Position: Emergency Room Nurse
Location: Rapid City, SD
Duration: 3 Months

Required Credentials:

1. ACLS
2. Annual Core Competencies
3. Candidate Confirmation Form
4. Clinical References (2)
5. Color Vision Screening
6. COVID Requirement
7. CPR Certification: BLS
8. Criminal Background Check Report
9. Drug Screen
10. Education Verification
11. Hep B Titers / Vaccine / Declination
12. HIPAA
13. Job Description – Facility
14. JPEG Photo
15. License Verification
16. Medication Exam
17. MMR Titers or Immunizations
18. NURSYS
19. PALS
20. Photo ID
21. Physical
22. Resume
23. Skills Check List
24. TB Testing
25. TDAP
26. TNCC
27. Unit Competency
28. Varicella Titers or Immunization

Additional Info:

General Information:

• 35 bed Acute Care facility
• Beds:
  • ER – 9 treatment spaces – 8 beds and 1 hallway space
  • ICU – 4 beds
  • MedSurg – 20 beds

Minimal Experience: 1.5 years

Will you accept a first-time traveler? Only with 2 years of experience

Travelers must live > 100 miles away from facility

Permanent staff must wait 1 full year to return as a traveler with eligibility to return and/ or internal reference check

Patient Types:

• All ages – traveler will be utilized in all care areas to include ED, ICU and Med Surg
• Sepsis, DKA, ETOH, ARDS, MI, Trauma, Stroke

Patient Ratios:

• ED: 1:3-4
• ICU: 1:1-2 (dependent on acuity/age)
• Med Surg: 1:5 (dependent on acuity/age)

Required Certifications:

• BLS, ACLS, TNCC, PALS, NIHSS (preferred), CPI (preferred)

Required Education:

• Completion of a nursing education program that is approved by a board of nursing; Registered Nurse (RN) - South Dakota Board of Nursing

Skills required:

• General ED experience, critical care experience for ICU holds, Trauma experience
• Comfortability to work all care areas to include ED, ICU and Med Surg

Support on the Unit:

• Charge nurse: 1 (“hospital coordinator”)
• Phlebotomy? Yes
• IV/VAT Team? No
• Resource Nurse: Same as charge nurse
• RT: Yes
• Hospitalist: Yes, with APP coverage at nights

Charting System:

• EPIC

Floating:

• If trained in all then may be floated to ER, MS, &/or ICU

Orientation: (facility and unit)

• 2 days

Scheduling:

• Weekend rotation: Every other
• Will they be on call? No call
• Holiday Expectations: Every other
• Approval of time off? Can approve up to 7 days, traveler must extend contract 1 week for every week that is missed
• No RTO during the Sturgis Bike Rally – first 3 weeks in August each year

Other notes or things you want us to check/verify?

• Scrub Color: Navy Blue
• Free Parking? Yes