Travel RN - Telemetry - Progressive Care Unit

Travel RN - Telemetry - Progressive Care Unit

American Traveler

Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

Position status: Open

Assignment type: travel

Shift: Nights

Length (weeks): 13

Openings: 2

$3,570.04/week (estimated advertised weekly pay)

Description

American Traveler is hiring an experienced RN for a Cardiovascular Progressive Care Unit position with rotating night shifts and ACLS certification required.

Details

• Work in a newly established 16-bed Cardiovascular Progressive Care Unit (CVPCU) within the Heart and Vascular Center
• Care for complex cardiovascular medicine and cardiothoracic surgery patients, including those transitioning from critical care and recovering from procedures
• 1:3 nurse-to-patient ratio
• Utilize continuous invasive pressure monitoring, vasopressor and inotrope infusion management, transvenous and epicardial temporary pacing, chest tube management, phlebotomy, and peripheral IV insertion
• Rotating and night shift schedules only
• 36 or 48 hour shift options

Requirements

• Active RN license (NH or Compact)
• ACLS certification required
• Minimum 2 years of progressive level of care or critical care nursing experience
• Recent Level 1 or comparable Level 2 Trauma experience within the last 2 years
• Cardiology specialty experience required
• Cardiac surgery specialty experience required
• Experience with primary continuous bedside monitoring (ECG, SpO2, BP, RR)
• Experience with continuous invasive pressure monitoring (arterial line, CVP monitoring)
• Experience with temporary pacing (transvenous and epicardial wire pacing)
• Experience with vasopressor infusion management (phenylephrine, norepinephrine)
• Experience with inotrope infusion management (milrinone, dobutamine)
• Experience with chest tube management, phlebotomy, and peripheral IV insertion

Additional Information

• Serve as a bridge between the Heart and Vascular Unit and the Cardiovascular Critical Care Unit, caring for patients requiring a higher level of monitoring than standard acute care
• Strengthen cardiovascular assessment, telemetry, and clinical judgment skills through early recognition of patient deterioration
• Collaborative progressive care environment ideal for experienced step-down, telemetry, cardiovascular, or critical care RNs
• Critical care experience, charge RN experience, and precepting experience are preferred but not required
• Dress code allows any color scrubs per facility policy
• Must reside outside a 75-mile radius of the facility to be eligible for consideration

Hours per week: 48

Hours per shift: 12