Travel Nurse RN - Med Surg - $2,074 per week

Company: East Alabama Medical Center
Location: Opelika
Posted on: October 30, 2024

Job Description:

• Certification Details
• Required Certifications: BLS, NIHSS for 5T and BLS for 7T
• Must be willing to work some part of Christmas holidays and New Year's eve or day
  • Job Details
  • Hospital In Alabama is in need of Medsurg RN's for both days and nights.
    • Job Requirements
    • Required certifications: 5T: BLS, NIHSS; 7T: BLS
    • Experience: 7T: Teamwork, initiative.
    • Are RNs required to titrate drips?: 5T: No; 7T: Heparin (with the direction for Pharmacist).
    • Common titratable &/or set rate drips: 5T: N/A; 7T: All set rates for drips on 7T. Amiodarone (stable dose), Dobutamine (stable dose not new to patient), Cardizem (stable dose).
    • Are there tele/monitor techs on this unit? Are RNs required to read their own strips? What brand are the tele monitors?: 5T: No. Required to be able to read strips. Monitor room has techs but not located on unit; 7T: No tele techs on floor. CMR owns the process. Phillips.
    • Nurse aides: Yes, No set ratio. Goal is
    • RT Equipment: 5T: High flow, Cpap, BiPap; 7T: All O2 modalities up to BiPAP. No ventilators.
      • Schedule Information
      • Shifts & Scheduling: 5T: Modified self schedule; 7T: Contract employees do not self-schedule. Block scheduling accommodated when able.
      • Weekend Requirement: 4 shifts per 4 weeks.
      • Holiday Requirement: 5T: 1 major and 2 minors in winter; 7T: Thanksgiving or Christmas + NY or NYE. One summer holiday (July 4th or Memorial Day).
      • Call or a Standby Requirement: No - only applies to full time staff.
      • Floating Requirements: Yes. Within medical-surgical division.
      • Unit Specific Orientation: 5T: 2 shifts of orientation on unit; 7T: One-week of PCPO at the education center plus two (12) hour shifts on assigned unit.
        • Unit Specific Information
        • # Beds: 5T: 34; 7T: 36
        • Nurse: Patient Ratios: 1:5-6
        • Charge Nurse/House Supervisor: Charge nurse will flow into staffing if census dictates or staffing calls for it.
          • Additional Details
          • BLS;Department: Med/Surg - RN
          • Common diagnoses: 5T: CKD, ESRD, CVA, DM; 7T: COPD, Sepsis, AMS, UTI, AKI, Diabetes, COVID, Anemia, Weakness.
          • Scrub Color: Ceil Blue; not provided.
          • Radius Rule: 100 miles

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