Tact Staff is seeking a travel nurse RN Med Surg for a travel nursing job in Marianna, Florida.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Med Surg
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours
- Employment Type: Travel
MedSurg RN position available in small 88 bed hospital near Panama City Beach Florida and Tallahassee. 28 bed MedSurg.
Midshift (11a - 7p), Friday-Friday, 8 on / 6 off, Friday - Friday, 72 hours guaranteed each 2 week pay period. No float, possible call.
FL license and BLS. ACLS & PALS not required but preferred.
For more information, please contact a recruiter at Medical Solutions at .
MedSurg/Tele RNs
Location: Jackson Hospital is centrally located, near Panama City Florida, 50 miles from the beaches.
4250 Hospital Drive
Marianna, FL 32
BDE: Bryan Baumgart
Hospital of beds: Small community healthcare system, licensed for 100-beds, usual occupancy is around 88-beds. They are constantly growing & expanding.
Trauma Level: Non-Trauma
Teaching Facility: FL Stat Medical program always have med students & local nursing school
Testing required: No additional on-site testing
IV pumps: Baxter Sigma
Cardiac Monitors: Neon Kohden
Med dispensing system: Omnicell
EMR: CPSI - Evident Thrive (They feel their EMR is really good & easy to learn.)
General Orientation: Travelers will receive a pre-orientation packet containing policies/procedures, etc.
Actual orientation is 1 day
Parking: Parking by the ER is free for staff, about 100 yards to the door
Cafeteria: Open 7am -6 pm. Cafeteria is managed by a restaurant chain called Morrison's. The food they serve here is really good. NOT your typical cafeteria food.
Special Notes:
1) Clocking in & out using the hospital system is required. Travelers still need to have their supervisors sign their time cards & send a copy to their recruiter.
2) Housing available in Dothan, Suites for approximately $200/Week. Also could try Chipley.
Unit MedSurg/Tele & PCU
(NOTE: PCU is not currently included in these notes because that unit has turned into ICU Overflow due to COVID)
beds The numbers of bed vary around 28 (can usually hold 25 but had to prepare for a surge due to COVID so they can go up to 28)
Certs & Experience Requirements BLS is REQUIRED
ACLS is PREFERRED
Candidates MUST have 1 year of experience in the specialty with some previous travel experience required (Therefore, candidates would need at least 15 - 18 months of experience to be considered for this unit)
Ratios Ratios for MedSurg are usually 1 to 6, MAX of 1 to 7 MAX. Manager said it would be very rare if they had 1 to 7 & it would maybe only be 1 nurse w/ 7, the rest would have 6.
When things return to normal, ratios in the "clean stepdown" would be PCU staffing ratios which would be 1 to 4.
EMR CPSI - Evident Thrive (They feel their EMR is really good & easy to learn.)
Charge Nurse Days has a charge nurse,
Evening sometimes has a charge nurse,
Nights does not have a charge nurse. They have a "senior nurse" on nights.
Nurse Aides PCTs. The manager said that she usually overstaffs with PCTs - Usually 4 PCTs for 24 patients, depending on the census.
Weekend Requirement Weekend requirement is every other weekend but the manager would consider someone who wants to work more weekends. Weekend shifts are Sat/Sun for all shifts.
Holidays Holidays they would work travelers into the perm staff holiday rotation
Scrub Color Navy is preferred but black or gray is fine
Tele Tele is monitored remotely in the ICU, but the Tele boxes show the patients rhythm.
Nurse's Read Strips? No - They do not require MedSurg/Tele nurses to read & interpret strips
Drips Insulin, Cardizem, & Amiodarone. They do titrate per protocol but this is vary rare. The titration protocol is hanging on the wall. They would not assign travelers patients with drips unless they had prior experience with drips, therefore experience titrating drips is NOT required.
Vents Occasional Cpap, BiPap, or High Flow O2
Hospitalist or Intensivist in house ER Dr. is in house 24/7 for emergencies
Physician groups cover their own patients after hours. There is 1 physician on call for Family Practice, 1 physician on call for Internal Medicine, & 1 Surgeon on call
IV Team No IV Team. There are several staff that are PICC & Midline certified that can assist with difficult IV sticks.
Vents/RT 24/7 RT is In-house 24/7 - They manage all vents (but there wouldn't be any vents on this unit) occasionally Cpap or Bipap. RT does all the EKGs, breathing treatments, & ABGs
Pharmacy 24/7 Pharmacy is not 24/7 - Omnicell
Shifts Perm staff does 8 Hour Shifts. Their biggest need is for evening shift from 3p-11p; however, the manager would consider someone doing 12's if they would agree to work 11a-11p. The first 4 hours from 11am - 2pm they would help out as the "admission nurse", get finger sticks, vitals, etc. then they would take a patient assignment from 3pm - 11pm. The other 12 hour option would be nights from 7pm - 7am.
Floating All travelers are required to float to PCU; however, w/o PCU experience they would only assign patients within their skill set.
NOTE: The manager of this unit states that everyone takes turns floating, including perm staff & travelers.
Floor specific orientation 1 shift - will get set-up with computer log-in, ID Badge, sit with the Charge Nurse for a while, go over their charting system, learn how to do a new admission, discharges, etc. Then they go with a floor nurse to train on medication scanning, routine, etc. The next scheduled shift they would b
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