Travel Nurse RN - Telemetry - $2,587 per week at Memorial Hospital
Bakersfield, CA 93399
About the Job
- Certs: BLS, ACLS, & NIHSS are required. Must have experience using NIHSS on the floor.
- Chemo cert would be a plus but not required. They occasionally & unexpectedly will get a patient needing chemo
Certification Details
- A hospital in California is looking for an experienced Telemetry nurse for a travel contract.
Job Details
- The right candidate will have 3 full years of experience, hold an active BLS, ACLS, NIH and CA License.
Job Requirements
- Shifts/Hours: 12 hours; 7a - 7:30p/7p - 7:30a
- Breaks: 1/2 hour break (clock-out); 3 - 15 min breaks per shift (CA Law)
- Weekends: Every other weekend or equivalent of 4 weekend days in a 4 week schedule (Example: could be 2 in a row, then off 2 in a row)
- Day Shift Weekend is Sat/Sun; Nights is Fri/Sat
Schedule Information
- Scrub Color: Navy blue. If you wear a scrub jacket it also must be navy. If you wear an undershirt underneath your scrub top it must be navy, white, or black.
- Tele: Spacelabs Monitoring - 24/7 monitor techs on this unit.
- Vents: No - have high-flow, bedside CPAP (maintained by RT)
- IV Team: No - ICU & ER can assist w/ hard IV sticks
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: Yes - also have clinical pharmacists on the unit throughout the day/evening
- Floating: Tele staff will float to med/surg, the other tele unit (4W), & could be floated to ICU. If floated to ICU, traveler will be given patients with appropriate level of acuity. They will get orientation to the ICU.
- Types of patients: Non-STEMI, R/O MI & ACS, neuro intervential radiology patients, carotid stents, carotid endarterectomy post ICU, high-risk stroke/renal patients, S/P cranies from ICU, get all r/o stroke, CVA, TIA. Designated unit for stroke.
- Medications: Titrate Heparin, Amiodarone, & Cardizem. Dopamine & Dobutamine set rates. Lasix. Occasionally pt may come from the cath lab with Integrilin drip until the infusion is done. Occasional patient w/ chemo, however chemo cert staff will administer, unless candidate has chemo cert.
Unit Specific Information
- Unit: 5W Tele Stroke (Very fast paced. High patient turnover. High acuity/high risk patients) VERY SIMILAR TO A STEPDOWN UNIT!
- ACLS, BLS, NIHSS; **Medical Solutions Clinical Team will pre-screen all candidates.
- **CERNER REQUIRED**
- **No duos!**
- *No first time travelers*
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