Traveling nurse vs emergency department registered nurse

Differences between traveling nurse and emergency department registered nurse duties and responsibilities

Traveling nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage critically ill patient as a result of trauma, including vent management, ICP monitoring, and CRRT.
• Manage and further help stabilize elective and/or urgent surgical patient in their post-operative, post PACU admission to the floor.
• Manage bedside care per MD orders, administering medications, ensuring patient safety, assisting in ADL care, etc.
• Monitor chemotherapy and administration of oral chemo medication, obtain laboratory specimens to manage client status via central lines.
• Travel nurse who provide care to patients in SICU, MICU, CCU, and CVICU.
• Work in both MICU and SICU
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Emergency department registered nurse example responsibilities.

• Monitor and manage chest tubes and various drainage devices along with pacer wires, epidural lines, and PCA pumps.
• Stabilize critical patients through the use of BLS and ACLS protocols.
• Assess patients and prioritize care: stabilize multiple critical patients using ACLS and BLS protocols.
• Provide direct patient care including triage evaluation and treatment of patients presenting for care for medical/trauma/psychiatric care.
• Perform triage, assessments, complete MD orders assist in treatment and admit or discharge patients requiring/receiving emergency care
• Provide comprehensive care to patients that addressed the physical, social, spiritual and mental aspects of care and rehabilitation.
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