Telemetry Registered Nurse
New York, NY
PRIDE Health
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Opportunity: Registered Nurse - Telemetry (Travel)

Location: New York, NY
Specialty: Telemetry Nursing
Employment Type: Staffing - Supplier Sourced
Contract Length: Approximately 13 weeks (89 days ≈ 13 weeks)

Job Description

As a Registered Professional Nurse, you will provide safe, competent, and quality care to a designated group of patients and their families, applying nursing theory, research, and evidence-based practice.

Key Responsibilities

Patient Care

• Deliver patient care using the professional practice model of Relationship Centered Care.
• Assess and evaluate patient needs, applying critical thinking in care management.
• Integrate assessment and intervention skills in nursing care delivery.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to develop, implement, and evaluate care plans.
• Prioritize patient care activities including teaching, rounding, coaching, discharge planning, and delegation.
• Educate patients and caregivers on care plans, health promotion, and disease prevention.
• Communicate effectively with patients, families, and healthcare team members.
• Manage assignments within the Modified Primary Nursing care delivery model.

Patient Experience

• Role model Relationship Centered Care through activities such as Admission Welcome, Bedside Shift Report, Purposeful Hourly Rounding, Medication Review, and Discharge Wrap Up.
• Respect patient values, preferences, cultural diversity, and expressed needs.
• Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
• Use evidence-based practices to understand patient perceptions of care.
• Initiate service recovery and escalate concerns as needed.
• Demonstrate caring, respect, compassion, empathy, and active listening.
• Support staff in evidence-based patient care practices.

Quality and Safety

• Practice safe, efficient, patient-centered care and identify barriers to improvement.
• Demonstrate clinical skills essential to quality and safety.
• Implement process improvement strategies and participate in peer and institutional reviews.
• Collaborate on quality improvement projects, evidence-based practice activities, and nursing research.
• Contribute to compliance with quality and safety standards.
• Apply high reliability principles to avoid high-risk behaviors.
• Escalate safety hazards following institutional protocols.
• Document nursing practice accurately to support quality and performance initiatives.

Operations

• Perform charge nurse duties as assigned.
• Coordinate with nursing leadership to ensure appropriate use and inventory of supplies.
• Escalate material or staffing shortages as needed.
• Practice cost-effective patient care resource management.
• Document thoroughly in compliance with regulatory and legal standards.
• Facilitate patient throughput during shifts.

Professional Development

• Support clinical colleagues, patients, families, and healthcare team members.
• Advance clinical competence from novice to expert.
• Maintain a professional image and communicate with caring, respect, compassion, and empathy.
• Incorporate ethical principles in decision-making.
• Foster a spirit of scholarship, inquiry, lifelong learning, and innovation.
• Acquire knowledge and skills relevant to the role, patient population, and specialty.
• Participate in shared decision-making through specialty councils, committees, and unit initiatives.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• New York State Registered Nurse (RN) License
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification
• Telemetry nursing experience (minimum 2 years)
• Medical-Surgical nursing experience
• Minimum 2 years RN experience overall
• Minimum 1 year travel nursing experience (for travel positions)
• Experience with ventilators
• EPIC electronic health record experience highly preferred

This position offers an opportunity to work in a dynamic healthcare environment focused on quality, safety, and patient-centered care with a strong emphasis on professional development.