Job Description

Certification Details

• BLS - Basic Life Support
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support
• NIH Stroke Certification

Job Details

• Minimum Experience: 2 years; 1st Timers are accepted depending on years of experience
• Patient Population: Adults to Geriatrics
• General Skills and Work Setting Requirements: 8 Main (Med Surg/Tele): Acute on Chronic Heart Failure, Post Cath with interventions, Chest pain, Unstable Angina, Irregular Heart Rhythms with Amiodarone gtts, ACS, Sepsis, Syncope, AKI, Pneumonia, Respiratory Distress with Bipap, Seizures, Pulmonary embolism, Hypertension, Small Bowel obstruction, Lower GI Bleed; Intermediate Care Unit/PCU/Stepdown: Decompensated Heart Failure on Dobutamine gtts, DKA on Insulin gtts, AFIB with RVR, Septic patients requiring low dose Levophed gtt, Thoracic patients with chest tubes, CVAs, Fresh Trachs, GSW/MVCs, GI Bleeds requiring multiple units of blood, Hypertensive Emergency requiring Cardene gtt, Occasional Pregnant patients requiring telemetry, Acute Encephalopathy, some due to ETOH abuse and requiring a Precedex gtt, Other drips: Dopamine, Nitro, Amiodarone, Cardizem, Lasix, Milrinone, Labetolol (All gtts are titrated according to protocols), Patients requiring to go off the unit for tests, require the nurse to go with them with a portable monitor.
• Ratio / Census: Staffing Ratios on 8 main/telemetry are 1:6, Staffing ratios in the IMCU are 1:3/4 (depends on gtts); 32 Beds with 28 Rooms
• Unit Systems: Epic, Pyxis, SBAR
• Scrub Color: Royal Blue
• RTO: MAX 7 days
• Weekends: Every other weekend
• Floating: Yes within scope and across facility and campuses
• Call Requirements: None
• Holidays: If one major holiday falls in his/her assignment period, the traveler is expected to work it. If two major holidays fall in his/her assignment period, the traveler is expected to work both of the holidays. If three major holidays fall in his/her assignment period, the traveler is expected to work two of the holidays.

Job Requirements

• Certifications Required: BLS, ACLS, NIH
• State License verification (if applicable) - within 30 days prior to start date
• Annual Nursys (RN, LPN/LVN, AP) within 30 days prior to start date

Schedule Information

• Contract Length: 12 weeks
• Compliance: Full compliance required to start on time; if not compliant in time the push back is 2 weeks due to bi-weekly orientation schedule.

Additional Details

• Photo ID Required
• Required for RN’s in following specialties: PACU/Pre-op/Endo/CSU (if these areas accept pediatric patients), ER
• Required for RNs and LVNs by Aya only. Not required by Client. Not required for subcontractors.

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