TravelNurseSource is working with Cynet Health to find a qualified Med/Surg RN in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 57117!
Job Title: Registered Nurse - Renal Medical Surgical
Profession: RN (Registered Nurse)
Specialty: Renal - Med Surg
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: Rotating Shifts (12-Hour Day/Night Rotate)
Hours per Shift: 36 hours per week
Experience: Minimum of 2 years
License: Registered nurse licensed in South Dakota
Certifications: BLS Certification
Must-Have: Minimum of 1-year experience working with surgical patients
Description:
The surgical renal unit is a small, family-oriented unit.
Gain exceptional nursing skills and become part of a work family.
This 19-bed telemetry unit provides services to complex patients.
Diagnoses include acute and chronic renal failure, hypertension, diabetes, head and neck cancer, thyroid cancer, heart failure, chronic wounds, and paraplegia or quadriplegia.
The team provides care for kidney transplant recipients and living donors.
An outpatient infusion room is available for new kidney transplant patients.
Care of critically ill adult patients occurs in separate critical care units.
The units are staffed 24/7 with in-house intensivist services.
Daily coverage by specialty services is provided for pulmonary, surgical, and neurocritical care.
The nursing staff collaborates closely with the intensivist and other members of the interdisciplinary team.
Responsibilities include planning and coordinating patient care, assessment, education, triage, and various nursing interventions.
Collaboration with colleagues, including physicians, is essential to plan, implement, and evaluate care.
Empathetic care for patients is provided during all stages of preventive services, health maintenance, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up.
Demonstrate competency and use comprehensive nursing expertise.
Dress code includes navy blue scrubs.
Equipment utilized includes computerized charting, medication systems, PCA and epidural pumps, and telemetry.