Job Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN Stepdown for a travel nursing job in Castro Valley, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Stepdown
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
We are seeking an experienced Acute Care RN to provide nursing care on a combination Neuro Stepdown and Telemetry unit. The RN will care for patients requiring increased monitoring and clinical assessment, including neurological and cardiac monitoring.
The ideal candidate will have recent Stepdown or Telemetry experience and be comfortable managing a patient assignment of approximately 1:3–5, depending on patient acuity.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive nursing care to patients on a Neuro Stepdown/Telemetry unit.
- Perform frequent neurological assessments and monitor for changes in patient condition.
- Perform and document NIHSS assessments as required.
- Monitor telemetry and recognize/report significant cardiac rhythm changes.
- Administer medications, IV therapies, and other treatments as ordered.
- Monitor vital signs, neurological status, cardiac status, and overall patient condition.
- Recognize signs of neurological deterioration and promptly communicate changes to the appropriate provider.
- Maintain seizure, fall, aspiration, and other appropriate patient-safety precautions.
- Collaborate with physicians and the interdisciplinary healthcare team.
- Educate patients and families regarding treatment, medications, safety, and recovery.
- Accurately document assessments, interventions, and patient responses in the medical record.
- Escalate care appropriately when a patient's condition changes.
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years of RN experience.
- Recent experience in Stepdown or Telemetry required.
- Acute Care RN experience required.
- Experience caring for patients in a combined Stepdown/Telemetry environment preferred.
- Previous travel nursing experience preferred.
- Active California RN License.
- BLS certification.
- ACLS certification.
- NIHSS certification.
Schedule & Assignment Expectations
- Patient ratio: approximately 1:3–5, based on acuity.
- Every other weekend requirement.
- On-call as needed.
- Travelers must be flexible with their availability.
- Holiday RTO will not be approved.
- 2-day RTO requests will not be approved.
experienced Acute Care RN with recent Stepdown and/or Telemetry experience, strong neuro assessment skills, telemetry knowledge.
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 | Castro Valley, CA |
| 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.
Skills
- Acute Careunmatched
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)unmatched
- Basic Life Support (BLS)unmatched
- Cardiac Monitoringunmatched
- Cardiologyunmatched
- Clinical Assessmentunmatched
- Clinical Monitoringunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Intravenous Therapiesunmatched
- Medical Recordsunmatched
- Medication Administrationunmatched
- Medicationsunmatched
- Neurologyunmatched
- Nursingunmatched
- On Callunmatched
- Patient Assessmentunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- Patient Educationunmatched
- Patient Safetyunmatched
- Registered Nurse (RN)unmatched
- Registered Training Organisation (RTO)unmatched
- Telemetryunmatched
- Telemetry Nursingunmatched
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