Travel Nurse RN - Pain Management

Registered Nurse (RN) | Pain Management
Location: California
Agency:
Pay: $2,900 to $3,001 per week
Contract Duration: 13 Weeks
Start Date: ASAP

• Acute Care
• Ambulatory Care / Outpatient Clinic

• Starting and maintaining IVs
• Nerve Blocks
  • Brachial plexus block
  • Celiac plexus block
  • Cervical epidural
  • Epidural steroid injection
  • Facet joint injection
  • Lumbar epidural block
  • Lumbar sympathetic block
  • Stellate ganglion block
  • Sympathetic nerve block
  • Thoracic epidural

• Telephone triage
• Discharge safety/instruction
• Follow up phone calls

• Epidural analgesia
• Intrathecal analgesia
• Local anesthetics

• Signs and symptoms of toxicity
• Complications of regional anesthesia (motor/sensory block, hemodynamic instability)
• Non‑verbal/non‑cognitive signs of pain
• Opioid safety
• Pain tolerance
• Safety and injury protection

• Hyperalgesia
• Neuropathic pain
• Nociceptive pain
• Visceral pain
• Acute pain
• Breakthrough pain
• Chronic pain

• Medication reconciliation
• Vital sign monitoring

• Numerical rating scales
• Wong‑Baker Faces

• Older adult

• Very skilled with IVs
• Pain Management Experience

5 years experience

Must have true pain management experience, not just giving pain medication in a different setting such as OR or PACU. This unit is a pain management procedural unit.