Critical Care Float Pool - Travel Registered Nurse - $2300 per week.

Trusted is seeking an experienced nurse for this exciting travel nursing assignment. Trusted has streamlined the travel nursing experience by enabling nurses to apply directly to jobs without the need for recruiters. This unique approach provides more transparency, eliminates pesky calls from recruiters, and puts more money in your pocket. Join the thousands of nurses across the country who have already made the switch to a more modern way to work.

Experience:

• 12 months of experience with 3 months within the last 12 months.

• 2 years of Critical Care Float Pool experience with 1 month within the last 6 months.

• 3 months of Epic experience is preferred.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have a Washington license or compact license (required for submission).

• This role will require floating to multiple units

• COVID vaccination required after submission. Religious and medical declinations accepted.

• Anyone who worked as Staff at a facility in this program in the last 12 months cannot be submitted.

• Anyone currently working at a facility in this program cannot be submitted.

Pre-employment modules may be required for this role. Please upload any certifications or health documents you have to your profile to expedite your on-boarding process.

Additional Details:

MultiCare includes the expected start date they prefer on their job postings. Please keep this in mind when listing your start date availability! If you can start on the day they are requesting, you are more likely to be selected for an interview or offer.

Please expect someone with a 501 (Arkansas) area code or from the facility to reach out to interview you for this position!

Required Skills/Experience:
If you have a multistate license, you will be required to complete a 1-time 6-hour suicide prevention training according to WA state regulations.
PCU/PCU ER hold assignments require 2 years of PCU experience.
Required ICU skills include cardiac rhythm interpretation, ventilator management, invasive line management, ostomy care, general drains, and tracheostomies.
Required PCU skills include cardiac rhythm interpretation, chest tubes, lumbar drains, tracheostomies, and IV medication titration for amiodarone, Cardizem, nitro, dopamine, dobutamine, non-DKA insulin, and heparin; Cardene is sometimes used.
Required Med-Surg skills include IVs, PCAs, chest tubes, drains, ostomies, and IV antibiotics.
Traveler telemetry competency required.
Special Requests:
Any RTO or special requests not included on your application will not be considered.
You can only have 1 active application for the same position (same unit & shift at the same facility). For example, if you apply for day shift, you can also apply for night shift on the same unit and facility, but you cannot apply for another day shift position on the same unit & facility.
No holiday requests are allowed.
Time off is approved up to 5 days; requests for additional days must be emailed to NM Todd Murray.
If requesting time off, you must be willing to add it to the end of the assignment.
Unit Details:
ED Holding is the primary unit for this assignment. It serves patients waiting on a bed, has mixed diagnoses, isolation patients, and nonambulatory patients, and is fast-paced.
Assignments may include COVID overflow.
ICU cases include respiratory failure, GI bleeds, DKA, sepsis, complicated postoperative patients, CVAs, flap surgeries, post-arrest patients, ETOH, and IVDA.
Higher-level therapies include Rotoprone, manual proning, hypothermia protocol, CRRT, and TPA. Flap surgery patients will not be assigned.
No craniotomies, major traumas, or major cardiothoracic cases are assigned.
PCU cases include respiratory compromise, sepsis, renal failure, bleeding disorders, general medical/surgical patients, CHF, COPD, pneumonia, and general and orthopedic cases.
Med-Surg assignments include oncology patients (including neutropenic and postoperative patients), psychiatric patients, general medical-surgical patients (postoperative, COPD, CHF, sepsis, DVT, AKI, dialysis, and COVID), orthopedic patients (total joints, postoperative patients, and general medical overflow), and palliative patients (pneumonia, sepsis, CHF, COPD, AKI, DVT, PE, occasional surgical cases, and COVID). COVID is common on this floor.
Rehab assignments include neuro patients with stroke, spinal cord injury, TBI, multi-trauma, post-COVID, and post-ICU conditions. Ventilated and tracheostomy patients are on the unit; respiratory therapy provides just-in-time training. Patients have Med-Surg-level acuity.
Transport assignments involve transporting patients throughout the hospital, including all inpatient units, ED, CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, PACU, and Cath Lab.
Day-shift transport assignments typically become busy at and do not slow down for the rest of the day.
Patient ratios vary by assignment: ICU 1:2 based on acuity; PCU and CCU 1:4 depending on acuity or whether a patient is discharging; Medical and Surgical 1:5; and Rehab 1:8 in a team model (RN, LPN, Tech).
In ED Holding, ICU patients are 1:2, PCU patients are 1:4, and MS patients are 1:5; ICU and PCU nurses have a 1:5 assignment when caring for MS patients.
RT, hospitalist, and intensivist support is available 24/7.
Equipment includes Alaris IV pumps and Pyxis medication dispensing.
Shift & Scheduling:
Must call the RMC staffing office at least 30-45 minutes before each shift to get an assignment (preferred option).
Weekends vary depending on unit needs.
Schedules are provided 3 weeks at a time, approximately 10 days before the schedule begins.
Self-scheduling is not available.
No call is required.
Floating Requirements:
Mainly floats to ED Holding while supporting GSH 1 Dally/2 River North and South/Float Pool teams.
Could float for partial shifts.
Will float within scope of practice and below.
When PCU nurses float to MS, the ratio is 1:5.

5 days maximum time off

2 Manager references required from within the last 12 months

Certifications:

• BLS (Basic Life Support)

• ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support)

• NIHSS (NIH Stroke Scale)

• Skills Checklist: Yes
• References: Yes
• License Type: registered
• License State: WA
• Certifications: Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support, Basic Life Support, NIH Stroke Scale

Job Details

• Job Type: Travel
• Nurse/Patient: 1/2
• Shift Type: Day
• Contract Date:
• Expected Length: 13 weeks
• Hours per Shift: 12
• Shifts per Week: 3