Step Down RN
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Travel Nurses, Inc.
3x12 hrs

Step Down Registered Nurse

Overview

• Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Contract length: 13 weeks
• Employment type: Travel/Contract
• Shift: Night, 3x12 hours
• Hours per week: 36
• Unit type: 29-bed stepdown unit; not Tele or ICU, with Tele and Stepdown patients
• Patient ratio: 1:3
• Schedule notes: Every other weekend and holidays if needed
• Floating: Must be willing to float to other Tele floors as needed
• Local candidates: Considered within a 60-mile radius

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Florida
• Stepdown (2 years of experience)
• Stepdown experience within the last year
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support issued by American Heart Association
• BLS - Basic Life Support issued by American Heart Association
• NIHSS
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Experience in a(n) Acute Care or Critical Care setting
• Airway management experience
• Management of dysrhythmias experience
• Central line management experience
• Interpretation of ABGs experience
• Management of patients with multisystem organ dysfunction/failure experience
• Experience with Epic

Clinical Skills

• Airway management
• Dysrhythmia management
• Central line management
• IV drips
• Isolation precautions
• ABG interpretation
• Management of patients with multisystem organ dysfunction/failure

Compliance and Onboarding

• Government-issued photo ID
• E-Verify
• Proof of name change, if applicable
• Background check within 6 months of start
• EPLS/GSA/SAM screening
• HHS/OIG screening
• Education accreditation confirmation
• Education verification
• Transcript or diploma if education verification is unverified
• Florida AHCA Level II fingerprint results
• Medication test/pharmacology competency exam
• Color blind testing
• Competency exam
• Privacy policy
• AHCA affidavit
• Demographic information sheet
• ICU medical module on attaching Spiros to end of primary or secondary set
• Nurses' guide to safely administering IV medication module
• Recognizing impairment in the workplace module
• PPE donning and doffing for COVID-19 module and attestation
• Badge photo
• Data security form
• Online orientation and required modules
• Annual risk management course
• General compliance and ethics training
• Code of conduct module
• Comprehensive emergency management education module
• Preventing and reporting workplace harassment module
• ERASE BSI CLABSI course
• Handling hazardous drugs nursing module
• ICU medical module for building primary set for hazardous 2+3 administrations
• Clinical reference guides module
• Dysphagia and aspiration precautions module
• Stroke and stroke core measures review module
• End of life module
• Procedural sedation adults and pediatrics course
• Compressed gas cylinder safety course
• Formaldehyde course
• Laser safety module
• Hillrom Centrella Smart+ Bed and Progressa Bed in-service videos module
• Plum 360 module
• Pharmaceutical waste training
• Safe injection practices module
• Sepsis core measure module
• Biohazard waste safety module
• COVID-19 questionnaire
• Job description acknowledgment
• Caring for patients with obstetrical emergencies module
• Required request law: organ donation module
• Pharmaceutical services module
• HIPAA privacy training
• Blood administration and anticoagulant therapy course
• VTE initial and annual requirement
• Bedside instrument cleaning and transport
• Best practices for high-level disinfection
• Physical exam
• Fit mask testing
• Negative TB or chest X-ray
• TB questionnaire
• Rubeola immunity
• Mumps immunity
• Rubella immunity
• Hepatitis B immunity or declination
• Varicella immunity or declination
• Drug testing
• Flu vaccination or declination during flu season
• 2 professional references
• Annual skills checklist