ER RN
Lee's Summit, Missouri
Saint Luke's East - Lee's Summit

ER

Overview

• Travel/Contract RN role in Lees Summit, Missouri
• Day shift: 3x12 hours, 10:00–22:00
• Ratios: 1:4
• Start times vary: 10a, 11a, and 12p
• Guaranteed hours: 3 shifts per 13 weeks
• Community hospital with 240 beds and 32 rooms
• Scrub color: Navy
• Charting: EPIC

Required Qualifications

• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Valid RN license in Missouri
• ED - Emergency Department (2 years of experience)
• ED - Emergency Department experience within the last year
• One completed travel assignment
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support issued by American Heart Association
• BLS issued by American Heart Association
• PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support issued by American Heart Association
• NIHSS
• Experience working with Cardiac patients
• Experience with arterial lines
• Blood Product Administration
• Experience with central line management
• Chest tube insertion/management
• CPAP/BiPAP
• Interpretation of ABGs
• Intubation
• Experience with ventilator management
• Continuous IV paralytics
• First-timers not accepted
• Weekend coverage required every third weekend, or 8 weekend shifts in the 6-week schedule period
• No more than 7 days of RTO
• Home address must be at least 75 miles from the facility
• Pending license not accepted
• Must be able to float within scope to all SLHS Metro EDs, with regular floating between departments, units, and facilities as needed

Preferred

• Near drowning experience

Clinical Experience / Skills

• Pediatrics: abdominal pain, asthma, burns, epiglottitis, head injury, hyperglycemia, identifying and reporting abuse, infections, mental/behavioral health conditions, poison ingestion, respiratory infections, seizures, sickle cell crisis, skin disorders, urinary tract infections
• Psychiatric: acute psychosis, drug overdose, managing violent behavior, psychiatric hold, suicidal patient
• IV therapy/phlebotomy: arterial line management, blood product administration, central line care/management, phlebotomy, starting IVs
• Respiratory: chest tube insertion/management, CPAP/BiPAP, interpretation of ABGs, intubation, ventilated patients
• Medications: continuous IV paralytics, continuous IV sedation, emergency medications, IV vasopressors
• Neurological: CVA
• Work settings: General Emergency Department-Combined Adult/Pedi, STEMI Certified Facility, Stroke Certified Facility
• Cardiac monitoring and emergency response: interpretation and management of dysrhythmias, management of patient with multisystem organ dysfunction/failure, obtain 12 lead EKG
• Professional topics and skills: isolation precautions, triage
• Orthopedics: manage/apply splints

Additional Notes

• On-call not required
• Block scheduling not accepted
• Holiday shifts and Charge RN assignments may be required as needed per unit