ED - Emergency Room

Opportunity:

RN - ER

Job Details:

• Varied shift start times of 10:00 AM, 11:00 AM, and 12:00 PM
• Patient ratio of 1:4
• Every third weekend required, or 8 weekend shifts per 6-week schedule period, combination of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
• No on-call required
• Holiday shifts and Charge RN assignments as needed per unit
• May float between departments, units, and facilities as needed to all SLHS Metro EDs
• Guaranteed hours: 3 shifts per 13 weeks
• Minimum 2 years of experience required; travel experience required
• Previous charge experience required
• No first-time travelers accepted
• Home address must be at least 75 miles from the facility
• Maximum of 7 days of requested time off
• Scrub color: Navy
• Charting system: Epic required
• Required certifications: BLS, NIHSS, ACLS, PALS
• Required skills include pediatric care (abdominal pain, asthma, burns, epiglottitis, head injury, hyperglycemia, infections, mental/behavioral health conditions, poison ingestion, respiratory infections, seizures, sickle cell crisis, skin disorders, urinary tract infections, identifying and reporting abuse)
• Required psychiatric skills: acute psychosis, drug overdose, managing violent behavior, psychiatric hold, suicidal patient
• Required IV therapy/phlebotomy skills: arterial line management, blood product administration, central line care/management, phlebotomy, starting IVs
• Required respiratory skills: chest tube insertion/management, CPAP/BiPAP, interpretation of ABGs, intubation, ventilated patients
• Required medication skills: continuous IV paralytics, continuous IV sedation, emergency medications, IV vasopressors
• Required neurological skills: CVA management
• Required cardiac monitoring skills: interpretation and management of dysrhythmias, management of patient with multisystem organ dysfunction/failure, obtaining 12-lead EKG
• Required professional skills: isolation precautions, triage, managing/applying splints
• Preferred skills: near drowning, procedural sedation administration
• Work settings include general emergency department combined adult/pediatric, STEMI certified facility, and stroke certified facility
• Interdisciplinary support available including respiratory services, interpretation services, radiology, pharmacy, and transportation
• Patients treated include adolescents, adults, pediatrics, and geriatrics
• Facility averages 143 patient visits per day across 32 rooms