Travel Nurse RN - Cardiovascular Operating Room - $3,247 per week in Des Moines, IA

Registered Nurse (RN) | Cardiovascular Operating Room
Location: Des Moines, IA
Agency: Lancesoft Inc
Pay: $3,247 per week
Shift Information: Days - 4 days x 10 hours
Contract Duration: 26 Weeks
Start Date: ASAP

About the Position

Mon - Fri, 4x10s with rotating day off; holiday rotation; 40 hrs/week, Call - up to 2 overnight/week and 1 weekend/month
1 weekend/month; call schedule; Fri 5p through Mon 6:30a
HOLIDAY update: unless the Unit is closed, your contractor is required to work 1-2 of 3 upcoming Summer holidays (Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day)

On call: up to 2 overnight/week and 1 weekend/month.

Requirements

• minimum of 24 months current/recent operating room experience Cardiovascular OR / CVOR experience [required]
• general circulating / general operating room experience [required] --- (80% of experience in Cardiac cases / 20% experience in General cases)
• strong & proficient experience in: Cardiac, vascular, thoracic [REQUIRED] --- 
• basic General Surgery circulating experience [REQUIRED] --- (if not assigned to Cardiac cases).
• EPIC electronic medical systems experience within previous 3 years [required]
• Trauma Level I experience [highly preferred]
• trauma level II experience [required]
• IA/ compact license
• BLS rom AHA
• Driver’s License [document] [required]
• No 1st time travelers, must have completed a travel assignment within previous 15 mos. [required]
• Scrub experience including open heart scrubbing [REQUIRED]
• Traveler will be required to float across all campuses; Iowa Methodist MC, Iowa Lutheran & Iowa Methodist

UNIT Info

• Patient Types: see submission requirements
• Patient Ratios: 1:1
• Bed Size: 16
• Scrubs: provided

Avg. caseload – Average 35-50 cases per day. Expectation for turnovers is less than 20 minutes.
Special equipment – 3 Davinci robots. Use Stealth technology for Neuro navigation and use primarily Synthes or Stryker for ortho trauma. We don’t do many ortho joints. 
How many suites – 16 OR’s. Run from 12-14 routinely. As a level 1 trauma center, we reserve space for traumas.
Service lines - Cardiac/ PV, Neuro, ortho (primarily trauma), robotics, gyn, uro, general, pediatrics, transplants. We do a small volume of ENT and plastic procedures. 
Scrub or Circulate – both would be preferred.
Other – the call for weekends is from end of shift on Friday until 0630am Monday.