Registered Nurse(RN) / Travel / Medical-Surgical

Unit Profile:

Unit Information: Orthopedics & Spine Specialty

Location: Overland Park Regional Medical Center

Address: 10500 Quivira Road Overland Park KS 66215
Floor: 3rd (Tower A)

Building: Tower A

General Information

Tell us about the unit(s):

• Number of Beds - 36

• Number of Staff - 75

• Type of staff:
• Day Shift - 1 Charge, 8 RNs, 3 PCTs, 1 Unit clerk

• Night Shift - 1 Charge, 8 RNs, 3 PCTs

• Patient Ratios - 5-6:1

• Type of equipment - traction, external fixators, halos, walkers, gait belts, bed alarms, continuous pulse ox, remote telemetry monitoring

• EMR - Meditech

Typical hiring profile

Skill Set Most recruited for: (Travel RNs, local CNAs and sitters)

Must have: candidates without these skills will not be considered for the role.

• Acute Care hospital experience on Med/surg or Tele type units

• Kansas License

• BLS

Preferred or nice to have: candidates with these skills will be considered first.

• NIH certification

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List typical procedures performed on unit(s):

• Wound care/dressing changes

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Dress Code: Include requirements, but most of all not acceptable attire.

• Scrub Color - Royal Blue

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Unit Guidelines/Policies: Please feel free to attach unit policies and guidelines.

• Rotate through every 3rd weekend (sometimes every other if LOA)

• Shift is 0645-1915, 1845-0715

Awards/Recognition: Feel free to include items such as links to videos that feature the department, outstanding department/team awards, reigning annual chili cook-off winners, etc.

• 0% first year RN turnover

• 7% total RN turnover (national average is 17%)

• Increased in Employee Engagement year after year

Any additional information that would entice a worker to select your unit for their assignment: Consider items such as new equipment or technology, tenure and experience of staff, schedule options, etc. *Remember it is a very competitive market any information you can provide will help attract talent. ONT is a 36-bed unit with all private rooms. Fast paced med/surg acuity unit that specializes in orthopedic injury, neurological conditions including stroke and head injuries, and traumas. Every shift, staff check out a iPhone 7 that the log into to utilize a program called mobile heartbeat (iMobile). With this program, communication has become easier within the team and with a program that protects the patients privacy when communicating within this program. Staff can send out broadcasts to the whole unit, shoot text messages to specific team members (including physical therapy, occupational therapy, radiology, respiratory and more!), see who the caregiver is for any of the patients on the unit, and visualize lab results.
The hospital is a busy Level 2 trauma center with 2 freestanding EDs, which feed into this unit keeping it busy and usually full. The unit recently expanded from 26 beds to 36 beds due to the growing volume within its specialty of Orthopedic and Spine Specialty.