RN - ER
Profession: Registered Nurse
Specialty: ER
Duration: 13 Weeks
Shift: Mid
Hours per Shift: 12
Experience: Minimum of 2 years ER experience required
License: MO or Compact required
Certifications: ACLS, BLS, NIHSS, PALS, SAFE (provided)
Must-Have:
- Cardiac Monitoring and Emergency Services
- IV therapy/Phlebotomy
- Medications
- Neurological skills
- Orthopedics skills
- Pediatrics skills
- Psychiatric skills
- Respiratory skills
- Shock/Trauma skills
Description:
Locals not accepted.
Radius restriction: 60-mile radius rule with no exceptions.
First-time travelers not accepted.
Start date: ASAP.
Contract length: 13 weeks.
Shift schedule: 3x12s from 2 PM to 2 AM.
Every other weekend required.
Skills required include:
- Abdominal pain management
- Acute psychosis management
- Arterial line management
- Intubation assistance and management
- Asthma care
- BiPAP/CPAP management
- Blood product administration
- Burns care
- Ventilated patient care
- Central line care/management
- Chest tube insertion/management
- Continuous IV paralytics
- Continuous IV sedation
- CVA (Cerebrovascular Accident) management
- Drug overdose intervention
- Emergency medication administration
- Epiglottitis management
- General emergency department skills in adult and pediatric care
- Gunshot wound management
- Head injury care
- Hyperglycemia management
- ICP monitoring
- Neglect or abuse identification and reporting
- Infection management
- Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs)
- Dysrhythmia interpretation
- Isolation precautions and PPE
- IV vasopressor management
- Splint management
- Management of dysrhythmias
- Management of multi-system organ dysfunction/failure
- Violent behavior management
- Mental and behavioral health conditions
- Near-drowning management
- Neuro-trauma management
- 12-lead EKG/ECG acquisition
- Ortho trauma care
- Phlebotomy skills
- Poison ingestion management
- Procedural sedation administration and monitoring
- Psychiatric hold management
- Respiratory infection management
- Seizure care
- Sickle cell crisis management
- Skin disorder care
- Spinal cord injury management
- STEMI certified facility experience
- Stroke certified facility experience
- Suicidal patient management
- Traumatic amputation management
- Traumatic brain injury care
- Triage skills
Patient age groups: Neonates, Adolescents, Infants, Adults, Pediatrics, and Geriatrics.
Patient ratios: 1:4.
Pre-approved time off is one time during the contract period, subject to approval.
Keep requests for time off to a minimum, preferably no requested calendar week off during the assignment.
Expect to work some holidays.
Nurses may be required to float to another department or take a patient assignment, without caring for patients outside their established competencies.
