PACU RN
St. Louis, MO
Travel Nurses, Inc.
5x8 hrs

PACU RN Travel Contract

Location

• Saint Louis, Missouri

Contract Length

• 13 weeks

Schedule

• Day shift, 4x10 hours
• 12:00–22:30
• No holidays, no call, no weekends

Setting

• Short-term acute care hospital
• Level I Trauma Center
• Magnet and teaching hospital
• PACU with occasional floating to PACU or PreOp units

Patient Population

• Adults, occasional adolescents, and geriatric patients
• Post-op recovery for neurosurgery, ENT, plastics, orthopedics, thoracic, vascular, trauma, general, colorectal, GYN, urology, electrophysiology, interventional radiology, and transplant cases

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Missouri
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• PACU - Post Anesthesia Care (2 years of experience)
• PACU - Post Anesthesia Care experience within the last year
• BLS - Basic Life Support issued by American Heart Association
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support issued by American Heart Association
• Critical care experience
• Dysrhythmia recognition and management
• Blood product administration
• Intravenous vasopressor administration
• Intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring
• Care of ventilated patients
• Experience with Epic

Skills

• Dysrhythmia recognition and management
• Blood product administration
• Phlebotomy
• Starting IVs
• IV vasopressors
• ICP monitoring
• Care of ventilated patients

Additional Notes

• First-time travelers accepted
• Local candidates are not accepted; home address must be at least 75 miles from the facility
• No more than 7 days of requested time off
• Night shift staff would need to learn pre-op workflow
• The unit has 38 patient bays and an average daily census of 70–90
• Unit has its own PCT/transport team