Travel Nurse RN - Stepdown

IDR Healthcare is seeking a travel nurse RN Stepdown for a travel nursing job in Wheeling, West Virginia.

• Specialty:
  Stepdown
• Discipline:
  RN
• Duration:
  13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift:
  12 hours, rotating
• Employment Type:
  
  Travel

Job Overview

Seeking an experienced Stepdown/Intermediate Care RN for a 13-week travel assignment in a 30-bed Intermediate Care Unit. This unit manages cardiac, post-procedural, and higher-acuity medical patients requiring continuous monitoring and titratable drips.

This is a rotating day/night position with weekend requirements and a 48-hour weekly guarantee.

• Provide care to intermediate care patients with ratios typically 1:5 (goal 1:4; occasionally 1:6)
• Manage cardiac and telemetry patients
• Interpret and respond to telemetry rhythms
• Titrate drips including:
  • Amiodarone
  • Cardizem
  • Dopamine
  • Dobutamine
  • Labetalol
  • Nitro
  • Heparin
  • Occasionally Lasix
• Care for patients with diagnoses including:
  • Chest pain / rule out MI
  • CHF
  • Arrhythmias
  • Post-pacemaker
  • Pre/Post cardiac catheterization
  • Tikosyn therapy management
• Perform groin checks and manage radial bands (no sheath pulling)
• Float to Telemetry or Med Surg as needed (ratios up to 1:6–1:7 in Med Surg, not common)
• Document in Allscripts
• Collaborate with 24/7 in-house hospitalist, intensivist, IV team, RT, and pharmacy

• Active RN license
• BLS
• ACLS
• NIHSS
• Stepdown/PCU experience required
• Must be comfortable titrating cardiac drips
• Must be able to read and interpret telemetry strips
• Must reside 50+ miles from facility (no locals)
• Copy of unexpired driver’s license required at submission
• Any licensing hits must be disclosed at time of submission

• Shift: 12-hour rotating days and nights (7:00 AM – 7:00 PM / 7:00 PM – 7:00 AM)
• Must be ready on unit by 6:45 AM/PM
• 48 hours guaranteed weekly
• Weekend requirements:
  • Fri/Sat/Sun considered weekend
  • Nights: 4 weekend night shifts per 4-week schedule
  • Days: 4 weekend day shifts per 4-week schedule
  • Straight day schedules require minimum 3 night shifts per 4 weeks
• Self-scheduling allowed based on unit needs
• Scrubs:
  Navy blue top and bottom (no hoodies)
• Artificial nails not permitted
• 2 shifts allowed cancellation per 13-week contract
• Strict attendance policy

50-mile radius rule applies (no locals). Driver’s license copy required t have strong cardiac Stepdown experience and drip titration skills. 48-hour weekly guarantee with rotating shift schedule. Travelers may only be submitted to one WVU facility at a time.

IDR Healthcare is an awarding winning staffing firm that believes it is a privilege and awesome responsibility to serve those who selflessly care for others. Our mission is to empower healthcare professionals to achieve their fullest potential both personally and professionally while they create positive change within the healthcare community.

We exercise true grit, tenacity, and authenticity while embracing and ownership mindset to go above and beyond providing healthcare professionals a world class experience.

We are employee owned and our travelers and clinicians earn shares/equity by just completing multiple assignments!

We have been named SIA’s Fastest Growing Staffing Firms and have won Clearly Rated® Best of Staffing for 11 consecutive years! This cements our commitment to clinician satisfaction earning top net promoter scores putting us in the top 2% of agencies in North America!

Help us give back! For every booked assignment, proceeds are donated to St. Jude and Feeding America! Last year we raised over $18,000 for St. Jude and provided over 49,000 meals for children in need.

#Travel Far With IDR and see what it is all about!

• Weekly pay
• 401k retirement plan
• Referral bonus
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• License and certification reimbursement
• Vision benefits