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

PCU Registered Nurse

Overview

• Travel/Contract role in Lees Summit, Missouri
• 13-week assignment
• Day shift: 3x12 hours, 6:45 PM to 7:15 AM
• 1:5 ratio
• Daily census: 30
• Number of rooms: 30

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Missouri
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Telemetry PCU - Progressive Care Unit (1 year of experience)
• Telemetry PCU - Progressive Care Unit experience within the last year
• Med Surg / Telemetry experience
• BLS issued by American Heart Association
• NIHSS
• Missouri home address must be at least 75 miles from the facility
• No pending license accepted
• First-timers accepted
• Regular floating may be required between departments, units, and facilities as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 years of experience
• ACLS

Schedule

• 8 weekend shifts in the 6-week schedule period, with a combination of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
• Holiday shifts and Charge RN assignments as needed per unit
• No on-call
• No block schedule

Clinical Setting

• MS/Tele
• Telemetry
• Cardiac Telemetry
• Intermediate level of care
• Stroke
• Heart failure
• Respiratory failure
• Pneumonia
• GI bleed
• Syncope
• TIA
• Falls
• COVID
• Flu
• Cdiff
• CBI
• Post-surgical patients needing higher level of care monitoring
• Renal failure
• Cardiac drips
• Heparin

Required Skills

• Interpretation and management of dysrhythmias
• Telemetry monitoring on the unit
• Rapid Response Team use
• Feeding tube care and management
• Pre/Post hemodialysis management
• Renal failure care
• Blood product administration
• Central line care and management
• Peripheral line care and management
• PICC line management
• Starting IVs
• Heparin protocols
• Cardiac drips with no titration
• CVA
• Pre/Post neurosurgery
• Surgical drains
• High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)
• Interpretation of ABGs
• Nasal cannula
• Oxygen face masks
• Non-invasive airway management
• Isolation precautions
• Wound care/Wound Vac

Preferred Skills

• ER Holding
• Neuro Stepdown
• PCU/DOU/IMC/Stepdown
• Accessing ports
• Manage vasoactive drips with no titration
• PCA
• Traumatic Brain injury
• Ortho trauma
• Total Joint Replacements
• Chest tubes-Emerson/Pleur-evac
• External CPAP/BIPAP
• Tracheostomy management

Additional Notes

• Epic charting system
• No more than 7 days of RTO