Med Surg/Telemetry RN
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale-New Haven Hospital

Registered Nurse: MS/Tele (Telemetry)

Overview

• Location: New Haven, Connecticut
• Employment type: Travel/Contract
• Contract length: 13 weeks
• Shift: Night (3x12 hours), 19:00 to 07:00
• Hours: 12 hours per day, 36 hours per week
• Nurse-to-patient ratios: Average 1:5 and 1:6 (day shifts)
• Weekends: Every other weekend required
• On-call: Not required
• Floating: Clinician may float within scope to meet facility needs
• Guaranteed hours: Yes
• First-time travelers: Accepted

Facility

• Type: Short-term acute care
• Trauma designation: Level I Trauma Center
• Total staffed beds: 1,567

Required Qualifications

• Valid Connecticut RN license
• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) / Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)
• 2 years of Med Surg / Telemetry nursing experience, including experience within the last year
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification

Preferred Qualifications

• Tdap vaccination within 10 years of start (highly preferred, not required; declination accepted)
• COVID vaccine series, if previously received (preferred)
• CPI certification (preferred for ER RNs)
• TNCC certification (preferred for Pediatric ER)

Required Facility Training

• Language services training and attestation
• CAUTI education training (not required for PICU, NICU, or psych/behavioral health)
• Suicide risk and environmental assessment training
• Mobile heartbeat alarm module (not required for ER/ED, pediatrics, ICU, or NICU)
• Stroke education module and attestation (not required for pediatric population, case management, behavioral health, or home health)
• CLABSI prevention training
• Preventing pressure injury training
• Patient transportation with oxygen education
• Medication dispensing system modules and attestation
• Infusion pump interoperability training
• Patient bedside rounding module (as of 5/12/2023)
• Ventricular assist device awareness module
• Blood administration module, updated annually
• 21st Century Cures Act module
• ED handbook (ED/ER RNs only)
• Medication administration tracking (eCart) training
• Chaperone policy training (updated module required after a 6-month gap or if the module has changed)
• Fire safety module
• Facility orientation module, submitted by end of day on start date
• Pre-start software testing for some ER RNs (optional test-out; otherwise completed at orientation)