Travel Nurse RN - Long Term Care
Ketchikan, Alaska
PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center

<li><b>Start Date:</b> 12/16 (4-6 weeks from offer for compliance requirements) IF NOT LICENSED, WILL NEED TO BOOK 10-12 WEEKS OUT TO ALLOW ENOUGH TIME FOR LICENSE TO POST.</li>

<li><b>Shift:</b> 3x12 Days (7am-7:30pm)</li>

<li><b>Ratios:</b> 8:1 days; 13:1 nights</li>

<li><b>Years of Experience REQ:</b> Home Health or LTC exp preferred. Travel experience is preferred.</li>

<li><b>Epic REQ?</b> 1 year of Epic experience is preferred.</li>

<li><b>First-Timers Accepted:</b> Yes</li>

<li><b>Weekend REQ:</b> TBD</li>

<li><b>Certs REQ:</b> BLS</li>

<li><b>Skills REQ:</b> IV Insertion, PICC Lines</li>

<li><b>Is on-call REQ?</b> No</li>

<li><b>Will clinician float within scope to meet facility needs?</b> Rarely</li>

<li><b>Open to accommodating block schedule?</b> TBD</li>

<li><b>Locals Accepted:</b> No</li>

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

<li><b>RTO Restrictions:</b> 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.</li>

<li><b>Guaranteed Hours:</b> 36 per week</li>

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

<li><b>Common Equipment:</b> Hoyer lift, SARA lift, tube feeding pump, IV pump</li>

<li><b>Additional Details:</b> This is an LTC unit; however, since it is the only LTC/Nursing Home in the PeaceHealth system, it functions more like an LTAC or step-down unit to MedSurg. 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 LTCs down south utilize; our Medpass process is a hybrid between a LTC/MedSurg process. Epic was designed as an acute care EMR and has been modified to accommodate LTC; however, the modifications make the charting labor-intensive.</li>

BLS - Basic Life Support

Guaranteed Hours: 36 per week