ED Registered Nurse
Lufkin, TX
Host Healthcare
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

ER (Emergency Room) RN

Overview

• Location: Lufkin, Texas
• Setting: Rural hospital
• Contract length: 13 weeks
• Shift: Nights, 12 hours per day, 36 hours per week

Required Qualifications

• Certifications: ACLS, BLS, TNCC, and ENPC or PALS
• Experience: 2 years of experience in the ED
• Eligibility: Candidates may not have worked full time, part time, or PRN with an affiliated facility of a specified health system within the past year.

Department Details

• Beds and bays: 24 beds and 3 trauma bays
• Fast track: Yes
• Triage: Separate triage area. Travelers occasionally perform triage.
• Holding: No separate holding area. Holds are intermixed within the ER, and ER RNs care for their own holds.
• Psych/seclusion rooms: Does not have separate psych/seclusion rooms.
• Security: In-house security
• Volume: 80–90 patients per day
• Nurse ratio: 1:4
• Common diagnoses: Trauma, stroke, sepsis, CHF, cardiac

Ancillary Support and Staffing

• ED physicians and mid-levels: Both
• Charge nurse/house supervisor: Both
• Nurse aides, paramedics, and patient sitters: Each
• Respiratory therapy: Completes RT equipment, ABGs, breathing treatments, and EGS's
• Monitoring: No monitor techs. RNs must know ECG rhythms.
• Imaging: X-ray and CT are next to the ED.
• Phlebotomy: Performed by a tech or an RN.

Schedule and Expectations

• Scheduling: Self-scheduling. Shifts available: days, nights, 9-9, 11-11, 1-1, 3-3.
• Weekends: Every other weekend
• Holidays: Every other holiday
• Call/standby: None
• Floating: To units the RN is qualified for
• Scrub color: Navy
• Orientation: Unit/department-specific orientation provided; 7p–7a; EOW