Certification Details
- Required Certifications :
- ACLS
Job Details
- Minimum 3 years of Telemetry and Med Surg experience required
- May float to other Med Surg and Tele units
- Accepts 1st time travelers!
- Additional Requirement : Must be able to read strips
- Must be able to work in Telemetry setting and will receive general medical surgical patients and moderate volume orthopedic surgical cases.
Total joint ortho experience would be required
- HARD REQUIREMENTS :
- Experience level is med-surg and telemetry with a 1 : 5 nurse to patient med-surg ratio
- Years of experience are a minimum of 3 years in nursing
- References have level 4-5 ratings
- Competencies must be consistent with medical-surgical and telemetry patient care needs and should be rated 3 or greater
- Every other weekend coverage required
- No Call requirement
- Scrubs : Royal Blue
Job Requirements
- Must be able to work in Telemetry setting
- Required Cardiac Monitoring and Emergency Response Skills :
- Interpretation of dysrhythmias
- Management of dysrhythmias
- Telemetry - on the unit monitoring
- Telemetry - remote monitoring
- Required Cardiovascular skills :
- Post Cardiac Angiogram
- Post MI
- Pre / Post Cardiac Cath
- Pre / Post Cardiac Surgery
- Required IV Therapy / Phlebotomy Skills :
- Blood Product Administration
- Central line care / management
- PICC line management
- Starting IVs
- Required Medication skills :
- Heparin Protocols
- Manage Cardiac drips- no titration
- Manage Vasoactive drips-no titration
- Required Respiratory / Thoracic Skills :
- Chest tubes-Emerson / Pleuravac
- External CPAP / BIPAP
- High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)
- Nasal Cannula
- Non-invasive airway management
- Oxygen face masks
- Tracheostomy Management
Schedule Information
- Avg Census : 36
- Rooms / Beds 36
- Ratios - 1 : 5
- Every other weekend coverage required
- No Call requirement
- RTO must be on the submittal
- No RTO the first two weeks of an assignment
- 1 Holiday RTO must only be submitted but it is not guaranteed to be approved
- Please Note : Once RTO is submitted, this cannot be changed unless it’s to cancel time requested - ensure that you have confirmed all dates needed off for the full 13 week contract
- NO MORE THAN 3 DAYS RTO MAX
Unit Specific Information
- Patient Population :
- Adolescents - Geriatrics
- Must be able to work in Telemetry setting
8 days ago