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:

May request one holiday off per assignment and are expected to work every other holiday.

• Weekly Guaranteed Hours: 36 or 48 – must be indicated on submission form

• Assignment Length: 13 weeks

All contingency requests must be on the submission form

• Weekend Hours: As required by facility/every other weekend

• Call Requirements: None

• Float Requirements: as needed, to a similar or lower acuity unit

• Must Have Skills/Experience: 1 year Cardiac Tele, inpatient only; ACLS. reading telemetry. Working with CHF, chest pain, renal, hemodialysis patients. Amio and Cardizem drips. Central lines (HD caths, Ports, PICCs).

• Preferred Skillset/Experience: Tikosyn and Sotalol initiation is a plus. Potential for dopamine, dobutamine, lidocaine, nitro, milrinone drips. Chest tubes, other drains. CIWA (withdrawal) protocol.

• Type of Patients on Unit: Working with CHF, chest pain, arrhythmias (mostly AFib, flutter, SVT),respiratory, renal, hemodialysis patients. Overflow patients: sepsis, urology, surgical, ETOH/drug withdrawals, isolation, GI bleeds.

• Scrub Color: tops and pants both black. Tops must have “Mercy” cross logo on the left chest. Undershirts/long-sleeve shirts are ok in black, white, yellow, green, red and blue. New t-shirts are coming Sept 1. Medical/scrub jackets.

• Any unacceptable attire: anything other than above.

Auto Offer Guidelines:

• Flexible Guaranteed Hours - 36 or 48 hours - must be listed on submission form

• Blocked Scheduling (no specific days) may be approved based on facility requirements - must be listed on submission form

• RTO of 5 days or less, must make up the week on the back end

• Holiday RTO – can request only 1 per assignment

• Auto Offers are contingent upon facility approval. Offer may be retracted within 48 hours by the facility.

• Patient Ratios: varies. nights 1:6-1:8 (estimates, not guarantees)

Details:

• AUTO OFFER - NO INTERVIEW: Please request an interview for one match from this facility at a time. You will not interview with the hiring manager if the facility chooses to extend an offer to you for this position. All time off requests must be submitted at application. Scheduling requests must be worked out with the manager directly upon starting the assignment. Any offers for this job will require a clear "Yes" or "No" response from the nurse within 24hrs or the offer must be declined.