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Job Title: IMC/Tele RN (Stepdown)
Profession: Registered Nurse
Specialty: IMC/Tele RN (Stepdown)
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: Nights
Hours per Shift: 12 hours
Experience: Minimum 1 year of experience
License: Required
Certifications: ACLS, BLS, EKG Course
Must-Have:
Management of IV nitroglycerin, heparin, diltiazem, and amiodarone.
Experience with post-cath lab patients.
Ability to titrate drips.
Description:
The position is for an IMC/Tele RN in a stepdown unit.
The unit consists of 30 beds.
The nurse-patient ratio is typically 1:4, but may stretch to 1:5 if there is sick call or added support.
Common diagnoses for patients include cardiac issues, NSTEMI, post-cath lab, atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, gastrointestinal bleed, detox, respiratory distress, and sepsis.
Nurses are required to titrate medications such as nitroglycerin, diltiazem, insulin, heparin, and amiodarone.
Charge nurses will be assigned 2 patients.
Support staff, including nurse aides, are available on the unit, with a ratio of 1 aide for every 10-12 patients depending on the census.
There is respiratory therapy equipment available, including CPAP and BiPAP.
Tele-monitor technicians are present on the unit, and nurses are not required to read their own strips as the technicians handle this task.
Shifts will be from 7 PM to 7 AM.
Nurses are expected to work every other weekend and holiday.
There may be requirements to float to medical-surgical units or IMC overflow in the intensive care unit.
Scrub color is navy blue.
All clinicians must clock in and out during their shift.