Travel Nurse RN - Orthopedics - $1,818 per week at Health Creighton University Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68197
About the Job
- Certifications: BLS required, ACLS preferred.
Certification Details
- Facility in Eastern Nebraska is looking for several traveling Med-Surg nurses. The hospital is looking for both day and night shift coverage.
- The shift will be twelve hours.
- 13-26 Week Contacts.
- 36-48 hour guarantees.
Job Details
- Shifts are 12 hours long.
- Day shift starts at 0630 and ends at 1900.
- Night shift starts at 1830 and ends at 0700.
- Self scheduling is an option but the facility will approve a limited amount of block scheduling.
- Every other weekend is required.
- 2-3 Holidays from Thanksgiving to New Years are required.
- Floating to other medical surgical areas or units with MedSurg patients waiting for a MedSurg bed is required.
Schedule Information
- # of Beds in the unit: 55.
- Nurse to Patient Ratios: 1:5-6.
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: MedSurg/Tele includes joint replacements, fractures, colon resections, and more.
- Charge Nurse on each shift: Yes and takes an assignment.
- Nurse aids/patient care techs on this unit: Yes, with ratios of 1:10-20.
- Tele/Monitor Techs: Present and interpret while RNs should maintain some tele awareness.
- Orientation period: 2 days of unit/department-specific orientation.
Unit Specific Information
- ACLS Preferred, BLS.
- Department: Med Tele / Ortho RN - 4th Floor North & South
- # of Beds: 55.
- Nurse:Patient Ratios: 1:5-6.
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients include joint replacements, fractures, colon resections, COPD exacerbation, prostatectomy, cellulitis, sepsis, ortho trauma, GI bleeds, pneumonia, failure to thrive.
- RN's required to titrate drips: Heparin, lidocaine, and ketamine.
- Common titratable &/or set rate drips: PCA pumps.
- Charge Nurse on each shift takes assignment: Yes.
- Nurse aids/patient care techs on this unit with ratios of 1:10-20.
- Tele/Monitor Techs interpret while RNs should have some tele awareness.
- Scrub Color/Dress Code/Scrubs: Navy Blue.
- Mechanical lifts in every other room.
- Focus on hourly rounding and responsiveness.
- Multiple discharges and admissions in one day.
- Successful nurses manage the busyness of the day, have good attendance, are team players, friendly, compassionate, and patient-first oriented.
- They serve patients of all cultures on this unit including Spanish, Karen, Burmese.
- Radius Rule: 50 miles, candidates may not be part of any facility associated with CommonSpirit, including CHI and/or Dignity.
- RTO needed upfront (7 or less days per 13 week contract). Additional RTO will not be approved after submissions.
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