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:

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

Previous Employment Requirements: Former employees are eligible for a travel assignment once they have been away from the facility for 6 months or more.

Required Skills/Experience: 2 years of PCU/Med-Surg experience. Needs PCU level experience with Neuro patients Neuro Skills - hard stop.

IV Therapy/Phlebotomy

Blood Product Administration

Peripheral Line Care/Management

Work Settings

Neuro Stepdown

PCU/DOU/IMC/Stepdown

Neurological/Psychiatric

Craniotomy

CVA (Cerebrovascular Accident)

Intracranial bleeds

Post TPA care

Pre/Post neurosurgery

Traumatic Brain injury

Medications

Heparin Protocols

Respiratory

Nasal Cannula

Oxygen administration

Cardiac Monitoring and Emergency Response

Interpretation of dysrhythmias

Management of dysrhythmias

Professional Topics and Skills

Isolation Precautions .

Preferred Skills/Experience: Teaching Hospital Experience.

IV Therapy/Phlebotomy

Accessing/Managing Ports*

Arterial line management*

Central line care/management*

Phlebotomy*

PICC line management*

Starting and maintaining IVs*

Work Settings

Cardiac Telemetry*

Gastrointestinal

Feeding tube care and management*

Medications

Titrate Cardiac drips*

Respiratory

High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)*

Cardiac Monitoring and Emergency Response

Telemetry – on the unit monitoring*

Professional Topics and Skills

Wound Care/Wound Vac*

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

Procedures/Diagnostics/Treatments Performed on Unit: Patient Diagnoses: Stroke unit- do get med surg patients also on this unit as well as other neurological diagnosis patients, EEG, Craniotomy. Special Procedures/Unit Details: TNK administration, lumbar drains.

Types of Patients on Unit: Adults.

Special Requests: RTO required with submission.

Shift & Scheduling: Rotating weekdays and weekends. Rotating holidays. Weekend Coverage: Every Other.

Floating Requirements: Will be required to float to different units within the OSU organization as needed.

Details:

• AUTO OFFER - NO INTERVIEW: Please request an interview for one match from this facility at a time. You will not interview with the hiring manager if the facility chooses to extend an offer to you for this position. 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.