Travel Nurse (RN) - Emergency Department

Resume: Each employment history entry must include all the following: detailed duties, hospital size, unit size, trauma level (if applicable), patient ratio, teaching facility.
References: At least one reference must be from the same unit/specialty as the job you're applying to.

Required Skills/Experience:
Must have 2.5 years of ED experience and be from a bigger urban hospital setting.

Preferred Skills/Experience:
Trauma experience preferred.

Special Requests:
Any employment gaps greater than 30 days must be explained.
The facility may make one-off exceptions if previously employed at the facility, but exceptions must be approved by St. Luke’s Health System.

Unit Details:
The department is designated Trauma Level IV, STEMI Level I, and Stroke Level II; it is working toward a Level III Trauma designation and takes Level III patients.
The fast-track area uses vertical space and rapid assessment.
Travelers do not triage.
ER holds are intermixed within the emergency department.
Psych/seclusion patients have 1:1 sitters.
Security is in-house and based in the emergency department.
The emergency department treats an average of 170 patients per day.
Patients include pediatric and adult populations, with stroke, STEMI, trauma, abdominal pain, and many high-acuity ESI Level I cases.
Pediatric patients are stabilized and transferred out.
Common drips include Nicardipine, Propofol, Fentanyl, Norepi, Nitro, Versed, Precedex, etc.
CNAs perform EKGs, phlebotomy, and wound care without irrigation; providers perform splinting.
RNs must read and interpret SpaceLabs cardiac monitors.
X-ray and CT are in the ER, with overflow in the main radiology department; patients are transported unless critical.
Laboratory draws are performed by RNs, CNAs, or phlebotomy.

Shift & Scheduling:
Shift options include 1330-0200, 1530-0400, and 1930-0800.
AM or PM start times may be mixed; a late shift will not be followed by an early shift.
Minimum 4 Saturday/Sundays in 6 weeks (2 weekends total).
Holidays as needed.
No call.

Floating Requirements:
This assignment is first to float.
The clinician may rarely float to the Boise Medical Center or Nampa Medical Center emergency departments.

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