Travel Nurse (RN) - Acute Care Float Pool

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:

Start date, hours and shift are all firm.

26 week contracts are highly preferred, 13 weeks are accepted.

Guaranteed hours: 48

First-time traveler: Upon review

Patient Types:

• Please ask all travelers about charge experience and include in the offer info if they have/have not worked in a CRN capacity
• ED Holding/MedSurg:
• Depending on demand during the assignment, you could be pre-assigned to this area for many of your shifts
• Traveler will float to other areas as often as is needed

Resource Role (Dependent on specialty):

• Unassigned but would float through all areas and work within your scope to assist as a task person – transport, starting IV’s, med pass, etc.

Merritt 3 (All Surgical patients): 44 beds on Merritt

• COVID
• Surgical: Bariatric (Gastric Bypass), Vascular Surgeries, Urology (TURP, cystos), GI (hemicolectomies, exploratory laps, bowel resection), colorectal surgeries, Ortho (total joint, ORIF, external fixation)

Grant 5/Grant 6 (Oncology/Medical): 2 units - 40 beds each

• All medical type patients. Stroke patients, Rarely post op patients. No pediatric patients, no obstetric patients
• Neutropenic patients, oncology patients (travelers do not need specific experience with this patient population)
• Insulin and Heparin drips

Grant 4/ P6 (Cardiac): 48 beds on G4 and 32 on P6 – Telemetry Level of Care

• CHF, MI, arrhythmias, cardiac interventional patients, pre/post heart caths (radial and femoral approach), stents, ablations, pacemakers, Med Surg overflow, post-op CABG, TAVR, other cardiac interventions; Common drips: Cardizem, Amiodarone, Insulin, heparin, etc.
• CABG, TAVR (Perm staff will take these patients)
• Cardiothoracic patients

Floating:This is a float pool position that floats between all levels of care, appropriate to care type – this does include floating into the ED to take ED holds (patients with admission orders) AND/OR ED Observation patients (holding orders but not fully admitted); will include patients within your scope of practice and below; as well as PACU Holds (patients with inpatient orders awaiting a bed)

Skills required:

-Tele RN: Chest Tubes, temp pacemakers (preferred not required), Cardiac drips (Cardizem, amiodarone) – protocols for rate changes, Heparin gtts, Insulin gtts; Reading/Interpreting Rhythm strips; PIV starts, trach care, dressing changes, wound vacs, PCA’s, total joint care, Stroke experience

Orientation:

• General hospital orientation followed by a tour by the education department to each floor. They get one shift of orientation and then they are on their own.

Scheduling:

• Weekend rotation: every other (Dayshift: Sat/Sun; Nightshift: Fri/Sat)
• Can we approve time off? To go through manager
• No call
• Holiday Expectations: no RTO accepted for Holidays

Scrub Color RN: Any color, must be professional

Roles requiring state licensure only: License should not expire within 45 days following start date

Travel Pairs: If you are in a relationship, EMMC will not schedule you on the same days. If you are not in a relationship, you can be scheduled for the same days if not on the same shift/unit. Managers will not guarantee the same schedule for travel pairs.