Travel Nurse (RN) - 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:

Education (Required): Diploma or Associate

Required Skills: • IV insertion: • Blood draws: • PICC/Central Line management: • Obtain 12 lead EKG: • Trach Care:Xpossibly at times, not specific to the area • Epidural/PCA pump: , possibly at times, not specific to the area. No epidural pumps assigned to that area • Feeding tubes: possibly at times, not specific to the area • Continuous bladder irrigation: possibly at times, not specific to the area • • Wound vac:, possibly at times, not specific to the area

Unit Name/Type of unit: Medical Surgical and Progressive Care- 5A, 5C, 5J, 5K, 5H Selling points for the unit: Mixture of patient acuity, friendly peers and resources available # beds/procedures:

Patient ratio: between 9-14 patients per unit, rations are 4/1 or 5/1 depending on acuity

Does RN need to know how to read tele strips? Yes, RN would need to know the important strips, leadership available if needed

Top diagnosis/procedures: Mixed acuity, not specific to any procedures

Common equipment used: Dynamap, accu check machine, stethescope, on occasions bladder scanner, EKG machine

Does RN need to be able to titrate medication? Only a few medicaitons are allowed to be titrated on these units, heparin and only if protocol is in place, list of medications available that are specific to area available in policy if needed.

Common medications given: Daily medications, blood pressure, stool softners, antibiotics, lovenox, anticoagulations, etc

Scrub Color (are they provided): Scrubs are not provided however you can get them pretty cheap on Walmart.com, Galaxy blue is the color for nurses.