Travel Nurse RN - Telemetry
Lafayette, LA
Amergis Healthcare Staffing, Inc.
3x12 hrs, Nights

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care on telemetry unit
• Performs focused interview to identify specific patient needs
• Assesses signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition
• Monitors EKG output and keeps doctors informed of any changes
• Records vital signs, including oxygen levels, blood pressure, breathing patterns, etc.
• Monitors patient progress and updates patient medical records as needed
• Responds to patients experiencing cardiac pain
• Performs various diagnostic tests
• Manages and administers medication
• Monitors and uses the electrocardiogram, EKG, or ECG
• Educates patients on cardiac health and communicates with patient’s family when applicable
• Administers tests, analyzes lab results, and reports them to the physician
• Documents the patient’s plan of care using identified nursing diagnoses, expected patient outcomes, and selected nursing interventions
• Identifies and prioritizes actions based upon patient care requirements
• Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standard
• Provides a safe, comfortable and therapeutic patient environment
• Revises the plan of care according to evaluation, changes in medical plan of care, effective/ineffective nursing interventions
• Documents patient’s response to nursing and other interventions
• Uses clinical judgment in evaluation activities to meet patient care needs of an assigned unit/floor including established priorities
• Monitors safety and effectiveness of the environment and equipment