Travel Nurse RN - Med Surg / Telemetry
Ketchikan, Alaska
PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center

NIH Stroke Certification

Start Date: ASAP (4 weeks from offer for compliance requirements)

Shift: 3x12 Night (7pm-7:30am)

Ratios: 8:1 days; 13:1 nights

Years of Experience REQ: Home Health or LTC exp preferred. Travel experience is preferred.

Epic REQ? 1 year of Epic experience is preferred.

First-Timers Accepted: Yes

Weekend REQ: TBD

Skills REQ: IV Insertion, PICC Lines

Is on-call REQ? No

Will clinician float within scope to meet facility needs? Rarely

Open to accommodating block schedule? TBD

Locals Accepted: No

Pending License Accepted: Yes but w/o an AK license they have to be booked 10-12 weeks out

RTO Restrictions: We do not have any specific requirements around Holidays, however if the traveler is here for more than one recognized holiday we would ask them to work one of the holidays.

Guaranteed Hours: 36 per week

Top 10 Diagnosis/Procedures: CVA, Dementia, RA, Afib, Hip fx, Parkinsons, BKA, PNA, COPD, BKA, Huntington's dx

Valid state licensure/certification as required for services being performed

We do not take trach patients, acute rehab, TPN, Bi-PAP, etc.

We use a Pyxis medication system to load our Work Stations on Wheels.

We DO NOT USE MedPacks which is what a lot of the LTC’s down south utilize, our Medpass process is a hybrid between a LTC /MedSurg process.

Traveler must review the orientation manual prior to start.