The Covenant Health System, with hospitals located primarily in and around the Knoxville, Tennessee area, is completing an EMR conversion over the first three quarters of 2018, and it needs travel nurses to help with the transition.

The system is switching from McKesson EMR to Cerner EMR and will need help with at least four specialties: Med/Surg, Telemetry, ICU, and ER. There is a potential for other needs.

Covenant System hiring officials say they’re looking for candidates with recent McKesson experience. While Cerner experience would be nice, it’s not a requirement. Covenant will provide training on the Cerner system for nurses that it chooses to extend.

Candidates should also be open to the idea of floating between other facilities within 50 miles of their home hospital while on assignment. Floating will not occur mid-shift, and nurses will be given notice of the need to float at least two hours prior to the start of a shift.

Two and three hospitals will be converting each quarter, starting with Methodist Medical Center, Roane Medical Center, and Rhea Medical Center in the first quarter.

• Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee is a 301-bed facility 25 miles east of Knoxville.
• Roane Medical Center is in Harriman, Tennessee, 42 miles west of Knoxville. It’s a 52 bed short-term acute care facility.
• Rhea Medical Center is a 25 bed critical access facility located in Dayton, Tennessee, 80 miles southwest of Knoxville.

Hospitals included in the second phase of the conversion, happening in the second quarter of the year, are Parkwest Medical Center, Fort Loudon Medical Center, and Cumberland Medical Center.

• Parkwest Medical Center is a 400-bed facility in southwest Knoxville.
• Fort Loudon Medical Center is 30 miles south and west of Knoxville in Lenoir City, Tennessee. It’s a 30-bed, short-term acute care facility.
• Cumberland Medical Center has 73 beds and is located 70 miles west of Knoxville in Crossville, Tennessee.

Two hospitals will convert in the third phase, occurring in the third quarter of 2018: Fort Sanders Medical Center and LeConte Medical Center.

• Fort Sanders Medical Center is a 352-bed hospital located in Knoxville near the University of Tennessee campus.
• LeConte Medical Center is in Sevierville, Tennessee, 30 miles southeast of Knoxville. It’s a 111-bed facility.

Two hospitals in the system haven’t been assigned a phase–Claiborne County Hospital and Morristown-Hamblen Hospital.

• Claiborne County Hospital is in Tazewell, Tennessee, 50 miles north of Knoxville. It has 129 beds.
• Morristown-Hamblen Hospital is a 128-bed facility located 50 miles northeast of Knoxville in Morristown, Tennessee.