Certification Details
Required Certs to be attached upon submittal : Must have current active compact license. AHA BLS, AHA ACLS and NIHSS.
Job Details
- Stepdown - Days - Deaconess Gateway AUTO OFFER
- Guaranteed Hours : 36 (will accept 48 upon request)
- Primary location : Gateway
- Minimum Experience REQUIRED : 3 years RN experience, 1 full year of stepdown experience, 1 travel assignment, trauma level II experience.
- Patient Population : Cardiac (post cath stents / interventions, pacers), CIWA / BH, Sepsis, DKA, CVA, CPAP, feeding tubes, crani POD 2, GI bleeds, hypothermic / bear hugger.
Job Requirements
- Registered Nurse, Step Down Unit
- Must have current active compact license.
- AHA BLS, AHA ACLS and NIHSS certifications required.
- Recent EPIC charting experience required (will be required to do a checkoff class).
- REQUIRED - Tele / 12-lead EKG interpretation, Initiate / titrate drips (antiarrhythmics, Heparin, Insulin, etc.). Post surgical assessment / care.
NIHSS / Neuro assessments / dysphagia screen.
- PREFERRED - Stable home vents, PleurX drain / pericardial drains, lumber drains, VP shunts, Narcan drips.
- Must have strong assessment and critical thinking skills!
- Hard worker, resilient and manages change well, social candidates.
Schedule Information
- Contract Length : 13 weeks
- Start : 11 / 18 or 12 / 2 - Bi-weekly orientation
- Shift Requirement : 12hr Days 6 : 30-7
- Float Requirement : First to float within skillset. Deaconess Midtown (IN) campus (8 miles apart) & potential to float to Deaconess Henderson (KY 11 miles).
2 HR notice given for cross campus float. Mid-shift float within same campus. Cross campus mid-shift float is unlikely but possible.
Weekend / Holiday Requirement : Three weekends out of every six week schedule. Every other holiday.
Unit Specific Information
- Unit Information : 16 beds; Ratio : Days 1 : 3-4; NOCs 1 : 3-4 (1 : 5 for M / S). CN takes 1 : 2 patient assignment.
- Unit Strengths : Fantastic CNA support, very helpful charge nurses, great teamwork.
Additional Details
- NO LOCAL CANDIDATES (40 MILE RADIUS RULE)
- Unit Information : 16 beds; Ratio : Days 1 : 3-4; NOCs 1 : 3-4 (1 : 5 for M / S). CN takes 1 : 2 patient assignment.
- Unit Strengths : Fantastic CNA support, very helpful charge nurses, great teamwork.
- Scrub Colors : Navy blue scrubs
- Covid-19 Vaccine Not Required Subject to change
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