Travel Nurse RN - Med/Surg - $2,283 per week in Cody, WY

Job Title: Registered Nurse

Job Specialty: Acute Care Unit (ACU)

Job Duration: 13 Weeks

Shift: 12-hour Nights

Guaranteed Hours: 36 per week

Experience: Minimum of 2 years

License: Valid Registered Nursing license

Certifications: Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)

Must-Have: Proficiency in EPIC EMR system, ability to maintain knowledge of medications, telemetry monitoring skills

Job Description

• Administer nursing care to pediatric and adult patients efficiently, safely, and courteously using proper procedures.
• Support patients and their families during the dying process.
• Perform admission assessments and subsequent assessments, completing required documentation.
• Address patients' learning abilities and needs, and develop individual care plans.
• Participate in the daily operation of the Acute Care Unit, including entering orders by computer.
• Attend required in-service, annual education, and mandatory departmental meetings.
• Engage in the collection of data for quality improvement.
• Maintain effective communication across departments, with physicians, peers, the director, and the clinical supervisor.
• Demonstrate the necessary knowledge and skills required to provide age-appropriate care to patients.
• Complete head-to-toe physical and social assessments upon patient admission.
• Develop and daily update a written care plan.
• Initiate cardiac monitoring, oxygen therapy, non-invasive blood pressure, and oximetry; evaluate IV sites and drainage systems.
• Deliver nursing care through assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, interventions, evaluation, and updating of care plans.
• Reassess patients to identify trends requiring intervention or physician reporting.
• Assist patients, physicians, and peers in determining patient goals and care planning.
• Collaborate with Critical Care RNs for telemetry monitoring and maintain basic arrhythmia interpretation skills.
• Operate and manage equipment such as IV pumps, PCA pumps, feeding pumps, telemetry monitors, CPAP and Bi-PAP machines, defibrillators, and Doppler.
• Provide routine patient care, perform blood draws from central lines, and interpret computerized monitor trends.
• Administer medications, calculate doses, and stay updated on current medications.
• Maintain knowledge of patients' status during hospitalization, adjusting and improving recovery approaches as needed with the healthcare team.
• Utilize critical thinking for appropriate patient interventions and document medical and nursing treatments accurately and on time.
• Complete documentation necessary for patient status transitions.
• Assist physicians with patient care, procedures, and ensure orders are fulfilled.
• Follow established procedures for medication administration and narcotics control, utilizing EMAR and patient identification protocols.
• Ensure all necessary consents and records are legally complete and manage time-out procedures.
• Complete incident and error forms as appropriate.
• Educate patients and families, treating them with respect and dignity.
• Practice within established Nursing Standards of Practice, adhere to protocols, and follow healthcare provider orders.
• Holiday coverage is required.
  
  

Please note that candidates must not have a permanent address within a 100-mile radius of the hospital. Effective punctuality is expected for start dates, except in cases related to licensure issues. Position urgency requires a quick start.