Registered Nurse - ER

Travel Nurse RN - ED - Emergency Department

RTO after booking is not allowed and is not allowed to be worked out onsite. Any call offs or additional RTO on unit, could possibly turn into a cancel and DNR.

Required Skills / Certs / Exp:

• Minimum years of experience: 2-3 years ED experience
• Screen for less than 2 years traveler experience: Accepts 1st time travelers
• Locals accepted / rate difference: Yes
• Skills: IV start, triage, telemetry, conscious sedation, interpretation of dysrhythmias, management of dysrhythmias, procedural sedation administration
• Certs: ACLS, BCLS, NIH, PALS, and MOAB (facility will offer MOAB class)

Preferred Skills / Certs / Exp:

• Skills: critical care patients, trauma, triage, and boarding inpatients
• Certs: ENPC and TNCC

Job Details:

• Target ratios: 1:4 - assignments flex up and down based on acuity
• 36 hours only can be offered
• Unit will accept 13 weeks!
• Shift: 12 hour nights; 18:45 - 07:15
• RTO: 7 days max for Aya auto offer
• Float requirement: None
• Weekend requirement: This is every other weekend – Sat/Sun

Patient Diagnoses:

Community hospital setting in Northern Mecklenburg County.

Special Procedures / Unit Details:

Stroke certified- we give t-Pa, TNK, and transfer to PMC. Chest pain certified- only walk-in STEMI. Transfer to PMC cath lab for intervention. No trauma services, transfer to PMC. No dialysis services, transfer. We do not admit pediatrics, transfer. We care for the entire age spectrum. We have nurses and CNA's, MUR and paramedics. We have ED MD's and MLP's. Dedicated charge nurse 24/7. Can be overcapacity in house, thus ED MSU boarding occurs. Our cath lab performs intervention onsite paramedics in our department.

Special Equipment:

Alaris IV pumps Scanning for medications and lab specimens

Unit Systems:

Pyxis, EPIC

Scheduling Type:

Per unit needs

Unit Orientation:

2- 12 hour shifts of orientation on the unit; Hospital Orientation week one; traveler must be available for classes each day.