ER Travel Nurse - Lexington, KY

This ER travel nurse position in Lexington, Kentucky, with Advantis Medical is a 14-week Travel ER Registered Nurse (RN) contract at UK Albert B Chandler Hospital (AKA Kentucky Hospital). This role pays $2,110 per week and follows a Nights 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

University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital (UK HealthCare) — Lexington, KY

The Albert B. Chandler Hospital is the flagship academic medical center of UK HealthCare — the referral hospital for central and eastern Kentucky's most complex trauma, transplant, cardiac, and cancer cases.

• An ACS-verified Level I trauma center — one of only two in Kentucky and the only one serving central and eastern Kentucky — feeding what UK calls the area's busiest emergency department.
• A Level IV NICU (the region's only one) and Golisano Children's Hospital at UK, giving neonatal and pediatric RNs the state's highest level of newborn care.
• The UK Markey Cancer Center — Kentucky's only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center — with a dedicated inpatient cancer floor and a 32-bed blood-and-marrow transplant unit.
• Active solid-organ and bone-marrow transplant programs, the Gill Heart & Vascular Institute, and the Kentucky Neuroscience Institute concentrate transplant, cardiac, and neuro acuity.
• The teaching hospital of the UK College of Medicine, anchoring a health system of 80-plus specialized clinics across the Commonwealth.