Travel Nurse RN - Med Surg - $2,016 per week

Bluebird Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN Med Surg for a travel nursing job in Athol, Massachusetts. Job Description & Requirements Specialty: Med Surg Discipline: RN Start Date: ASAP Duration: 13 weeks 36 hours per week Shift: 12 hours, days Employment Type: Travel Bluebird Features and Benefits: Competitive compensation & stipends Weekly Pay Day 1 Health Benefits - Medical, Vision, Dental plan 401k plan with Vanguard Guaranteed Stipends on Hospital canceled shifts Double OT on 48-hour work weeks Paid orientation for onboarding requirements Paid medical requirements by Bluebird Nurse Referral Bonus Program Extension bonuses No off-shore recruiters Dedicated recruiter available 24/7 to assist with all of your travel contract needs Exclusive contract opportunities Government contract opportunities MA - Athol, MA - Registered Nurse, 2nd Floor Med/Surg Unit Job Requirements Minimum Education • Graduate of an accredited school of nursing Minimum Experience • 1 year med-surge experience preferred. • Previous telemetry experience preferred. • Skilled Nursing experience preferred. • Basic Dysrhythmia Course completion within 6 months of hire if no telemetry experience Required Licenses • Current MA RN License • Current AHA BLS certification • Current AHA ACLS certification Essential Functions • Conducts interactions with everyone in a friendly, courteous and respectful manner. • Goes out of his/her way to offer assistance to others. If he/she cannot offer assistance, then finds someone who can. • Advocates to ensure privacy and confidentiality while helping others to maintain awareness. • Maintains a clean and safe hospital. • Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations. • Maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort, and minimize risk and injury. • Ensures compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure. • Complies with the Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy. • Completed all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements in the prior calendar year. • Reports Incidents in a timely and effective manner. • All employees with direct patient contact are responsible for actively engaging in the practice of, monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene. • Assesses (and reassesses), plans, implements, and evaluates nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals. • Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures. • Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patients sense of dignity and positive self-regard. • Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning. • Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary. • Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others. • Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources, reassigns personnel as necessary, recognizes need for emergency intervention, etc.). • Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards. • Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care. • Promotes learning for colleagues and self (e.g. functions as preceptor, instructor, trainer, attends professional development programs, etc.). • Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors/incidents). • Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address. • Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physicians orders, protocols, policies and procedures. • Assesses patient pain level upon admission and as necessary, depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale. • Reassesses effectiveness of pain control and notifies physicians as needed, as well as, documents assessment and patients response to medication. • Responsible for obtaining supporting information and completing required documentation related to medication reconciliation for use by the Attending MD. • Performs pre-admission testing on Med/Surg. patients. • Performs nursing assessment and coordinates ancillary testing for patients undergoing day surgery including performing blood draws and EKG's. • Reviews pre-operative orders and consults with the surgeon and/or anesthesiologist as necessary to assure appropriate tests are ordered per guidelines. • Reviews test results, checks for abnormal results and communicates abnormalities to the surgeon, anesthesiologist and/or primary physician prior to surgery. • Reviews preoperative chart for completeness verifying that all paperwork is present and complete preoperatively, such as consent form, H&P, and lab results. • Provides emotional support to patients undergoing a change in body image and/or activity level due to surgery. • Initiates and documents post-operative phone calls to Med/Surg. patients. Statement of Other DutiesThis document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described. LI-CK1 Bluebird Staffing Job ID 71856. Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined. Posted job title: Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse