RN - Infusion Therapy / Med Surg / Float (Days) Pittsfield

*** Agency Partner Please Note:
Effective Immediately, You MUST include your AGENCY Massachusetts Temporary Nursing Service Agency License (Nursing Pool) license up front with all Berkshire Health System nursing submissions. This license is required by the state of MA in order to staff for temporary needs. If you have questions on this requirement, please visit: We cannot consider your candidate for consideration without this license uploaded with traveler profile. Thank you! CC and AR
THIS NEED IS PRIMARLY FOR INFUSION, BUT TRAVELER WILL FLOAT/WORK MS UNITS WHEN NOT INFUSING.
AT LEAST TWO SPECIFIC INTERVIEW DATES/TIMES OF AVAILABILITY FOR INTERVIEW MUST BE ADDED TO PROFILE - PROFILES WILL NOT BE PRESENTED WITHOUT THIS INFORMATION. "ANYTIME" WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
RATE WILL BE ADJUSTED FOR "LOCAL" TRAVELERS (10% reduction of posted rate if perm address is w/i 50 miles of facility).
To avoid delays in processing, please provide perm address at upload/submission. Thank you!
Unit Size: 20 to 34 beds, depending upon Unit
Patient Ratio: 1:6, typically
Dress Code: Personal scrubs of any color
Requested time off during the course of this assignment MUST be noted and verified at upload. RTO REQUESTS AFTER UPLOAD WILL NOT BE APPROVED!! NO MORE THAN 5 DAYS OF RTO WILL BE ACCEPTED (less is better).
Traveler must be willing to work Thanksgiving (including Friday and weekend after) AND Christmas-New Year Day Block, (If Needed/Scheduled). RTO during these holidays will not be approved. Thanks!
8hrs non-billable orientation
Holiday and OT Multipliers - 1.25%
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
THIS NEED IS PRIMARLY FOR INFUSION, BUT TRAVELER WILL FLOAT/WORK MS UNITS WHEN NOT INFUSING.
2 years current MS experience
INFUSION EXPERIENCE REQUIRED - Please note on profile
Willingness to float- Required
IV Certification Strongly Preferred
Port/Catheter experience REQUIRED
Basic Dysrhythmia course completion STRONGLY REQUIRED
Meditech Expanse experience strongly preferred
BLS AND ACLS MUST BE IN HAND AT PROFILE UPLOAD. Facility will not pend either of these certifications.
AT LEAST TWO SPECIFIC INTERVIEW DATES/TIMES OF AVAILABILITY FOR INTERVIEW MUST BE ADDED TO PROFILE - PROFILES WILL NOT BE PRESENTED WITHOUT THIS INFORMATION. "ANYTIME" WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Profile Requirements:
Work History
Skills Checklist (pertinent to position), current to 1 year
1 Supervisory Signed Reference (from within the past two years of employment)
License/Certifications - Must be uploaded with profile (Current Nursys, BLS and ACLS - Facility will not pend license/certs)
CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
ACLS (AHA)
BLS (AHA)
STATE LICENSE REQUIREMENTS
Massachusetts
ADDITIONAL LICENSE REQUIREMENTS
MA license MUST be in hand at profile upload. Facility will not pend license
ABOUT THE FACILITY
BMC is a 298-bed teaching hospital and is ranked among the safest hospitals in the nation by The Leapfrog Group, which has given BMC Straight "A" grades since the inception of Leapfrog's patient safety program, one of only 42 hospitals in the nation to achieve this honor; and recipient of both the 2017 and 2018Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award.
Berkshire Medical Center offers a full continuum of medical specialties, including anesthesiology, dentistry, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, around the clock neurology and neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, otorhinolaryngology (ear, nose and throat), pathology, pediatrics, psychiatry, radiation oncology, radiology, rehabilitation, substance abuse, cardiac rehabilitation, a sleep lab and others. BMC has a state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging department, with MRI, high-speed CT, ultrasound, x-ray, mammography and more, providing 24-hour service.
BMC has previously been honored by Healthgrades with its DistinguBMC Home.jpgished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence and was one of Healthgrades America's Best Hospitals in 2016. BMC is a not for profit medical center fully accredited by The Joint Commission. As a medical center affiliated with Berkshire Health Systems, Berkshire Medical Center, its Hillcrest Campus and North Adams Campus serve all residents of Berkshire County, Massachusetts and communities in adjacent eastern New York, northwest Connecticut and southwest Vermont.