Travel Nurse RN - Telemetry - $2,505 per week

HealthTrust Workforce Solutions HCA is seeking a travel nurse RN Telemetry for a travel nursing job in Kansas City, Missouri.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Telemetry
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: 12 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, nights
• Employment Type: Travel

Hospital: Research Medical Center

Location: Kansas City, MO

Address: 2316 E Myer Blvd Kansas City, MO 64132

Unit Name: 4 North Cardiac Telemetry

Building: Main Campus

Cost Center: 63627

General Information

Unit Specifics:

· Number of Beds : 29

· Patient Ratios : 1:4

· Unit staffing description- (unit secretaries and tech availability): Charge Nurse, Unit Secretary, and PCTs

· Type of equipment : Alaris IV Pumps, SCD machines, Hill Rom beds, dinamap in each room, 3 Welch Allen Vital Machines, Wound Vacs, Temporary Pacemakers, Telemetry monitor, EKG Machine, Bladder Scanner, Doppler, Imobile for communication between team members

· Documentation system: Meditech

· Scheduling requirements: Must work full time hours including 3 weekend shifts per scheduling period.

· Floating policy: Contract Nurses will be floated to any area where they have demonstrated competency.

· Patient Experience requirements: Must align with our patient experience goals by treating every patient with courtesy and respect and to be responsive to the call light (using patients preferred name, making personal connections, involving the patient in bedside shift report, teaching the patient how to use the phone to call nurse directly, and to always ask if there is anything else you can do before leaving the room).

Hiring profile

Requested Skill Set:

Must have : Cardiac Telemetry or PCU/ICU experience. Read and interpret EKGs and telemetry strips.

Advanced skills needed:  Must have experience with post cardiac procedural care (Ablations, cardiac catheterizations, Post Op Day 1 Open Heart, permanent Pacemaker placements). Must be able to administer and titrate IV medications such as insulin, Cardizem, Cardene, and Amiodarone.

Procedures performed on unit: IV insertions, NGT placement and maintenance, Chest Tube maintenance, Temporary Pacemakers, Foley insertions

Certifications Required:  ACLS, BLS, NIHSS

Dress Code : (Required uniform)

· Navy Blue scrubs. May wear black scrub pants with Navy Blue top.

Unit Guidelines/Policies :  Please attach unit specific policies and guidelines.

· ICARE Values

About HealthTrust Workforce Solutions HCA

At HealthTrust Workforce Solutions, healthcare is not just about the four walls of a facility but about the people who provide and receive care. Our focus is on empowering healthcare professionals to deliver exceptional patient experiences by providing them with the necessary skills, tools, and support. We partner with healthcare facilities nationwide to ensure that the right professionals are in the right roles. We prioritize our clinicians by giving them a voice and access to opportunities to fulfill their mission of improving lives by providing quality patient care.

We are committed to our core values of Trust, Innovation, Adaptability, Courage, and Accountability. We are dedicated to positively impacting the healthcare industry by providing first-priority access to more than 200,000 jobs nationwide to our healthcare professionals. Join us and be part of the HealthTrust family, where you can make a difference every day.

We embrace our changing environment, and we maintain a culture that has a rich tradition of transforming itself to meet the challenges of the future.

MISSION STATEMENT

While putting great people in the right roles is essential, our mission is far greater. We want our clinicians to be part of the HealthTrust family, where healthcare professionals have a voice and are empowered with the right tools and opportunities to fulfill their personal mission of improving lives. Plus, as a preferred partner to thousands of top-performing hospitals, we provide our healthcare professionals with first-priority access to more than 200,000 jobs nationwide.

Benefits

• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• Referral bonus
• Continuing Education
• Life insurance