Travel Nurse Job Description
Travel nurse
provides leadership and direction in the development and alignment to Accenture and industry best practices for F&A processes.
Travel Nurse Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective travel nurse job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included travel nurse job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Assess and evaluate patient needs for, and responses to, care rendered and apply sound nursing judgment in patient care management decisions
Meets the job specific competencies for RN
Compiles and uses information related to assignments, analyzing and handling procedures and problems that involve independent judgment and decision-making
Complies with hospital, administrative, safety and human resource policies and procedures
Demonstrates self directed performance requiring little direction or supervision
Assists coworkers in completing their duties to promote effective teamwork
Demonstrates flexibility to assist in achieving safe, effective and efficient staffing and scheduling (willing to float to like unit, when requested)
Assesses and re-assesses patient condition, observing and recording significant conditions and reactions, detecting deviations from normal, reporting findings and documenting appropriately
Assists and advocates appropriate interventions and care planning
Initiates a patient education plan, patient care plan &/or clinical pathways, according to the assessed individualized needs of the patient, and as prescribed by physician and hospital policy, including patient and family instruction
Travel Nurse Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Travel Nurse
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BLS, ACLS, CPR, PALS, CPI, NRP, IV, BLC, ENPC
Education for Travel Nurse
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the travel nurse job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Nursing, Associates, Science, School of Nursing, Education, Graduate, Medical, Nursing Program, Management, Health Care
Skills for Travel Nurse
Desired skills for travel nurse include:
Industry recruiting and staffing strategies and best practices to coordinate
Interview
Source
Hire all Agency Staff position levels
Hire for all position levels
Industry and process in order to coach on how to expedite the placement process
Excel
Word
Interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patients needs in relation to age
Microsoft Windows
Desired experience for travel nurse includes:
Responds to life saving situations based upon nursing standards, policies and procedures and protocol
Cooperates with other personnel and stakeholders to achieve organizational mission and strategic objectives and maintains positive relations throughout the organization
Medically manage the care of patients with acute or chronic pain, establish a plan of care, and educate patients on pain management issues
Provide pre, intra and post-procedure assessment
Perform appropriate interventions, patient and family education
Provide discharge instructions
Travel Nurse Examples
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Travel Nurse Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a travel nurse. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for travel nurse
- Formulate the initial plan of care with the provider (physician or nurse practitioner) and collaborate with them to implement a comprehensive patient-centered plan of care to achieve expected outcomes
- Collaborate with physicians, medical professionals and other staff to ensure quality of care
- Provide care for the pediatric, adolescent, adult or geriatric patient
- Utilize knowledge of the principles of growth and development appropriate to the patients' age to ensure that care provided meets the unique, physical and psychosocial needs of the patient
- Involve appropriate parties (i.e., patients' family or guardian, outside agencies) in the assessment, treatment and continuing care of the patient as needed
- Chang diapers and feeding babies
- Keep parents well informed of their child's condition
- Act as a charge nurse
- Provide supervision to subordinate professional, paraprofessional and support staff in the performance of their patient/resident care duties
- Assisting new mothers with physical and emotional needs immediately after the delivery of a baby
Qualifications for travel nurse
- Strong OR experience
- 1+ year of Labor & Delivery Experience
- 1+ year of previous experience in an Emergency Department
- MICU experience
- BLS, PALS, IV Certified
- BSN, BLS
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Travel Nurse Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of travel nurse. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for travel nurse
- Understanding of what the new mother is experiencing and providing the proper education and treatment, through observation, resources and consistency
- Caring for patients with illness or disease that has led them to temporary or long-term hospitalization
- Providing direct care of a set of patients and facilitating their recovery through social interaction and traditional therapies
- Collaborating with a variety of interdisciplinary professionals to determine and providing the best possible care for patients
- Identifying the medical problems
- Act as a support system for parents and family of newborns
- Collaborating with the Surgical team members and providing nursing care to patients undergoing various procedures and operations
- Helping patients with recovery immediately following surgery and teach them, and their families, about at-home postoperative care
- Interviewing and assessing patients on the day of surgery
- Make sure that patients are receiving the best possible care
Qualifications for travel nurse
- At least 2 years of recent ER experience
- Adult ED Experience
- ChemoBioTherapy Card from ONS
- 2+ years of expereince in the specialty area
- Minimum of 2 years of CVOR experience
- Minimum 2 years of CVOR experience
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Travel Nurse Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a travel nurse. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for travel nurse
- Patient care and relationships
- Assisting with endoscopies
- Independently performing some procedures
- Perioperative nursing care for pediatric, adolescent, adult surgical and geriatric patients
- Providing care through the use of the nursing process and in a manner that is cost effective without compromising quality of care
- Performing assessments, planning, and implementation of nursing intervention and evaluation
- Demonstrating competency to circulate for simple to complex surgical procedures
- Participating in department quality assessment, improvement activities, participates in student and new employee orientations teaching activities
- Providing superior nursing care to a wide patient population, with a focus on cardiac care
- Using established techniques in preparing for and assisting with surgical procedures
Qualifications for travel nurse
- BCLS, ChemoBioTherapy Card (ONS)
- WITT experience
- Circulate & Scrub experience
- Minimum 1 year of Acute Care experience
- 2+ years of Gastrointestinal experience
- Previous In-Room and Intake/Discharge experience
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Travel Nurse Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of travel nurse. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for travel nurse
- Utilizes current knowledge of industry recruiting and staffing strategies and best practices to coordinate, source, interview, and hire for all position levels
- Providing and setting up necessary instruments, supplies and equipment for different types of operations, according to established routines and instructions of the Surgeon
- Setting up operating room with instruments as specifically required for type of operation to be performed
- Observing patient during surgical procedure to detect possible complications and/or breaks in sterile technique
- Managing contaminated instruments and supplies during operation procedures to prevent spread of infection
- Placing patients in recommended positions to assure access to the operative field
- Preserving and labeling operative specimens for laboratory analysis
- Observing progress of surgery
- Providing superior nursing care to a wide patient population, with a focus on cardiac
- Manage the care of patients experiencing life-threatening problems requiring complex assessment
Qualifications for travel nurse
- 2+ years of experience in PICU
- Previous experience in an Acute Care, Labor & Delivery, and/or Maternal Child setting
- Able to work in level III NICU
- Current OR experience
- Recent experience within an Emergency Room setting
- Recent Psych experience
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Travel Nurse Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of travel nurse. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for travel nurse
- Perform assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychological and cognitive status of patients
- Analyze assessment data to determine appropriate nursing diagnoses
- Identify appropriate expected outcomes individualized to the patient
- Formulate a goal directed plan of care, which is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes
- Identify patient / significant other learning needs and implement appropriate measures to meet these
- Implement care in a knowledgeable, skillful, consistent and continuous manner
- Perform documentation duties on unit and in patient record, which is timely, accurate and concise
- Evaluate effectiveness of self, care given by all Healthcare team members, and contribution of systems, environment, and instrumentation in progressing patient toward outcomes
- Travel to different out of town locations to assist with the collection of data for clinical research protocol subject visits
- Provide oversight required to manage the cases assigned to ensure appropriate medical care is received
Qualifications for travel nurse
- Experience CCU/ ICU
- Experience within an ICU
- Acute Care Ventilator experience
- Experience within an Emergency Department
- Experience working within a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- 2+ years of experience in an OB/GYN / Post-Partum setting