Travel Nurse RN - CVICU - $2,766 per week at Valley Medical Center

Renton, WA 98056

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Job Details

Hospital in Renton, WA is seeking a Special Procedures/Cardiac Cath Lab RN for a 13-week assignment.
The traveler will support sedation in Xray, CT and Ultrasound, as well as assisting on IV starts in pre-procedure area.
Strong candidates will be able to circulate, sedate, monitor, and assess.

Job Requirements

Experience or 'Must have' skills: Need Ventilator and pressor management skills for procedure rooms.
Unit/Department specific orientation: 2 weeks of orientation depending on traveler experience.
Nurses will have buddy call for the first 3-4 weeks.

Schedule Information

Pre-procedure and Recovery: 4 ten-hour shifts, noon to 10:30, 2pm - 12:30am.
Call only every 5th weekend during the day.
Procedural nurses, 3 12's 7-7, option for 4 tens 9-7:30.
On call one night a week.
Every 3rd or 4th weekend.
Everyone takes about 1 holiday a year, rotated in with perm staff.
Mandatory call/standby requirement: Yes
Call response time: Procedure nurses and techs 30 minutes, recovery nurses 45 minutes.

Additional Details

# suites/labs: 3 Rooms, a 4th currently being built (set to be complete in March).
Hybrid OR room, nurses also go to CT, Ultrasound and MRI for procedures and sedations.
# cases per day on average: 17 for Cath Labs, 22-23 including all other areas and procedures.
Common diagnoses/Types of patients: Vascular, Neuro, EP, Cardiology, IR, Cath Lab - diagnostic and intervention, rotablator and shockwave.
Next year will have impella. Diagnostic right hearts to prep for structural at other facilities.
IR: ports, G tubes, drains, nephrostomies, biliary drains. Embolizations and coiling are a lot less frequent.
Dialysis lines common. Other lines.
EP: ablations, device implantation, temporary pacemakers, Anesthesia is on every EP case.
(EP staff will cover EP cases, travelers will only assist if skills validated by manager).
Scrub Color/Dress Code: Provided