Travel Nurse (RN) - Medical Surgical Unit

Required Skills/Experience:
First-time travelers are accepted if they have a solid foundation as an RN and more than 2 years' experience in medical/surgical nursing.
MS/Tele experience is required.
Required cardiac monitoring and emergency response skills include telemetry with remote monitoring and use of rapid response teams.
Required genitourinary/renal case skills include pre-/post-hemodialysis management and experience with renal failure.
Required IV therapy/phlebotomy skills include blood product administration, central line blood draw, peripheral line care/management, PICC line management, and starting IVs.
Heparin experience is required.
Required respiratory case skills include chest tubes (Emerson/Pleur-evac), CPAP/BiPAP, high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC), nasal cannula, non-invasive airway management, oral suctioning, and portable oxygen tank use.
Required professional knowledge and skills include isolation precautions, wound care, and wound vac.
Previous Charge Experience: Required

Preferred Skills/Experience:
Kidney Transplant experience is preferred.
Urology/Nephrology experience is preferred.
Teaching hospital experience is preferred.

Special Requests:
References must cover at least 1 full year of relevant experience in specialty within the past 3 years.
You must be able to complete labs within 48 hours of signing.
RTO is ideally no more than 5 days.

Unit Details:
Adult patient population.
Unit care includes continuous bladder irrigation, a difficult urinary catheter insertion team, and postoperative care of kidney transplant patients.
The unit is very busy, discharging and readmitting about a third to half of the floor per day.
On rare occasions, the unit may have up to 7 patients.
The patient population is 50-75% urology/nephrology illness and surgical procedures as well as kidney transplant. Common conditions include kidney stones, enlarged prostates, cancer of the kidney, bladder, penile, and prostate, complex bladder urology surgeries, end-stage kidney disease, and medical-surgical overflow diagnoses including UTI, pneumonia, and cellulitis. The unit receives step-down transfers from ICU and IMC with a wide range of diagnoses.

Shift & Scheduling:
Will work every other weekend.
No call.

Floating Requirements:
Will float to other Medical Surgical units.

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