Travel Nurse RN - Long Term Care - $2,127 per week

PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center
Ketchikan, AK, United States
$2.1K a week
Full-time

Certification Details

  • Certs REQ : BLS
  • Skills REQ : IV Insertion, PICC Lines
  • First-Timers Accepted : Yes

Job Details

  • LONG TERM CARE RN
  • 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 : 2 years of Nursing home / LTC or Home Health preferred. Travel experience is preferred.
  • Epic REQ? : 1 year of Epic experience is preferred.
  • First-Timers Accepted : Yes
  • Weekend REQ : TBD
  • Guaranteed Hours : 36 per week
  • Top 10 Diagnosis / Procedures : CVA, Dementia, RA, Afib, Hip fx, Parkinsons, BKA, PNA, COPD, BKA, Hunntington's dx
  • Common Equipment : Hoyer lift, SARA lift, tube feeding pump, IV pump
  • 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 LTC’s 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.

Job Requirements

  • 2 years of Nursing home / LTC or Home Health preferred.
  • Travel experience is preferred.
  • 1 year of Epic experience is preferred.
  • Epic was designed as an acute care EMR and has been modified to accommodate LTC; however, the modifications make the charting labor-intensive.

Schedule Information

  • Shift : 3x12 Night (7pm-7 : 30am)
  • Ratios : 8 : 1 days; 13 : 1 nights
  • Weekend REQ : TBD
  • Guaranteed Hours : 36 per week

Additional Details

  • 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.
  • 9 hours ago
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