Travel Nurse RN - Pain Management - $2,900 to $3,000 per week in California

Registered Nurse (RN) | Pain Management
Location: California
Agency: job.com
Pay: $2,900 to $3,000 per week
Contract Duration: 13 Weeks
Start Date: ASAP

About the Position

Work Settings

• Acute Care
• Ambulatory Care / Outpatient Clinic
• IV Therapy

Key Responsibilities

IV Therapy

• Starting and maintaining IV lines

Pain Management Procedures

• Assist with and monitor patients undergoing:
  • Brachial plexus block
  • Celiac plexus block
  • Cervical epidural
  • Epidural steroid injections
  • Facet joint injections
  • Lumbar epidural block
  • Lumbar sympathetic block
  • Stellate ganglion block
  • Sympathetic nerve block
  • Thoracic epidural

Office & Patient Care Duties

• Telephone triage
• Discharge instructions and safety education
• Follow-up phone calls

Pharmacological Management

• Epidural analgesia
• Intrathecal analgesia
• Administration of local anesthetics

Professional Knowledge & Skills

• Recognition of toxicity signs and symptoms
• Understanding complications of regional anesthesia
  (motor/sensory block, hemodynamic instability)
• Pain assessment in non-verbal/non-cognitive patients
• Opioid safety protocols
• Patient safety and injury prevention

Pain Management Expertise

• Hyperalgesia
• Neuropathic pain
• Nociceptive pain
• Visceral pain
• Acute, chronic, and breakthrough pain

Assessment Skills

• Medication reconciliation
• Vital signs monitoring
• Pain assessment using:
  • Numerical Rating Scale
  • Wong-Baker Faces Scale

Special Populations

• Geriatric (Older Adult) patients

Additional Requirements

• Strong IV skills
• Proven pain management experience in a procedural setting

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of RN experience
• Must have direct pain management experience
  (Experience limited to medication administration in OR/PACU will not be considered)