Med Surg RN
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Parkview Regional Medical Center

RN Centralized Registry Float

Location

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Schedule

• Nights
• 12-hour shifts
• 36 hours per week
• 3 weekend shifts in 4 weeks

Contract Length

• 13 weeks

Required Qualifications

• IN State or compact RN license
• BLS through AHA
• At least 1.5 years of Level 1, Level 2, or tertiary experience
• At least 1 year of experience at a like-sized facility (450+ beds)

Unit / Assignment Details

• General medical and surgical units
• Patient ratio: 1:5-6
• Floats only to other medical units
• Jump Start orientation includes 1 day of general hospital orientation and approximately 5 days of nursing orientation

Clinical Focus

• General medical-surgical nursing care
• Common patient populations include chronic illness, GI issues, infections, neurological issues, and mental health disorders
• Procedures include colonoscopies, thoracentesis, paracentesis, bronchoscopy, and minor surgeries

Skills / Equipment

• Assessments
• Care planning
• Inter-professional communication
• EHR use
• IV pumps
• Wound vacs
• Heat/cooling pads
• Feeding pumps
• Feeding tubes
• Chest tubes
• Heparin and insulin drips
• IV therapy management
• Epic
• Pyxis machines
• Accucheck blood glucose
• Hospira IV pumps
• SCDs
• Telemetry monitoring

Additional Notes

• Caribbean Blue scrubs
• 8 hours of non-billable orientation
• Client may call off or cancel up to 24 hours per 13-week assignment
• Local clinicians within 50 miles are subject to a 12% reduction in rate