Travel Nurse RN - Med Surg / Telemetry - $2,113 per week
Company: CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - B
Location: Omaha
Posted on: September 29, 2024
Job Description:
- Certification Details
- Certifications: BLS required, ACLS preferred
- Job Details
- Facility in Eastern Nebraska is looking for several traveling
Med-Surg nurses. The hospital is looking for both day and night
shift coverage.
- The shift will be twelve hours, 13-26 Week Contacts, 36-48 hour
guarantee's.
- Job Requirements
- Department: Med Tele / Ortho RN - 4th Floor North & South
- Nurse:Patient Ratios: 1:5-6
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: MedSurg/Tele- joint
replacements, fractures, colon resections, COPD exacerbation,
prostatectomy, cellulitis, sepsis, ortho trauma, GI bleeds,
pneumonia, failure to thrive
- Are RN's required to titrate drips?: Heparin, lidocaine, and
ketamine
- Common titratable &/or set rate drips: PCA pumps
- Is there a Charge Nurse on each shift? Does the charge nurse
take an assignment?: Yes
- Are there nurse aids/patient care techs on this unit? Ratios?
Duties?: Yes- 1:10-20
- Are there Tele/Monitor Techs on this unit? Are RN's required to
read their own strips? What brand are the tele monitors?: Tele
techs will interpret, RNs should have some tele awareness
- Floating Requirements: Yes to other medical surgical areas or
units with MedSurg patients waiting for a MedSurg bed
- Schedule Information
- Shifts & Scheduling (Do you allow self-scheduling? Block
scheduling?): 0630-1900, 1830-0700 // Travelers will be scheduled.
Will approve a limited amount of block scheduling
- Weekend Requirements: Every other weekend
- Holiday Requirements: 1 major, 1 minor
- Unit Specific Information
- # of Beds: 55
- Is there a Charge Nurse on each shift? Does the charge nurse
take an assignment?: Yes
- How many shifts of unit/department specific orientation?: 2
days
- Additional Notes: This unit typically has multiple discharges
and admissions in one day- a nurse is successful on this unit when
they can manage the business of the day, have good attendance, are
a team player, friendly, compassionate, and cares about patients
first. They serve patients of all cultures on this unit including
Spanish, Karen, Burmese
- Scrub Color/Dress Code/Scrubs Provided?: RNs: Navy Blue
- Additional Details
- ACLS Preferred, BLS
- Have mechanical lifts in every other room, Big focus on hourly
rounding and responsiveness, This unit typically has multiple
discharged and admissions in one day- a nurse is successful on this
unit when they can manage the business of the day, have good
attendance, are a team player, friendly, compassionate, and cares
about patients first. They serve patients of all cultures on this
unit including Spanish, Karen, Burmese
- Radius Rule: 50 miles AND candidates may not be full time, part
time, or PRN with any facility associated with CommonSpirit,
including CHI and/or Dignity.
- RTO needed upfront (7 or less days per 13 week contract).
Additional RTO will not be approved, including after
submissions.
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