Registered Nurse - Telemetry

Cardiac Procedural Unit (CPPU) Registered Nurse

RTO after booking is not allowed and is not allowed to be worked out onsite. Any call offs or additional RTO on unit, could possibly turn into a cancel and DNR. Weekend Position (F/S/S) Required Skills: IV Start and Telemetry. Required Certifications: ACLS, BCLS and NIH. Ratios: 1:5-6. Unit will accept contracts for 13 weeks. *36 or 48 Hours can be Offered 12 HR NIGHTS, Weekend Schedule Friday, Saturday, Sunday Floating is required as needed to similar units. Required Weekends: Friday/Saturday/Sunday schedule Patient Diagnoses: Pre/Post Cath, Pre/Post PPM & AICD, Watchmen Procedures, Stress Tests, Management of Arterial & Venous sheaths, TIA population, Carotid Stent Patient Management, Card-Tele, Management of Arrhythmias, Management of cardiac drips: Cardizem, Amiodarone, Renal Dose Dopamine, Lasix Drips, and non-titrating Nitro Drips for stable CP, NSTEMI Patients. Special Procedures / Unit Details: CPPU is a 24 bed inpatient cardiac procedural unit housing cardiac telemetry along with pre and post cardiac procedural patients. Average length of stay is 1.8-2.4 days in length. There is rapid patient turnover on the unit, daily. There is an ADT (Admission, Discharge, Transfer) nurse available on the unit Monday-Friday during peak patient transition times. Scheduling: Any absences have to be made up at the end of the contract and cannot be made up as an OT day. If nurse calls out on a weekend shift, they will have to automatically make another weekend shift up at the manager's discretion per the 2020 policy. Unit cannot promise a block schedule at any time. Will do their best to accommodate requests, but at this time, are not able to assure that a block schedule can be secured.