IMC RN
Springfield, IL
Access Healthcare
3x12 hrs, Days

IMC RN Travel Contract

Role Overview

• Specialty: Registered Nurse
• Setting: Intermediate care / stepdown / PCU
• Schedule: 3x12 day shifts, 6:45 AM–7:15 PM
• Contract length: 13 weeks
• Employment type: Travel/Contract
• Location: Springfield, Illinois

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Illinois
• PCU - Progressive Care Unit (1 year of experience)
• PCU - Progressive Care Unit experience within the last year
• One completed travel assignment
• BLS issued by American Heart Association
• NIHSS
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Interpretation of dysrhythmias
• Management of dysrhythmias
• Use of Rapid Response Teams
• Post Cardiac Angiogram care
• Post MI care
• Pre/Post Cardiac Catheterization care
• Pre/Post Cardiac Surgery care
• Sheath Removal
• TR Band management
• Feeding tube care and management

Preferred Qualifications

• ACLS certification
• Cerner experience
• Teaching hospital experience
• Level I trauma experience

Clinical Experience Needed

• Telemetry, neuro stepdown, PCU/DOU/IMC/stepdown experience
• Cardiac monitoring and emergency response skills, including dysrhythmia interpretation and management, telemetry monitoring, and rapid response support
• Cardiovascular experience including post-cardiac angiogram, post-MI, pre/post cardiac cath, pre/post cardiac surgery, sheath removal, and TR band
• Gastrointestinal experience with feeding tube care and management
• Genitourinary/renal experience with pre/post hemodialysis management and renal failure
• IV therapy/phlebotomy experience including ports, arterial lines, blood products, central lines, phlebotomy, peripheral lines, PICC lines, and starting IVs
• Medication management experience with heparin protocols, cardiac drips, vasoactive drips, PCA, and procedural sedation administration
• Neurological/psychiatric experience with craniotomy, CVA, pre/post neurosurgery, spinal cord injury, and traumatic brain injury
• Orthopedic experience with ortho trauma, peripheral nerve block catheters, and total joint replacements
• Plastic surgery experience with skin grafts and surgical drains
• Respiratory experience with ventilated patients, chest tubes, CPAP/BiPAP, high-flow nasal cannula, ABG interpretation, nasal cannula, oxygen masks, portable oxygen, non-invasive airway management, and tracheostomy management
• Isolation precautions and wound care/wound vac experience

Work Expectations

• Will float as needed
• No on-call requirement
• Locals accepted with no radius restriction
• Block scheduling may be discussed with the manager
• Ideally no more than 5 days of requested time off

Facility Highlights

• Acute care hospital
• Magnet hospital
• Level I trauma center
• 562 staffed beds

Additional Notes

• Scrub color: any solid color
• Parking permit required; no cost