ER Travel Nurse - Elizabethtown, KY

This ER travel nurse position in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel ER Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Baptist Health - Hardin. This role pays $2,048 per week and follows a Days shift with a 3x12 schedule.

As the ER registered nurse on this assignment, you'll rapidly triage incoming patients, reprioritize as acuity shifts, deliver time-sensitive medications and interventions as ordered, and drive stabilization, testing, and disposition with the emergency team.

Advantis Medical supports travel clinicians with streamlined credentialing to help with fast start dates, free license support and renewals, and Day 1 benefits.

Responsibilities

• Triage and assess patients across the full range of acuity, re-prioritizing care as conditions evolve
• Deliver rapid interventions for emergent presentations such as cardiac emergencies, stroke, trauma, and sepsis
• Administer emergency medications, IV therapy, and other treatments as ordered
• Respond to codes and trauma activations as part of the resuscitation team when assigned

Travel Nursing Requirements

• 2+ years of recent ER nursing experience
• Active Kentucky RN License

Baptist Health Hardin is an acute care hospital in Elizabethtown with medical, surgical, maternity and cancer services across its hospital campus.

• Its Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center provides emergency evaluation and treatment for suspected stroke.
• Critical care includes a cardiac intensive care unit and a surgical intensive care unit that treats postoperative patients and patients with medical critical-care needs.
• A progressive care unit serves adult and geriatric patients stepping down from intensive care, including patients recovering from cardiac illness or stroke.
• Operative services include hip and knee replacement. The campus medical pavilion adds a hybrid operating room and cardiac catheterization labs to the hospital's procedural facilities.
• Maternity services are supported by the Kosair for Kids Level II NICU for newborns needing specialized care.
• The Hardin Cancer Center in the campus medical pavilion treats solid tumors, blood cancers and benign blood disorders, using chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy and radiation.