Excel is seeking highly skilled healthcare professionals for travel assignments across the United States. As a Travel Healthcare Professional, you will have the opportunity to work in diverse healthcare settings, providing essential medical care while exploring new locations and cultures.

Key Responsibilities:
• Provide direct patient care in accordance with healthcare facility policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to ensure comprehensive patient care.
• Maintain accurate patient medical records and documentation.
• Adhere to infection control standards and other regulatory requirements.
• Educate patients and their families on healthcare plans and treatments.

Qualifications:
• Active state licensure in [specify relevant states] (e.g., RN, LPN, PT, OT).
• Minimum [number] years of experience in [specialty].
• BLS/CPR certification (ACLS, PALS, or others as required by specialty).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to adapt to different environments and work independently.

Why Choose Excel Medical Staffing:
• Trusted partner with a proven track record in healthcare staffing.
• Competitive compensation package including hourly wages and stipends.
• Access to a wide range of healthcare facilities and specialties.
• Personalized support throughout your assignment.
• Opportunity to enhance your skills and build a diverse professional portfolio.

Shift: Night 3x12-Hour (18:00 - 06:30)
First Time Travelers NOT accepted
ICU RN: 3x12 only
Ratios: 1:2
Years of experience REQ: 2 yrs
Weekend REQ: Yes, every other
Certs REQ: ACLS, BCLS, NIH required. CCRN preferred.
Is on-call REQ? No
Locals Accepted? No.
Will the clinician float within scope to meet facility needs? Yes
Open to accommodating block schedule? To be discussed
Pending License accepted: No.
IN-STATE LICENSE / REQUIRED CERTS MUST BE IN HAND TO SUB
RTO Restrictions: Must work 2/3 major holidays.

Unit Information:
14 bed ICU with an open heart program and neurosurgeon. Plus general community Med Surg patients. We are a stroke unit, a level 2 trauma unit, EMCO stabilize and ship program, STEMI, Manual Proning, Sepsis, we use IABP and CRRT. We have UST and RRT team.

Hospital Highlights:
• Type of Facility: Short-Term Acute Care
• Total Staffed Beds: 194
• Scrub Color: red top black bottoms
• Charting: Cerner
• Parking Cost: Free
• Effective 11/30/24, IU Health will not allow IN RN s to work at their facilities. **Periop/OR RN s, Allied and Ambulatory RN travelers are exempt from this rule. These IN travelers are allowed to work past the 11/30 deadline.

Skills:
• Care of the patient on ECMO*
• ECMO*
• Impella*
• Nurse driven ECMO protocols*
• Post Cardiac Surgery (directly from the OR)*
• Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD/RVAD)*
• Administration of chemotherapy*
• Neuro Intensive Care Unit
• Surgical Intensive Care Unit
• Interpretation of dysrhythmias
• Management of dysrhythmias
• Management of patient with multisystem organ dysfunction/failure
• Obtain 12 lead EKG/ECG
• Thermoregulation: hypothermia/hyperthermia
• Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG)
• Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP)
• Post Cardiac Surgery (Not directly from the OR)
• Pre/Post Cardiac Cath/intervention
• Pulmonary Artery Line/Swan Ganz monitoring
• Sheath Removal
• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
• Valve Repair/Replacement
• IV insulin protocols
• GI surgery
• Chronic/Acute Renal failure
• CVVHD/CRRT
• Accessing/Managing Ports
• Arterial line management
• Blood Product Administration
• Central line care/management
• PICC line management
• Starting and maintaining IVs
• Continuous IV paralytics/Neuromuscular blockade
• Continuous IV sedation
• Emergency Medications
• Procedural Sedation Administration/Monitoring
• Titrate Cardiac drips
• Titrate Vasoactive drips
• CVA/Acute Stroke management
• External ventricular drain (EVD)
• Hypothermia protocol/Arctic Sun
• ICP monitoring
• Lumbar drains
• Post Craniotomy
• Post Neurosurgery management
• Spinal cord injury
• Traumatic Brain injury
• Assist with management of BiPAP
• BiPAP/CPAP management/maintenance
• Assist with Chest Tube Insertion/Removal
• Care of Ventilated Patient
• High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)
• Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs)
• Suctioning (ETT, NT)
• Ventilator Management
• Infection Prevention
• Isolation Precautions/PPE
• Phlebotomy
• Surgical Wounds with drains/Wound Vac
• Epicardial Pacing Wire Care and Management

Additional Unit Information:
Interdisciplinary Support:
• Physical Therapy
• Respiratory Services
• Interpretation Services
• Radiology
• Social Services
• Rapid Response Teams
• Pharmacy
• Transportation
• Unit Secretary

Patient Diagnoses:
• open heart surgery
• vascular surgery
• STEMI
• stroke post TNK
• hemorrhagic stroke
• thoracic surgery
• respiratory failure
• ventilators
• bipap
• pressors
• Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
• vasopressors
• neurosurgery

Special Procedures/Unit Details:
14 bed non-specialized ICU. The unit is able to flex up to 20 patients if needed. Level 3 trauma center. We get patients referred to us and we send patients to higher level of care. Community hospital that supports a large surrounding area. Intensivist is in house overnight with 24/7 coverage. Closed ICU model. All patients with the exception of neurosurgery are co-managed with ICU physician.

Special Equipment:
• NxStage (CRRT)
• IABP
• Artic Sun Air Tap