Nurse Telemetry

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Registered Nurse (RN) on our full time night 30-bed Cardiac Telemetry unit you will be a pivotal healthcare professional delivering compassionate high-quality care that truly impacts our patients well-being and recovery. Our unit featuring all private rooms is meticulously designed to promote a quiet calm atmosphere and a healing environment supported by modern amenities like ceiling lifts a pneumatic tube system and state-of-the-art equipment.

Every day you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized comprehensive care to a diverse cardiac population including patients with arrhythmias those undergoing pre/post cardiac intervention (including sheath removals) and pre/post-operative cardiac surgical patients. Youll make critical assessments perform skilled procedures and meticulously implement patient care plans. Youll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes ensuring a smooth continuum of care from admission to discharge.

To be successful in this role you will possess keen assessment skills acute critical thinking and a patient-first mindset driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in our fast-paced cardiac environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement within a unit committed to providing the highest standard of specialized cardiac care.

• Assessment: Performs total body and system assessment each shift/visit according to unit standards.
• Care of Patient: Including planning implementing evaluating and educating.
• Clinical/Technical Skills: Utilizes technology procedures protocols standards and interventions specific to the assigned unit.
• Documentation: Performs legible timely concise and accurate documentation according to policies and procedures. Proficient and competent with the computerized documentation system.
• Leadership: Accepts responsibility and accountability for own decisions and behaviors. Recognizes accepts and cooperates with direction from facility leadership.
• Precepting/Mentoring: Participates in orientation of new staff ancillary personnel and mentors students in a constructive and positive manner. Serves as a resource to staff from other nursing departments.

Job Requirements

• One (1) year of experience as an RN within an acute care hospital.
• Active Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of California
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification - American Heart Association
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification - American Heart Association

Preferred

• Arrhythmia certification.

Where Youll Work

Founded in 1967 Dignity Health - Mercy San Juan Medical Center is a 377-bed acute care nonprofit hospital located in Carmichael California. Serving over 100000 patients annually the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center Level III NICU heart care cancer care womens health and neurology. Additionally Mercy San Juan Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Comprehensive Stroke Center the highest level of stroke care certification awarded by The Joint Commission.

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