Travel Nurse RN - Cardiac Cath Lab - $3,040 per week

Company: Valley Medical Center
Location: Renton
Posted on: October 30, 2024

Job Description:

• Certification Details
• ACLS, BLS, NIHSS
• Required Certifications: BLS, ACLS, NIHSS
  • Job Details
  • Hospital in Renton, WA is seeking a Special Procedures/Cardiac Cath Lab RN for a 13-week assignment.
  • The traveler will support sedation in Xray, CT and Ultrasound, as well as assisting on IV starts in pre-procedure area.
  • Strong candidates will be able to circulate, sedate, monitor, and assess.
    • Job Requirements
    • Experience or 'Must have' skills: Need Ventilator and pressor management skills for procedure rooms.
    • Unit/Department specific orientation: 2 weeks of orientation depending on traveler experience.
    • Nurses will have buddy call for the first 3-4 weeks.
      • Schedule Information
      • Pre-procedure and Recovery: 4 ten-hour shifts, noon to 10:30, 2pm - 12:30am.
      • Call only every 5th weekend during the day.
      • Procedural nurses, 3 12's 7-7, option for 4 tens 9-7:30.
      • On call one night a week.
      • Every 3rd or 4th weekend.
      • Everyone takes about 1 holiday a year, rotated in with perm staff.
      • Mandatory call/standby requirement: Yes
      • Call response time: Procedure nurses and techs 30 minutes, recovery nurses 45 minutes.
        • Additional Details
        • # suites/labs: 3 Rooms, a 4th currently being built (set to be complete in March).
        • Hybrid OR room, nurses also go to CT, Ultrasound and MRI for procedures and sedations.
        • # cases per day on average: 17 for Cath Labs, 22-23 including all other areas and procedures.
        • Common diagnoses/Types of patients: Vascular, Neuro, EP, Cardiology, IR, Cath Lab - diagnostic and intervention, rotablator and shockwave.
        • Next year will have impella. Diagnostic right hearts to prep for structural at other facilities.
        • IR: ports, G tubes, drains, nephrostomies, biliary drains. Embolizations and coiling are a lot less frequent.
        • Dialysis lines common. Other lines.
        • EP: ablations, device implantation, temporary pacemakers, Anesthesia is on every EP case.
        • (EP staff will cover EP cases, travelers will only assist if skills validated by manager).
        • Scrub Color/Dress Code: Provided

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