA, renal disease, alcohol withdrawal, overdoses, and pneumonia.
Experience caring for patients requiring BiPAP, CPAP, tracheostomies, chest tubes, NG tubes, PICC lines, central lines, dialysis, and post-cath lab/ablation care.
Must be comfortable reading telemetry and managing chest tubes.
Medication dispensing system: Pyxis.
Orientation: 1 day with the education team and 1 day on the unit.
Scrubs: Any color.
Rotating nights, weekends, and holidays.
Requirements
Active RN license; facility is willing to wait for licensure.
BLS (AHA) required.
ACLS (AHA) required.
NIHSS required.
Strong telemetry interpretation skills.
Chest tube management experience.
Ability to care for complex medical-surgical patients.
Floating Requirements
Travel RNs are first to float.
May float to ICU if they have extensive ICU experience; otherwise, they may float to general medical floors.
Assignments depend on the level of care:
ICU: approximately 1:2.
General Medicine: approximately 1:5–6.
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