Job Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN Med Surg / Telemetry for a travel nursing job in Los Angeles, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Med Surg / Telemetry
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
We are seeking an experienced Telemetry RN to provide care for adolescent through geriatric patients in a 36-bed Telemetry unit. The RN must be comfortable with cardiac monitoring, rhythm interpretation, emergency response, cardiac patients, and higher-acuity respiratory needs. The RN must also be willing to float to Med-Surg and other Telemetry units as needed.
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years of Telemetry RN experience
- Epic experience required
- Ventilator experience required
- Must be able to read and interpret cardiac rhythm strips
- Must be comfortable floating to Med-Surg and other Telemetry units
- First-time travelers accepted
- No background or license hits accepted
- BLS, ACLS, and NIH certification required
Key Responsibilities
- Provide safe and comprehensive nursing care in a Telemetry setting.
- Continuously monitor patients and identify changes in cardiac rhythms.
- Interpret and manage dysrhythmias appropriately.
- Monitor patients through both bedside and remote telemetry systems.
- Respond to Rapid Response Team situations and other clinical emergencies.
- Care for patients following MI, cardiac angiograms, cardiac catheterization, and cardiac surgery.
- Manage patients requiring cardiac and vasoactive drips without titration.
- Follow heparin protocols and monitor patients receiving anticoagulation therapy.
- Administer blood products and manage IV therapy.
- Provide central line and PICC line care.
- Start and maintain peripheral IV access.
- Care for chronic or long-term ventilated patients.
- Manage patients with tracheostomies, chest tubes, CPAP/BiPAP, and HFNC.
- Provide appropriate oxygen and non-invasive airway management.
- Float to Med-Surg and other Telemetry units according to department needs.
- Accurately document patient care and assessments in Epic.
Telemetry RN with 2+ years of recent Tele experience, solid cardiac rhythm interpretation skills, ventilator experience, Epic proficiency, and the ability to care for complex cardiac and respiratory patients while floating between Telemetry and Med-Surg units.
About Prime Staffing
At Prime Staffing, we understand the importance of finding the perfect fit for both our clients and candidates. Prime Staffing utilizes a unique matchmaking approach, providing the most qualified contingent staffing to our clients, and the most competitive contracts to our workforce. Our experienced team takes the time to get to know both our clients and candidates, their needs, and preferences, to ensure that each placement is a success.
We offer a wide range of staffing services including temporary, temp-to-perm, and direct hire placements. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Los Angeles, CA |
| Industry | All |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.primestaffingnyc.com/ |
About Company
Prime Staffing is one of New York's leading staffing firms specializing in temporary and full-time/permanent placements across multiple industries including; healthcare, business, consulting, finance, legal services, entertainment, media, information Technology(IT) and retail.
Prime Staffing is certified by The Joint Commission for its compliance, and integrity, in supplying superior healthcare staffing services to many of the finest healthcare organizations in the country. In addition to its impeccable reputation for providing travel and per diem health care staffing, Prime has become an integral partner in staffing some of the most prestigious business organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the country including multi-national bank and investment firms, international business consulting firms, global law firms and some of the most prominent media and entertainment outlets.
Prime's success and rapid growth is direct result if its most basic founding principle-provide our clients with the most experienced and qualified employees and, likewise, provide our employees with the best jobs at the top organizations in their respective professional disciplines.
Prime Staffing is a high-energy company with a corporate culture that embraces innovation, new technology and personalized customer service. We are confident in our ability to serve you professionally by placing esteemed and experienced individuals. Our continuous expansions enables us to adapt to the continuously changing needs of our clients and employees. Through our team of seasoned professionals we maintain respect, integrity and superiority in all aspects of our business.
At Prime, we work diligently to recognize your objectives and create programs to meet them. We believe that ardent customer service is an essential component to remaining at the forefront of a competitive marketplace. Prime utilizes its expertise, and decades of combined experience in the industry, to continuously improve, implement cutting-edge programs and maintaining our position in the market as one of the fastest growing firms in the Tri-State area.
It is our goal to build long-term relationships with clients and employees based on a foundation of trust, mutual respect and our expertise in the field of staffing. We guarantee dependability, consistency and security in all aspects of operation. Prime Staffing is the Superior Staffing Solution.
Skills
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)unmatched
- Anticoagulantunmatched
- Cardiac Monitoringunmatched
- Cardiac Surgeryunmatched
- Cardiologyunmatched
- Catheterizationunmatched
- Emergency Responseunmatched
- Epic Systemsunmatched
- Geriatricsunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Heparinunmatched
- Intravenous Therapiesunmatched
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)unmatched
- Nursingunmatched
- Paint Shop Pro Tubesunmatched
- Patient Assessmentunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- Registered Nurse (RN)unmatched
- Telemetryunmatched
- Telemetry Nursingunmatched
- Titrationunmatched
- Tracheotomyunmatched
- Ventilatorunmatched
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