Travel Nurse RN - Med Surg
Elizabethtown, KY
Integrated Healthcare Services
3x12 hrs, Nights

Job Title: RN-MedSurg
Location: Elizabethtown, KY

Job Summary: The Registered Nurse (RN) implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness. Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research as well as hospital and department policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines. Clinical decision-making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process, critical thinking, and creativity. Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines. The RN is responsible for coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care activities on the unit, including nursing rounds, assessments, treatments, facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities, patient and family-centered education, care coordination, and individualized treatment planning.

Required Qualifications:

• ADN or ASN degree.
• Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the applicable state.
• BLS certification.
• No prior experience required.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with other care team members.
• Proficiency in computer systems and applications or ability to be trained.
• Ability to assess age-specific patient safety issues and implement appropriate safety devices for all patients.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BSN degree.
• Previous nursing experience.