Travel Nurse RN - Med Surg
Wheeling, WV
Tact Staff
3x12 hrs

Hospital in WV is looking for Med Surg RN's to help out for 13 weeks. Must have BLS and be willing to float to COVID unit. Call a career consultant today for more information. *ALL SUBMITTALS MUST INCLUDE A UNEXPIRED COPY OF THE CANDIDATES DRIVES LICENSE*

---Unit MedSurg (Cost center 6090)
# beds 52-Beds - all private rooms
Certs BLS is required. NIHSS required Some staff have ACLS - this would be a PLUS!
Ratios 1:6-7 (Mostly 1:7 for both Day & Night shift)
EMR Sunrise
Charge Nurse/House Supervisor The Charge Nurse takes a full patient assignment. He has a Clinical Assistant (CA) 40 hours/week - 1/2 the time is on the floor taking patients & the other 1/2 in the office as the CA
Nurse Aides CNA's: Usually have 4-6 CNA's per shift. Ratios 1:10-12
Weekend Requirement "Every-other-weekend (3 weekends out of a 6 week schedule)
Days is Sat/Sun; Nights is Fri/Sat"
Holidays Work into the holiday rotation schedule
Scrub Color "RN's: Navy blue top & bottom, navy scrub jackets, no hoodies
CNA's: Grey"
Tele Remote tele as needed - Monitored on a different unit
Nurse's Read Strips? RN's are not required to read strips; however, if they have experience reading strips, they can also read them.
Drips Heparin; very rare Lasix but not continuous; PCAs w/ MSO4; maybe an Ativan gtt; no cardiac gtts or insulin
Vents Bipap (intermittent only), Cpap, High Flow
Hospitalist or Intensivist in house "* Hospitalist in-house 24/7
* Intensivist in the ICU 24/7
* Also have residence in-house 24/7"
IV Team "IV team in-house 24/7 & also have a PICC team
* RN's assess their patient's IV sites but do not start their own IV's on this unit * IV Team starts all IV's *"
RT 24/7 RT is in-house 24/7
Pharmacy 24/7 Pharmacy is in-house 24/7 - Pyxis
Shifts "12-Hour Shifts: 0; 1.
Schedules are made out for 6 weeks at a time. Staff is allowed to submit up to 6 requests off per 6-week schedule "
Floating Other MedSurg, MedSurg/Oncology units, etc. Could possibly float to IMC but would assigned MedSurg overflow. No gtts.
Floor specific orientation General hospital orientation, then 2 full shifts on the unit
Common diagnosis / Types of patients "All ortho post-ops, all basic neuro post-ops (laminectomies, discectomies, spinal fusions), all other general post-ops (gallbladders, mastectomies, sleeve gastrectomy's, infections, other medical dx: COPD, CP, pneumonia, cellulitis, etc.
Hemodialysis is on this floor. It is HIGHLY preferred travelers have experience with peritoneal dialysis.
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Additional Notes If a patient is being testing for COVID they will usually remain on this unit, unless it is going to take longer for result - then they will transfer the patient to the COVID unit