Travel Nurse (RN) - Medical Surgical / Telemetry Unit

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:

• 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RTO must be on profile and brought up in the interview or there is a high chance offer’s will be rescinded.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

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.