Travel Nurse (RN) - Progressive Care Unit

Pre-employment modules may be required for this role. Please upload any certifications or health documents you have to your profile to expedite your on-boarding process.

Additional Details:

13-16 weeks assignment

Required Skills/Experience:

Required Skills

IV Therapy/Phlebotomy: Accessing/Managing Ports, Blood Product Administration, Central line care/management, Peripheral Line Care/Management, PICC line management, Starting and maintaining IVs

Oncology: None listed as required

Respiratory: Chest tubes – Emerson/PleurEvac, External CPAP/BiPAP, High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC), Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs), Nasal Cannula, Tracheostomy care/management

Gastrointestinal: Feeding tube care and management

Medications: Heparin Protocols, Manage Cardiac drips – no titration, PCA, Titrate Cardiac drips

Cardiac Monitoring and Emergency Response: Interpretation of dysrhythmias, Telemetry – on the unit monitoring, Use of Rapid Response/Code teams

Professional Topics and Skills: Isolation Precautions

Work Settings: PCU, DOU, IMC, Stepdown, Telemetry

Additional Skills: High Acuity PCU

Preferred Skills

IV Therapy/Phlebotomy: Arterial line management, Phlebotomy

Oncology: Chemotherapy Administration, Monitoring Chemotherapy

Respiratory: Non-invasive airway management

Cardiac Monitoring and Emergency Response: Management of dysrhythmias

Professional Topics and Skills: Wound Care/Wound Vac

Endocrine/Metabolic: IV insulin protocols, Titration of Insulin drips

Plastics: Surgical drains

Preferred Skills/Experience: 2 years of Oncology Experience

Teaching Hospital Experience

Required Credentials: Education must be from an ACEN or CCNE accredited program.

References must cover at least 1 full year of relevant experience in specialty within the past 3 years.

Special Requests: Former employees are eligible for a travel assignment once they have been away from the facility for 6 months or more

Current employees are ineligible to be hired as a traveler at any Ohio State University hospital location

Shift & Scheduling: D/N shift option available.

Self-schedule requests - you will enter your schedule requests so we can see your preferred schedule before balancing and posting the final schedule.

Pre-Approved Time Off: 1 Request

Floating Requirements: to other PCU or MedSurg Oncology units

Details:

• AUTO OFFER - NO INTERVIEW: This is an auto-offer position. You will likely not interview with the facility prior to receiving an offer. However, an interview can be arranged upon request. All time off requests must be submitted at application. Scheduling requests must be worked out with the manager directly upon starting the assignment. Any offers for this job will require a clear "Yes" or "No" response from the nurse within 24hrs or the offer must be declined.