Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical – Travel – Med Surg

Job Description

Travel Nurse RN – Med Surg | AMN Healthcare Nursing

The Tone:
This is a travel nursing position with AMN Healthcare Nursing, located in Lumberton, North Carolina. AMN Healthcare connects healthcare professionals with facilities across the nation, ensuring vital staffing for quality patient care. This role is crucial for providing direct patient care in a medical-surgical setting, addressing critical staffing needs, and supporting overall hospital operations for a 13-week assignment. This travel assignment offers an opportunity to apply specialized nursing skills while exploring a new location.

The TL;DR
• Role: Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical (MS RN)
• Type: Travel
• Location: In-person, Lumberton, NC
• Pay: $1839.00 – $1933.00 weekly
• Mission: Provide comprehensive medical-surgical patient care, monitor patient conditions, and manage a variety of medical and surgical needs.
• Tech Stack: EPIC, BD Alaris IV Pumps, Omnicell

What You’ll Actually Do
• Patient Care: Provide comprehensive direct patient care for medical and surgical patients, managing conditions such as CHF, Diabetes, COPD, ETOH, IVDA, and post-operative recovery.
• Monitoring: Monitor telemetry patients with remote support from a tele tech, identifying rhythm changes, and managing cardiac care.
• Procedures: Perform essential nursing procedures including IV insertion, trach and chest tube management, NG tube placement and management, feeding tubes, foley placement and management, wound care, and dressing changes.
• Central Lines: Manage central lines, including drawing blood samples from these lines, while phlebotomy handles most peripheral draws.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team including CNAs (with a ratio of 1:8-9), unit secretaries, charge nurses, hospitalists, and in-house RTs to ensure coordinated and efficient patient care.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Registered Nurse (RN) specializing in Medical Surgical (MS).
• Experience: Minimum of 1 year of experience in Medical Surgical; will accept a first-time traveler.
• Skills: BLS certification; CPI or MOAB certification (must have prior to start); IV insertion, trach management, chest tube management, NG Tube placement and management, feeding tubes, foley placement and management, wound care, dressing changes, central line management.
• Bonus: ACLS certification, cardiac rhythm interpretation, previous travel experience.