Travel Med Surg / Stepdown

Job Description

Certification Details
• BLS (AHA)
• ACLS (AHA)

Job Details
• Regional hospital in the beautiful White Mountains of Arizona is in need of a travel RN to work in their MedSurg unit.
• Three 12-hour day shifts per week with a 36-hour guarantee and no cancellations.
• At an altitude of 7,000 ft., a plethora of outdoor activities and only a couple of hours to Flagstaff and Phoenix, this is the perfect opportunity to experience the best of Arizona!

Job Requirements
• Candidates will need BLS and at least 2 years of experience, including MedSurg in acute care setting to apply.

Schedule Information
• Days - Nights
• 3x12s
• 36 hour guarantee with 3 cancellations
• Weekend requirement: Every other weekend (days Sat & Sun and nights Fri & Sat)
• Orientation 2-3 days with preceptor

Additional Details
• 1-2 years of experience Tele, including experience in MedSurg acute care setting
• 18 beds - Telemetry with 6 PCU capable beds. all private rooms
• Will house COVID patients if needed - mixed unit with temporary walls and air handling system
• Charge nurse 24/7 will take 0-2 patients when needed
• Nurse managers don't provide patient care, but they do rounds
• Support staff on unit: Tele techs, charge nurse, HUCs and PCTs
• CNAs split the floor each taking up to 9 patients
• RNs nurse to patient ratios for are 1:4 and PCU/Stepdown is 1:3
• Tele: Phillips monitors, have monitor tech room. Nurses expected to validate monitor techs interpretation and document 4 hours or more frequent as needed.
• We do Cardizem, amiodarone, bumex, Lasix, integrillin, octreotide, protonix
• Vents; none-- high flow o2 on COVID step down pts, pts home cpap
• Hospitalist in house 24/7
• No IV team
• Resp Therapist 24/7
• Pharmacy 24/7
• Common dx; AMI, Stroke/TIA's, Pnuemonia, Renal (dialysis) afib rvr, SIRS, DM
• Floating: May float to all MS units;12 hr Nights