Travel Nurse RN - Telemetry
Tacoma, WA
Voca Healthcare
3x12 hrs, Days

1. Required qualifications

• Minimum experience: At least 2 years of acute-care nursing experience.
• Clinical background: Medical-surgical and telemetry nursing experience is highly relevant, including caring for patients with medical, surgical, cardiac, neurological, orthopedic, and oncology conditions.
• Nursing license: A valid RN license is required for submission. The facility is willing to wait for licensure, according to the posting.
• BLS certification: Required.
• Epic charting: Experience with Epic is relevant because it is the facility's charting system.
• BSN: Not required.
• Previous travel experience: Not explicitly required in the posting.
• Employment restriction: Candidates cannot have worked full-time, part-time, or PRN at a CommonSpirit-affiliated facility, including CHI or Dignity, within the past year.

2. Required clinical skills

Candidates should be comfortable with the following responsibilities:

• Providing care to 4–5 patients per nurse in medical-surgical and telemetry units.
• Monitoring cardiac rhythms, interpreting telemetry strips, and verifying monitor technician readings.
• Administering and titrating medications and drips according to medical-surgical guidelines, including insulin, heparin, nitroglycerin, dobutamine, dopamine, and Cardizem within specified limits.
• Caring for patients with cardiac, neurological, orthopedic, spine, abdominal surgery, trauma, oncology, and general medical conditions.
• Managing patients with CPAP, BiPAP, and tracheostomies; ventilator management is not part of the listed unit requirements.
• Recognizing patient deterioration and arranging transfer to critical care when required.
• Providing safe care across multiple medical-surgical and telemetry specialties.

3. Schedule and assignment requirements

• Shift: 12-hour day shifts.
• Hours: 36 hours per week guaranteed.
• Weekends: Every other weekend required.
• Holidays: Must be available to work 1–2 winter holidays.
• Floating: Mandatory across all medical-surgical and telemetry divisions, potentially including:
  • St. Joseph Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
  • St. Clare Hospital, Lakewood, WA
  • St. Elizabeth Hospital, Enumclaw, WA
• Call/standby: May be required up to four times during the contract.
• Orientation: Four hours on each of six primary units.
• Cancellations: The hospital may cancel up to four shifts during a 13-week assignment; the posting specifies three shifts for assignments shorter than 13 weeks.

4. Required certification

Certification

Requirement

BLS (Basic Life Support)

Required

ACLS

Not listed as a requirement

NIHSS

Not listed as a requirement

BSN

Not required

5. Quick candidate screening checklist

• At least 2 years of acute-care RN experience.
• Valid RN license or willingness to wait for licensure.
• Current BLS certification.
• Comfortable caring for 4–5 patients in Med-Surg/Tele.
• Telemetry monitoring and cardiac rhythm interpretation skills.
• Competency with medication drips and titration within unit guidelines.
• Epic charting experience.
• Willing to float between units and regional hospitals.
• Available for 12-hour day shifts and every other weekend.
• Able to work required winter holidays and occasional call.
• No employment at a CommonSpirit/CHI/Dignity-affiliated facility within the past year.