Travel Nurse RN - Telemetry - $2,471 per week

Company: Salem Hospital
Location: Salem
Posted on: October 30, 2024

Job Description:

• Certification Details
• Active ACLS & BLS certification required.
• Telemetry certification required.
  • Job Details
  • M/S Tele RN Eves & EOW - 40hrs.
  • MUST BE ABLE TO READ TELE STRIPS
  • Unit Name: Davenport 8.
  • Brief Unit Description: Davenport 8 is a thirty-seven (37) bed medical telemetry unit.
  • Patients may be admitted from the E.S., transferred in from other units within the hospital or directly admitted by a physician.
  • Patients on Cardizem drips, Nitroglycerin drips, Lasix drips and Heparin drips.
  • Post pacemaker and post Cardiac Cath patients both with and without interventions.
  • NSTEMI patients.
    • Job Requirements
    • Years of Experience Required: 2 years.
    • Floating Required: Travelers are required to float to applicable units when needed.
    • Rotating Shifts Required: Day Rotators may be rotated between various shifts when needed.
    • Skill Sets Required: Knowledge on cardiac drips and ability to interpret Tele Strips.
    • Nursing care for patients post cardiac catheterization and pacemaker is needed but not required.
      • Schedule Information
      • Day and evening RN to patient ratio is 1:4 max of 5.
      • The night shift RN to patient ratio is 1:5-6.
      • Day shift on weekdays includes a Charge RN without a patient assignment.
        • Unit Specific Information
        • Census: 37.
        • EMR (Charting System): EPIC.
          • Additional Details
          • Patient Population: Primary diagnosis is CHF, Atrial Fibrillation, Pulmonary Embolus and pneumonia.
          • Secondary conditions like ETOH, dementia with Cardiac co-morbidities.
          • Occasionally admit surgical patients if other units do not have a bed.

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