Stepdown RN
Morgantown, West Virginia
Ruby Memorial Hospital

RN Stepdown

Location

• Morgantown, West Virginia

Contract Length

• 13 weeks

Schedule

• Nights
• 12-hour shifts
• 48 hours per week

Required Qualifications

• Active BLS certification
• Active ACLS certification
• NIHSS
• Strong MedSurg Stepdown experience
• Ability to titrate drips
• Ability to read strips
• Unexpired driver’s license copy must be included with submission
• Driver’s license address must be outside 50 miles from the facility
• COVID-19 vaccination required

Unit Details

• 32-bed stepdown unit
• Typical patient population includes post-surgical thoracic and medicine patients
• Nurse-to-patient ratios are 1:3 to 1:4
• RN interprets and charts patient rhythm with assessment every 4 hours or more often when titrating medications
• Common drips include Cardizem, Amiodarone, Dopamine, Nitro, Esmolol, Heparin, and Lasix
• No ventilators; BiPAP and tracheostomy patients are seen
• Centralized telemetry is used for rhythm interpretation and EKG strip charting

Scheduling Requirements

• 3 weekend shifts in a 4-week schedule
• Holidays may be required
• No call or standby
• Floating is very rare

Orientation

• 3 shifts of unit orientation

Dress Code

• Royal blue scrubs

Submission Notes

• Only one submission at a time across the WVU system
• Previous permanent employees must have been gone for 2 years
• Previous travelers who completed 1 full year must have been gone for 2 years
• Travel teams must be submitted together in one email
• Up to 2 candidates may be submitted per opening