Travel Nurse (RN) - Post Anesthesia 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:

Please keep in mind when listing your start date availability, if you can start the day Monument Health is requesting, you are more likely to be selected for an interview or offer.

Expect someone with a 501 or 605 area code to reach out to interview you for this position.

Guaranteed Hour: 40

Patient Types:

• Infants-Geriatric patient population – they do not recover a ton of infants and would be trained on recovery of that population.

Required Education: Completion of a nursing education program that is approved by a board of nursing; Registered Nurse (RN) - South Dakota Board of Nursing

Must have Critical Care experience and competencies with ICU cases including hemodynamic drips and ventilated patients.

Variable shift RN: May be learned in orientation, but competencies include: IV insertion, ventilator training, epidural/PCA set up/initiation, initiation of blood product transfusions, competency with administration and monitoring of moderate sedation (will not work Intra-op in Endo but would prep and recover), critical thinking

Orientation: (facility and unit)

• General facility orientation
• 1 weeklong orientation

Weekend rotation: Pre-Op/PACU staff have 4 weekend call teams, each caregiver responsible for a weekend call rotation every three weeks

Call Required: Each caregiver has a 2300-0700 call shift about every 2-3 weeks that is during Monday-Friday, in addition to their scheduled 36 hours (WITH EXCEPTION OF NIGHT RN, NO 2300-0700 CALL REQUIRED for that position). Then Each caregiver is also responsible for their designated weekend. These shifts will change throughout the contract period, but the requirement is a weekend call (varied hours Fri-Sun) every 3 weeks.

• Response time is 15 minutes. There is a sleep room and other options available.
• There are always 2 or more people on call at once: Overnight (Mon-Fri) – always 2 RNs On Call (2300-0530) Saturday – 4 RNs ON CALL during Dayshift (0530-1800), 2 OVERNIGHT 1800-0530 Sunday – 4 RNs ON CALL during Dayshift (0530-1800), 2 OVERNIGHT 1800-0700

Holiday Expectations: Holidays are rotated between call teams; all holidays are on call rotations. Will work (2) holidays per year.

Approval of time off: Time off requests go through Manager

No RTO will be considered during the first 3 weeks of August annually (Sturgis Bike Rally)

Scrub Color: Navy Blue