Travel Nurse RN - Med/Surg - $1,737 per week in Charlotte, NC

Job Title: Registered Nurse (RN)

Job Specialty: MedSurg/Tele

Job Duration: 13 weeks

Shift: 7a-7p, Day

Guaranteed Hours: 36.00 per week

Experience: 2 years required, Med/Tele experience preferred

License: Current RN license or temporary license as a Registered Nurse Petitioner in the state of residency; or if declaring a National License Compact (NLC) state as the primary state of residency, meet the licensure requirements there; Non-NLC states require a current RN license in the state where the RN works.

Certifications: Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS)

Must-Have: English proficiency (Speak, Read, Write)

Job Description

• Collect data relevant to the healthcare consumer's health or the situation.
• Analyze assessment data to determine actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Identify expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.
• Develop a plan that prescribes strategies to achieve expected, measurable outcomes.
• Implement the identified plan, coordinate care delivery, and employ strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
• Delegate elements of care to appropriate healthcare workers in accordance with applicable legal or policy parameters or principles.
• Evaluate progress toward achievement of goals and outcomes.
• Practice in a manner that is consistent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
• Communicate effectively in all areas of practice.
• Collaborate with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice.
• Demonstrate leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.
• Seek knowledge and competence reflecting current nursing practice and promote futuristic thinking.
• Integrate evidence and research findings into practice.
• Contribute to quality nursing practice.
• Evaluate one's own and others' nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.
• Utilize appropriate resources to plan, provide, and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective, and fiscally responsible.
• Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
• Practice ethically.
• Promote shared governance or facility decision-making activities, developing and nurturing research to positively affect clinical outcomes and promotion.
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Position requires walking, standing, sitting, lifting, reaching, stooping, bending, pushing, and pulling.
• Must be able to lift and support 35 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment, and supplies.
• Requires intact senses of sight, hearing, smell, and touch; finger dexterity.
• Must possess critical thinking ability and concentration.
• Must respond quickly to changes in patient and/or unit conditions.
  
  

Schedule Notes

• Primary work attire: Navy blue scrubs.
• Requested time off not approved for Halloween 10/31/2024; only one holiday off between Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas, and New Year's Eve.
• Valentine's Day 02/14/2025 not approved for requested time off.