Med Surg RN
St. Louis, Missouri
Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Registered Nurse: Medical Surgical (6900 GI/GU)

Overview

• Employment type: Travel/Contract
• Contract length: 16 weeks
• Location: Saint Louis, Missouri
• Setting: Short-term acute care hospital; magnet and teaching hospital; Level I trauma center; 1,266 staffed beds
• Unit: 6900 GI/GU, a high-turnover surgical patient unit that also takes medical overflow
• Shift: Night (4x12 hours), 19:00 to 07:30
• Hours: 12 hours per day, 48 hours per week; can sign for 36 or 48 hours per week; guaranteed 36 hours
• Ratio: 1:4 to 6
• Scrub color: Navy
• Parking: Monthly passes available at additional cost

Patient Population and Unit Details

• Patient diagnoses: Ostomy, colon resection, colon cancer, bladder cancer, GU, medical overflow
• Procedures and care: Foley catheters, continuous bladder irrigation (CBI), TURPS, colorectal protocols, colostomy care, feeding tube care, PCAs, epidurals, and CBIs with different irrigation solutions
• Drips on unit: Heparin, lidocaine (pain only), bicarbonate, bivalirudin, amiodarone (stable, non-titrated; occasionally)

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Missouri
• Med Surg experience (2 years)
• Med Surg experience within the last year
• One completed travel assignment
• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) / Associate Degree in Nursing
• BLS (Basic Life Support) certification
• ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) certification
• Experience with feeding tubes
• Colostomy care experience
• Blood product administration experience
• Central line blood draw experience
• Experience with PICC lines
• Phlebotomy skills
• IV insertion skills
• Experience with titratable or cardiac IV medications
• PCA experience
• Experience with Epic

Schedule and Eligibility

• Weekend requirement: every other weekend
• On-call: not required
• Block schedule: not available
• Float: within service line only, per facility needs
• Pending license accepted
• First-time travelers: not accepted
• Local candidates within 75 miles: not accepted
• Return-to-office restriction: no more than 7 days

Compliance and Credentialing

• Criminal background check (7-year search, including sanctions and exclusion lists), updated quarterly for the sanctions searches
• Drug screen within 1 year of start that cannot expire during the assignment
• Physical exam within 1 year of start
• Tdap vaccine or declination
• Two negative PPD tests (or a T-Spot/Q-Gold within 1 year of start), or a TB questionnaire if the candidate has a history of positive TB
• Measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella immunity documentation (titer, vaccines, or MD statement)
• Hepatitis B declination (vaccine not required)
• Flu vaccine or medical/religious exemption required during flu season (10/01 to 03/31)
• N95 fit test (acceptable models: 3M VFlex 1804 and 3M 1860)
• Two professional references
• Employment application
• Unit-specific skills checklist within 1 year of start
• Unit-specific competency exam, updated annually
• Basic dysrhythmia/EKG competency exam (interpretation and management of dysrhythmias required); must be completed for each new contract
• Nursys license verification and primary source verification of professional license
• Regulatory compliance education and facility orientation modules (about 16 hours, time-sensitive, required for all RNs)
• Facility policies to review and sign: hand hygiene, fingernail policy (non-adherence may result in being sent home from shifts), dress code, latex allergy questionnaire, and confidentiality form
• Photo for badge, taken within 6 months of start
• Government-issued photo ID