Travel Nurse (RN) - Medical Surgical Unit

Required Skills/Experience:

• Must have completed at least 1 travel assignment.
• IV insertion, trach management, chest tube management, NG tube placement and management, feeding tube management, Foley placement and management, wound care, dressing changes, and central line management.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Cardiac rhythm interpretation preferred.

Special Requests:

• Permanent staff must wait 2 years before returning as a traveler.
• Block scheduling may be accommodated per manager but cannot be guaranteed.
• RTO requests up to 7 days require clinical team approval; more than 7 days requires unit manager approval.
• Assigned a holiday in rotation; holiday RTO requests require approval.

Unit Details:

• Fast-paced observation patients on the south side and heavy post-op patients on the north side, including total joints, bariatrics, general surgery, and Med-Surg overflow.
• Medical patient population includes CHF, diabetes, dialysis, COPD, ETOH, and IVDA.
• Telemetry is remotely monitored by tele techs 24/7; RNs do not read or verify strips and are notified of rhythm changes.
• General surgical, post-operative, and observation patients.
• Ratios are typically 1:5-6 and can flex up to 7 during surge times, though this is rare.
• Charge nurse takes a patient load.
• Hospitalist and RT are in house 24/7.
• Phlebotomy performs most peripheral draws; nurses draw all central lines.
• Uses BD Alaris IV pumps and Pyxis.

Shift & Scheduling:

• Every other weekend expectation; back-to-back weekends are rare.
• No self-scheduling.
• Overtime may be available depending on staffing.

Floating Requirements:

• Float to any Med-Surg unit and the holding/overflow unit.

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