MS/Tele RN
Lees Summit, Missouri
Saint Luke's East - Lee's Summit

RN/MS/Tele

Overview

• Travel/Contract RN role in Lees Summit, Missouri
• Unit details: average daily census 29; 30 rooms/beds
• Night shift: 3x12 hours, 18:45–7:15
• 36 hours per week
• Contract length: 13 weeks
• First-timers accepted; travel experience is preferred
• Weekend requirement: 4–6 shifts every 6 weeks
• Floating: within service line and to sister facilities as needed
• Local candidates are not accepted; home address must be at least 75 miles from the facility
• No on-call
• No pending license accepted
• No more than 7 days of RTO
• Guaranteed hours: 3 shifts per 13 weeks

Required Qualifications

• Valid Missouri RN license
• Associate of Science in Nursing or Associate Degree in Nursing
• Med Surg / Telemetry experience
• 2 years of Med Surg / Telemetry experience
• Med Surg / Telemetry experience within the last year
• BLS issued by the American Heart Association
• NIHSS
• Government-issued ID
• Criminal background check
• EPLS/GSA/SAM search
• HHS/OIG search
• Missouri EDL search
• Missouri Highway Patrol check
• Primary source verification of professional license
• NURSYS verification
• Unit-specific competency exam
• Dysrhythmia/EKG competency exam
• Medication test/pharmacology competency exam
• Color blind testing
• Employment application
• Skills checklist within 1 year of start
• Two professional references
• Physical exam within 1 year of start
• Fit mask
• Tdap vaccine or declination
• Negative TB screening or chest x-ray
• Drug testing within 1 year of start
• Flu vaccination or exemption during flu season
• HIPAA acknowledgement
• Latex allergy questionnaire
• Confidentiality form
• Regulatory compliance education
• Hep B declination
• SSN & DOB confirmation
• TB questionnaire
• Hand hygiene policy review and signature
• Fingernail policy review and initial
• Dress code policy review and signature
• Orientation modules for RNs and LVNs

Preferred

• Travel experience

Skills and Clinical Experience

• MS/Tele
• Telemetry
• Cardiac telemetry
• PCU/DOU/IMC/Stepdown
• Interpretation and management of dysrhythmias
• Telemetry monitoring on the unit
• Rapid Response/Code team use
• Feeding tube care and management
• Blood product administration
• Central line care/management
• Peripheral line care/management
• PICC line management
• Starting and maintaining IVs
• Heparin protocols
• Cardiac drips without titration
• PCA
• CVA
• Total joint replacements
• Surgical drains
• Chest tubes with Emerson/PleurEvac
• High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)
• Nasal cannula
• Oxygen administration
• Tracheostomy care/management
• Isolation precautions
• Wound care/Wound Vac

Patient Population / Unit Focus

• General intermediate population
• Sepsis / infection
• Wounds
• CHF
• Cardiac arrhythmias
• AMI
• CVA / TIA
• Altered mental status
• ETOH withdrawal
• SI
• General post-op
• Ortho
• Urology procedures
• GI bleed
• PACU bays: 18
• Pre-op bays: 16
• Monthly census: 450–550 surgical patients and 130–180 GI patients

Additional Notes

• Scrub color: Navy
• Charting: EPIC