Travel Nurse RN - ED - Emergency Department
Huntersville, NC
Tact Staff
3x12 hrs

Travel rate is available for local travelers if their start date is on or before 12/16/2024.

### RTO after booking is NOT allowed and is NOT allowed to be worked out onsite. Any call offs or additional RTO on unit, could possibly turn into a Cancel and DNR ###

REQUIRED SKILLS / CERTS / EXP:
Minimum Years of Experience: 5 YEARS ED EXPERIENCE - Screen 3 - 4.5 Years
Traveler Experience: Accepts 1st time travelers
Locals Accepted / Rate Difference: Yes
Skills: IV Start, Triage, Telemetry, Conscious Sedation, Interpretation of dysrhythmias, Management of dysrhythmias, Procedural Sedation Administration
Certs: ACLS, BCLS, NIH, PALS, and MOAB (facility will offer MOAB class)

PREFERRED SKILLS / CERTS / EXP:
Skills: critical care patients, trauma, triage, and boarding inpatients
Certs: ENPC and TNCC

JOB DETAILS:
Target Ratios: 1:4 - assignments flex up and down based on acuity
36 Hours ONLY can be offered.
Unit will accept contracts from 13+ weeks up to March 15, 2025 (hard stop) to get the Unit through the Holidays!
Shift: 12 Hour NIGHTS; 18:45 - 07:15
***RTO: 7 days MAX for Aya Auto Offer***
Float Requirement: NONE
Weekend Requirement: This is every other weekend – Sat/Sun

PATIENT DIAGNOSES: Community hospital setting in Northern Mecklenburg County.

SPECIAL PROCEDURES / UNIT DETAILS:
Stroke certified- we give t-Pa, TNK, and transfer to PMC.
Chest pain certified- only walk-in STEMI. Transfer to PMC cath lab for intervention.
No trauma services, transfer to PMC.
No dialysis services, transfer.
We do not admit pediatrics, transfer.
We care for the entire age spectrum.
We have nurses and CNA's, MUR adn Paramedics. We have ED MD's and MLP's.
Dedicated charge nurse 24/7.
Can be overcapacity in house, thus ED MSU boarding occurs.
Our cath lab performs intervention onsite
paramedics in our department

SPECIAL EQUIPMENT:
Alaris IV pumps
Scanning for medications and lab specimens

UNIT SYSTEMS: Pyxis, EPIC

SCHEDULING TYPE: Per Unit Needs

UNIT ORIENTATION: 2- 12 hour shifts of orientation on the unit;
Hospital Orientation week one; traveler must be available for classes each day.

SCRUBS: navy and/or white

*** INTERNAL NOTES ***
Must pass EKG Testing prior to start for this specialty