Travel Nurse RN - Intermediate Care
Bloomington, IL
Care Career
4x12 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

RN – Telemetry / Medical-Surgical Travel Assignment

Shift: 12-hour nights Schedule: 48 hours/week Contract: 13 weeks Unit Size: 32 beds, all private rooms Patient Ratio: 1:3–4 Setting: Inpatient Acute Care EMR: Epic BSN: Not required Guaranteed Hours: 48 hours/week

Position Details

• Care for patients with complex medical, cardiac, respiratory, neurological, and surgical conditions.
• Common diagnoses include COPD, CHF, diabetes, sepsis, DKA, renal disease, alcohol withdrawal, overdoses, and pneumonia.
• Experience caring for patients requiring BiPAP, CPAP, tracheostomies, chest tubes, NG tubes, PICC lines, central lines, dialysis, and post-cath lab/ablation care.
• Must be comfortable reading telemetry and managing chest tubes.
• Medication dispensing system: Pyxis.
• Orientation: 1 day with the education team and 1 day on the unit.
• Scrubs: Any color.
• Rotating nights, weekends, and holidays.

Requirements

• Active RN license; facility is willing to wait for licensure.
• BLS (AHA) required.
• ACLS (AHA) required.
• NIHSS required.
• Strong telemetry interpretation skills.
• Chest tube management experience.
• Ability to care for complex medical-surgical patients.

Floating Requirements

• Travel RNs are first to float.
• May float to ICU if they have extensive ICU experience; otherwise, they may float to general medical floors.
• Assignments depend on the level of care:
  • ICU: approximately 1:2.
  • General Medicine: approximately 1:5–6.