Travel Nurse RN - Telemetry - $2,043 per week

Certification Details BLS - Basic Life Support ACLS - Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Job Requirements Must have PCU experience & be able to read strips Experience or 'Must have' skills: Tele/cardiac RN wanted with PCU experience, Epic preferred, ok with first-time travelers RN's required to titrate drips: Yes Common titratable &/or set rate drips: Amio, Cardizem, Heparin, Nitro, Nipride, Lasix, (low dose Dopamine), No Levo RN's required to read their own strips: RN to read and interpret Schedule Information Shifts & Scheduling: 7a-7p, 7p-7a Weekend Requirements: Every other Holiday Requirements: Every other Floating Requirements: All areas as helping hands, PCU for full patient load of PCU, MS for full patient assignment, some ER Holds/boarding Unit Specific Information Number of Beds: 32 Nurse:Patient Ratios: 1:4-5, occasional 5-6 on nights, PCU level care overflow on the unit 1:3 Common diagnosis/Types of patients: Adults and geriatrics, Cardiac caths, EP studies, pacers, and ETOH, Covid Bipap, occasional general surgical with heart history, medical patients with cardiac history, pneumonia covid, acute on chronic conditions, influenza, sepsis Is there a Charge Nurse on each shift? Does the charge nurse take an assignment?: Yes, both shifts, occasionally take a light load 2-3 patients Are there nurse aids/patient care techs on this unit? Ratios? Duties?: Yes- 1:10 is the goal Are there Tele/Monitor Techs on this unit? Tele portable monitors and monitors in the rooms, and tech at the nurses station Scrub Color/Dress Code/Scrubs Provided? Any color scrubs How many shifts of unit/department-specific orientation? 2- 12 hour shifts, Friday and Saturday of the first week of orientation and on own by that Sunday Additional Details Bipap, trachs, airvo etc. - RNs required to troubleshoot More of a tele/cardiac unit Radius Rule: 50 miles AND candidates may not be full time, part time, or PRN with any facility associated with CommonSpirit, including CHI and/or Dignity RTO needed upfront (7 or less days per 13 week contract). Additional RTO will not be approved, including after submissions Updated: 1/26/24