Travel Nurse (RN) - Medical Surgical / Telemetry Unit
$2,053/wk
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Pre-employment modules may be required for this role. Please upload any certifications or health documents you have to your profile to expedite your on-boarding process.
Additional Details:
All staff may be required to work during a hurricane with all necessary safety precautions in place. Please only submit if you are willing to provide care during hurricane season.
No block scheduling allowed.
Patient Diagnoses: Chest pain, CAD, PVD, arrhythmias, DM, COPD exacerbation, PNA, HTN, MI, renal failure, PE, CHF, GI bleed, syncope *Always potential for med-surg overflow (ex: GI bleed, sepsis, CVA, COVID +)
Special Procedures/Unit Details: Pre/post cath lab, PPM/AICD, ablations, vascular surgeries (CEAs, fem-pops), Titration of drips (ex: Cardizem, Amiodarone, Dobutamine, Nitroglycerin, Dopamine, heparin); Sheath pulling at bedside
- Every other holiday
- Can be pulled to all other inpatient units
- Unable to guarantee any specific scheduling requests (ex: block scheduling)
Special Equipment:
- Telemetry monitoring
- Chest Tubes
- PCAs
- Epidurals
- Wound Vacs
Required Certs/Skills:
- Telemetry
- Interpretation and management of dysrhythmias
- On unit monitoring
- CABG
- Chest tubes
- Post angiogram, MI, Cardiac Cath, and sheath removal
- Port accessing
- Blood product administration
- Central line, Peripheral line, and PICC line care/management
- Starting IVs
- Titrate cardiac drips
- Titrate vasoactive drips
- Isolation precautions
- Wound care/management
No call in
RTO must be on profile and brought up in the interview or there is a high chance offer's will be rescinded.
Orientation held 5 days a week
References: Not required for submission, however 2 Manager/Supervisor references will be required to obtain clearance to start contract. Recruiter, please obtain Manager/Supervisor contact information prior to submission. Charge RNs are NOT acceptable. PDF format
NURSYS Reports for RNs must be sent with profile. Please ensure that the NURSYS is up to date (within 4 weeks of submission date).
Resources who worked as permanent staff or in-house agency contractors must be separated from Ochsner Health System for 1 full year before they can return as travel.
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