Travel Nurse (RN) - Step Down Unit

Required Skills/Experience:

• Tele interpretation; initiate/titrate insulin, heparin, and cardiac drips.
• 1 travel assignment required.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• PIV insertion, stable home vents, chest tube/indwelling drain management, CBI, stable drips (lasix, protonix), blood product administration, continuous BiPap, and neutropenic precautions.

Required Credentials:

• Associate Degree or Certificate.

Unit Details:

• Stepdown/PCU patient population, including drips (insulin, heparin, cardiac, etc.), sepsis, CHF, COPD, DKA, cirrhosis, dementia, and surgical urology, abdominal, and ortho patients.
• Ratios: SDU days 1:4-5, nights 1:5-6; Tele days 1:5-6, nights 1:6. Charge nurse rarely takes patients on days, but takes an assignment on night shift.
• May require precepting students and new hires.

Shift & Scheduling:

• Every third weekend. Every other holiday.
• Flexible contract hours: 48 per week available upon request.

Floating Requirements:

• First to float within skillset. Potential float to Deaconess Newburgh (IN) campus (8 miles apart) and Deaconess Gateway (IN – 11 miles). 2 HR notice given for cross-campus float. Mid-shift float within same campus. Cross-campus mid-shift float is unlikely but possible.

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