Required Skills/Experience:
First-time travelers must have 2 years of permanent staff RN experience in acute care.
Experience with titratable drips (Cardene, Cardizem, insulin, heparin, Neo, and Levophed) is required.

Preferred Skills/Experience:
Experience with chest tube management, tracheostomies, peritoneal dialysis, i-STAT, and CSF (lumbar) drains is preferred.

Required Credentials:
Travelers must pass an EKG competency exam as part of compliance before arrival, including Med-Surg RNs.

Special Requests:
Travelers must be separated for 1 year if previously permanent staff.
Up to 7 days of RTO is allowed, but the assignment must be extended by 1 week for every full week requested off.
Only 1 weekend of RTO may be requested per 13-week contract.

Unit Details:
Patient types include AFIB/RVR, DKA, HTN, COPD, ARF, and patients status post heart catheterization.
Stroke-unit overflow includes CVA/TIA patients requiring TPA administration and spinal surgical cases including ACDF and laminectomy.
The CNA patient ratio is 1:7.
The charge nurse may have a patient assignment.
Unit support includes in-house phlebotomy, an IV/VAT team available 7a-3p, a staffing-dependent resource nurse, in-house RT and hospitalist support, and OT, PT, and ST.
Centralized telemetry monitoring is available on the unit.
Uses Alaris IV pumps and Pyxis medication dispensing.

Shift & Scheduling:
Weekend rotation is every other weekend.
The schedule is mandatory: 4 shifts one week and 3 shifts the next.
Night shift is required to follow a 5/2 schedule: one group works every Monday/Tuesday, with Sunday, Monday, Tuesday one week followed by Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday the next, in a 5 on, 5 off, 2 on, 2 off pattern.
Night shift's other group works every Wednesday/Thursday, with Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday one week followed by Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday the next, in a 5 off, 5 on, 2 off, 2 on pattern.
No call.
Will work 2/3 holidays.

Floating Requirements:
Floats to Stroke and Med-Surg units, with 1:5-6 ratios.

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