Highlights
Experience in physical assessment, medication administration, wound care, infection control, IV therapy, post-operative care, patient education, and telemetry monitoring. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | East Elmhurst, NY |
| Industry | All |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.primestaffingnyc.com/ |
Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN Med Surg for a travel nursing job in East Elmhurst, New York.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Med Surg
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: 8 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
Job Title: Registered Nurse (RN) – Med/Surg
Facility: NYC Health + Hospitals – Correctional Health Services
Location: 1500 Hazen Street, Rikers Island, East Elmhurst, NY 11370
Start Date: 10/26/2026
End Date: 12/19/2026
Schedule: 3 days/week, 11.5 hours/day
Weekly Hours: 34.5 hours
Required Qualifications:
- Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) from an accredited institution.
- Active New York State RN license with primary source verification.
- AHA BLS certification.
- Minimum 2 years of Med/Surg experience.
- Most recent Med/Surg experience must be within the past year.
- Experience in physical assessment, medication administration, wound care, infection control, IV therapy, post-operative care, patient education, and telemetry monitoring.
- IV insertion and phlebotomy skills.
Preferred:
- EPIC EMR experience.
- AHA ACLS is required for Queens only; confirm whether it applies to this specific assignment.
Responsibilities:
- Assess patients and implement individualized nursing care plans.
- Administer medications and perform IV therapy, catheter insertion, and wound care.
- Monitor vital signs, telemetry, and adverse medication reactions.
- Provide post-operative care and patient education.
- Maintain accurate medical records and collaborate with the healthcare team.
Work Setting: Correctional Health Services – Rikers Island, NYC.
About Prime Staffing
At Prime Staffing, we understand the importance of finding the perfect fit for both our clients and candidates. Prime Staffing utilizes a unique matchmaking approach, providing the most qualified contingent staffing to our clients, and the most competitive contracts to our workforce. Our experienced team takes the time to get to know both our clients and candidates, their needs, and preferences, to ensure that each placement is a success.
We offer a wide range of staffing services including temporary, temp-to-perm, and direct hire placements. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
About Company
Prime Staffing is one of New York's leading staffing firms specializing in temporary and full-time/permanent placements across multiple industries including; healthcare, business, consulting, finance, legal services, entertainment, media, information Technology(IT) and retail.
Prime Staffing is certified by The Joint Commission for its compliance, and integrity, in supplying superior healthcare staffing services to many of the finest healthcare organizations in the country. In addition to its impeccable reputation for providing travel and per diem health care staffing, Prime has become an integral partner in staffing some of the most prestigious business organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the country including multi-national bank and investment firms, international business consulting firms, global law firms and some of the most prominent media and entertainment outlets.
Prime's success and rapid growth is direct result if its most basic founding principle-provide our clients with the most experienced and qualified employees and, likewise, provide our employees with the best jobs at the top organizations in their respective professional disciplines.
Prime Staffing is a high-energy company with a corporate culture that embraces innovation, new technology and personalized customer service. We are confident in our ability to serve you professionally by placing esteemed and experienced individuals. Our continuous expansions enables us to adapt to the continuously changing needs of our clients and employees. Through our team of seasoned professionals we maintain respect, integrity and superiority in all aspects of our business.
At Prime, we work diligently to recognize your objectives and create programs to meet them. We believe that ardent customer service is an essential component to remaining at the forefront of a competitive marketplace. Prime utilizes its expertise, and decades of combined experience in the industry, to continuously improve, implement cutting-edge programs and maintaining our position in the market as one of the fastest growing firms in the Tri-State area.
It is our goal to build long-term relationships with clients and employees based on a foundation of trust, mutual respect and our expertise in the field of staffing. We guarantee dependability, consistency and security in all aspects of operation. Prime Staffing is the Superior Staffing Solution.