Telemetry - TELE RN - TravelNurse

Company: Travel Nurse Across America
Location: Petersburg
Posted on: May 27, 2023

Job Description:

We're looking for Telemetry RNs for an immediate travel nurse opening in Petersburg, VA. The right RN should have 1-2 years' recent acute care experience. Read below for more requirements.


As a TELE Travel Nurse, you will provide care by connecting patients to machines that measure heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, as well as blood-oxygen levels and electrocardiogram information. These machines then send data to computer screens for RNs to monitor. Telemetry RNs read and interpret the data to better determine patient care.


As a TELE Travel Nurse, you should be prepared to perform the following tasks:

• 
  
• Provide basic bedside care.
  
• Monitor and adjust specialized equipment used on patients, and interpret and record electronic displays.
  
• Identify irregular telemetry readings and notify appropriate medical team members.
  
• Initiate corrective action whenever information from monitoring equipment shows adverse symptomatology.
  
  TELE Travel Nurses should be able to stand and walk for long periods of time, as well as bend, lean and stoop without difficulty. RNs should be able to easily lift 20 pounds. Moving or lifting of patients may require lifting of up to 50 pounds at times. RNs must have specific vision abilities including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
  Active VA or compact license.
  Certs: ACLS, BLS, NIH.
  Experience: 2 years - EPIC preferred Telemetry experience required; Alaris pumps, LifPak Defib monitors, Hoyer lifts, Glucometers, Dynamaps, Kangaroo pumps, Low Acuity, Mid Acuity, High Acuity, Stroke, Sepsis, Peritoneal Dialysis, Diabetes, Chronic cardiac/respiratory/renal/hepatic conditions - Floating to other med/surg units is possible.

Keywords: Travel Nurse Across America, Richmond , Telemetry - TELE RN - TravelNurse, Healthcare , Petersburg, Virginia