Job Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN Med Surg for a travel nursing job in Pocatello, Idaho.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Med Surg
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 10/05/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, days, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
Registered Nurse (RN) – Med/Surg | Travel Contract
Job Location: Pocatello, ID 83201
Facility Type: Acute Care
Position: Med/Surg RN
Shift: Nights | 7:00 PM – 7:00 AM
Schedule: 3x12 Hours
Patient Ratio: 1:6
Charting: Epic
Position Overview
Prime Staffing is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse (RN) for a Med/Surg travel assignment in Pocatello, Idaho. The ideal candidate should have at least 2 years of nursing experience, strong Med/Surg skills, and experience caring for medically complex adult and geriatric patients.
Requirements
- 2 years of experience preferred
- Previous travel experience preferred
- BLS — required
- Epic experience — required
- Experience with a 1:6 patient ratio
- Teaching hospital experience — preferred
- Trauma Level II experience — preferred
- Must be comfortable working nights, weekends, and holidays
Clinical Skills & Experience
IV Therapy / Phlebotomy
- Accessing and managing ports
- Blood product administration
- Central line blood draws
- Peripheral line care and management
- Phlebotomy
- PICC line management
- Starting and maintaining IVs
Respiratory
- BiPAP / CPAP management
- Chest tubes – Emerson/PleurEvac
- High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)
- ABG interpretation
- Nasal cannula
- Non-invasive airway management
- Oral suctioning
- Oxygen administration
- Oxygen tanks
- Pre/Post thoracic surgery
- Tracheostomy care and management
Gastrointestinal
- Bowel obstruction
- Colostomy / ileostomy care
- Feeding tube care and management
Genitourinary / Renal
- Continuous Bladder Irrigation (CBI)
- Pre/Post hemodialysis management
- Renal failure
Neurological / Psychiatric
- CVA / Stroke
- Pre/Post neurosurgery
- Spinal cord injury
- Substance withdrawal
- Traumatic brain injury
Medications
- Heparin
- Insulin
- PCA
Additional Clinical Skills
- Isolation precautions / PPE
- Wound care / Wound VAC
- Rapid Response / Code Team utilization
Work Settings & Specialties
- Med/Surg
- MS/Telemetry
- Orthopedic Trauma
- Total Joint Replacement
- Post-Angiogram
- Post-MI
- Surgical Drains
- Thyroidectomy
- Cardiac Monitoring
- Emergency Response
Patient Population & Diagnoses
Experience caring for patients with:
- Sepsis
- CIWA / substance withdrawal
- Confusion / Altered Mental Status
- COPD
- Post-operative conditions
- Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
- Trauma
- Respiratory Failure
- Bowel Obstruction
- Pyelonephritis
- Cardiac Conditions
- Diabetes
- GI Conditions
- Isolation
- SI with medical indications
Patient Population: Adults & Geriatrics
Schedule & Staffing
- Shift: 7:00 PM – 7:00 AM
- Schedule: 3x12 Nights
- Patient Ratio: 1:6
- Weekend: Every other weekend
- Weekend Requirement: Approximately 2 weekend shifts per pay period, flexible according to department needs
- Float: Yes, based on competencies
- Call: No call requirement specified
- Block Schedule: No
Facility Support
Interdisciplinary support includes:
- IV Teams
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Services
- Interpretation Services
- Phlebotomy
- Radiology
- Social Services
- Rapid Response Teams
- Pharmacy
- Transportation
Important
This position requires an RN who is comfortable caring for a 1:6 adult/geriatric patient assignment in a busy Med/Surg environment and who can float based on demonstrated competencies. Candidates should be prepared to work every other weekend and support the department's scheduling needs.
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About Prime Staffing
At Prime Staffing, we understand the importance of finding the perfect fit for both our clients and candidates. Prime Staffing utilizes a unique matchmaking approach, providing the most qualified contingent staffing to our clients, and the most competitive contracts to our workforce. Our experienced team takes the time to get to know both our clients and candidates, their needs, and preferences, to ensure that each placement is a success.
We offer a wide range of staffing services including temporary, temp-to-perm, and direct hire placements. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Pocatello, ID |
| Industry | All |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.primestaffingnyc.com/ |
About Company
Prime Staffing is one of New York's leading staffing firms specializing in temporary and full-time/permanent placements across multiple industries including; healthcare, business, consulting, finance, legal services, entertainment, media, information Technology(IT) and retail.
Prime Staffing is certified by The Joint Commission for its compliance, and integrity, in supplying superior healthcare staffing services to many of the finest healthcare organizations in the country. In addition to its impeccable reputation for providing travel and per diem health care staffing, Prime has become an integral partner in staffing some of the most prestigious business organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the country including multi-national bank and investment firms, international business consulting firms, global law firms and some of the most prominent media and entertainment outlets.
Prime's success and rapid growth is direct result if its most basic founding principle-provide our clients with the most experienced and qualified employees and, likewise, provide our employees with the best jobs at the top organizations in their respective professional disciplines.
Prime Staffing is a high-energy company with a corporate culture that embraces innovation, new technology and personalized customer service. We are confident in our ability to serve you professionally by placing esteemed and experienced individuals. Our continuous expansions enables us to adapt to the continuously changing needs of our clients and employees. Through our team of seasoned professionals we maintain respect, integrity and superiority in all aspects of our business.
At Prime, we work diligently to recognize your objectives and create programs to meet them. We believe that ardent customer service is an essential component to remaining at the forefront of a competitive marketplace. Prime utilizes its expertise, and decades of combined experience in the industry, to continuously improve, implement cutting-edge programs and maintaining our position in the market as one of the fastest growing firms in the Tri-State area.
It is our goal to build long-term relationships with clients and employees based on a foundation of trust, mutual respect and our expertise in the field of staffing. We guarantee dependability, consistency and security in all aspects of operation. Prime Staffing is the Superior Staffing Solution.
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