Travel Nurse RN - ED - Emergency Department
Santa Maria, California
Marian Regional Medical Center

ACLS

PALS

CA License

NIHSS (required for stroke care)

Candidates must have 2 years of experience or more, travel experience is preferred.

Floor specific orientation: 3 shifts

Weekend Requirement: every other

Holidays: they will work them in with perm staff rotation

- Fast track: 4 bed fasttrack

- # beds/trauma bays: 32 beds and 6 treatment chairs

- # Psych/seclusion rooms: room set up specifically for psych but they have a large population of psych that they use other rooms for psych

- # patients per day: 208 per day, up to 317 depending how busy they are

- Ratios: 1 to 4, 1 to 1 or 2 if ICU status

- EMR: Cerner

- Charge Nurse: yes

- Nurse Aides/Paramedics: ER techs - CNAs and EMT's

- Security/Patient sitters: CNAs are patient sitters if needed, security is in lobby if needed

- Scrub Color: navy

- Tele/Monitor Techs: Phillips -nurses must read and interpret strips, they have a unit clerk that functions like a monitor tech

- Vents: Yes

- ED Physicans/Mid-Levels: MD's and midlevels used

- Lab Draws: nurses are not allowed to do lab draws

- IV Team: No

-RT 24/7: Yes

- Pharmacy 24/7: Yes

- Floating: they will have to float to Arroyo Grande to work their ER

- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: a lot of trauma, 30% of population is peds, stroke, STEMI's, etc.