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
Keywords: East Alabama Medical Center, Auburn , Travel Nurse RN - Med Surg - $2,074 per week, Healthcare , Opelika, Alabama
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