Travel Nurse RN - Med Surg - $1,886 per week Job Listing at Wheeling Hospital in Wheeling, WV (Job ID 4490999-2024-08-18)

Description

Certification Details
• BLS is required.
• NIHSS required
• Some staff have ACLS - this would be a PLUS!

Job Details
• Hospital in WV is looking for Med Surg RN's to help out for 13 weeks.
• Must have BLS and be willing to float to COVID unit.

Job Requirements
• BLS, NIHSS
• BLS is required. NIHSS required Some staff have ACLS - this would be a PLUS!

Schedule Information
• 12-Hour Shifts: 0645-1915; 1845-0715.
• Schedules are made out for 6 weeks at a time. Staff is allowed to submit up to 6 requests off per 6-week schedule

Unit Specific Information
• Unit: MedSurg (Cost center 6090)
• Number of beds: 52-Beds - all private rooms
• Ratios: 1:6-7 (Mostly 1:7 for both Day & Night shift)
• EMR: Sunrise
• Charge Nurse/House Supervisor: The Charge Nurse takes a full patient assignment.
• Nurse Aides: CNA's: Usually have 4-6 CNA's per shift. Ratios 1:10-12
• Remote tele as needed - Monitored on a different unit
• RN's are not required to read strips; however, if they have experience reading strips, they can also read them.
• Drips: Heparin; very rare Lasix but not continuous; PCAs w/ MSO4; maybe an Ativan gtt; no cardiac gtts or insulin
• Vents: Bipap (intermittent only), Cpap, High Flow
• Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: Hospitalist in-house 24/7, Intensivist in the ICU 24/7, Also have residence in-house 24/7
• IV Team: IV team in-house 24/7 & also have a PICC team. RN's assess their patient's IV sites but do not start their own IV's on this unit. IV Team starts all IV's.
• RT 24/7: RT is in-house 24/7
• Pharmacy 24/7: Pharmacy is in-house 24/7 - Pyxis
• Common diagnosis/Types of patients: All ortho post-ops, all basic neuro post-ops (laminectomies, discectomies, spinal fusions), all other general post-ops (gallbladders, mastectomies, sleeve gastrectomy's, infections, other medical dx: COPD, CP, pneumonia, cellulitis, etc.), Hemodialysis is on this floor. It is HIGHLY preferred travelers have experience with peritoneal dialysis.

Additional Details
• *ALL SUBMITTALS MUST INCLUDE AN UNEXPIRED COPY OF THE CANDIDATES DRIVER'S LICENSE*
• Weekend Requirement: Every-other-weekend (3 weekends out of a 6 week schedule)
• Holidays: Work into the holiday rotation schedule
• Scrub Color: RN's: Navy blue top & bottom, navy scrub jackets, no hoodies; CNA's: Grey
• Floating: Other MedSurg, MedSurg/Oncology units, etc. Could possibly float to IMC but would be assigned MedSurg overflow. No gtts.
• Floor specific orientation: General hospital orientation, then 2 full shifts on the unit
• If a patient is being testing for COVID they will usually remain on this unit, unless it is going to take longer for result - then they will transfer the patient to the COVID unit;12 hr days, weekends as scheduled

Compensation Information:
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