Job Title: Registered Nurse
Profession: Nursing
Specialty: Telemetry
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: Nights
Hours per Shift: 12 hours
Experience: Minimum 2 years
License: Required
Certifications: BLS, ACLS
Must-Have:
- Experience with cardiac drips and post catheterization lab care
- Ability to titrate drips for analgesics, anticoagulants, and antihypertensives
Description:
Registered Nurses will work in a telemetry unit.
Patient ratios are 1:4 on day shifts and 1:5 on night shifts.
Common diagnoses include congestive heart failure, hypertension, and chest pain work-ups.
Additional patient conditions may include COPD exacerbations, asthma, pneumonia, pancreatitis, bowel obstructions, gastrointestinal bleeding, and acute renal failure.
Nurses will be required to interpret cardiac monitor strips, with tele monitor techs providing continuous monitoring.
Charge nurses will take an assignment alongside their supervisory responsibilities.
Nurse aides are available, with a ratio of approximately 10-12 aides per unit.
CPAP, HFNC, and NRB equipment are utilized on this unit.
Self-scheduling and block scheduling are allowed with weekend and holiday shift requirements.
Employees are expected to self-schedule a minimum of six weekend shifts within a six-week schedule.
There is a possibility of floating to various acuity levels as needed.
Cancellation policy allows for up to 4 shifts to be canceled per 13-week assignment.
The charting system utilized is EPIC.