Telemetry Unit - Travel Registered Nurse - $2220 per week.
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Shift: 7:00 PM - 7:30 AM
Experience:
• 5 years of experience with 3 months within the last 12 months.
• 5 years of Telemetry Unit experience with 12 months within the last 36 months (3 years).
• 12 months of travel experience is required.
• Experience with Epic is preferred.
Requirements:
• Candidates must have a West Virginia license or compact license (required after submission).
• This role may require floating to additional units and locations
• Travel only, local not allowed. Candidates must live >50 miles from facility to be submitted.
• COVID vaccination required after submission. Religious and medical declinations accepted.
• Flu vaccination required for submission. Religious and medical declinations accepted.
• Anyone who worked as Staff at a facility in this program in the last 24 months cannot be submitted.
• Anyone who worked as a traveler at a facility in this program in the last 24 months cannot be submitted.
• Anyone currently working at a facility in this program cannot be submitted.
Pre-employment modules may be required for this role. Please upload any certifications or health documents you have to your profile to expedite your on-boarding process.
Additional Details:
Artificial nails are not allowed for any travelers. Failure to adhere could result in being sent home and/or terminated if policy is not followed.
Special Requests:
If candidate worked a perm facility in the last 12 months, 1 reference must be from perm facility.
Eligibility as Current/Previous Employee: cumulative experience applies for previous travelers.
References: At least one reference must be from the same unit/specialty as the job you're applying to.
Previous permanent employees must have been gone for 2 years.
Previous travelers who were there for 1 full year must have been gone for 2 years.
Block scheduling may be available depending on unit needs.
Shift & Scheduling:
Every other weekend is required; night shift weekend coverage is Friday/Saturday.
Every other holiday is required: Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's.
No on-call.
Self-scheduling is allowed for travelers.
RNs may pick up additional shifts on a shift they do not normally work, but will not be made to work a different shift.
Floating Requirements:
Floating may occur to a comparable or lower-level unit, including telemetry or med/surg. Staff may occasionally be pulled to help with admitted boarded patients in the emergency department or floor/tele patients housed in the ICU.
Unit Details:
The unit is currently telemetry only; stepdown care is not applicable at this time, and no return date for stepdown has been given.
Patient types include telemetry, post-catheterization, medical/surgical patients requiring telemetry monitoring, and patients with respiratory difficulty.
Admissions and discharges are highly variable, ranging from 1-2 to 10 per day.
The unit uses an Accu-Chek glucometer for blood sugar testing and barcode scanning.
Cardiac monitoring uses hardwired and portable telemetry monitors; monitor technicians notify assigned nurses about issues they identify.
Nurses are expected to understand basic dysrhythmias and verify telemetry strip interpretations.
Nurses reconstitute antibiotics, and telemetry patients may have titrating heparin; the main pharmacy has 24/7 coverage.
Respiratory therapy is present in the building 24/7 and is nearly always available. Nursing staff may administer nebulizers/breathing treatments. No ventilators are on the unit, but nearly all other oxygen-delivery methods are used.
At least one covering hospitalist is available 24/7.
Nurses place IVs and draw labs from central lines only when there is an order to do so; there are no other IV requirements.
Travelers may be asked to precept or do charge depending on their comfort level when staffing needs cannot be covered. The unit discusses this first, and a lack of comfort is respected.
14 days maximum time off
1 Charge/Lead/Supervisor reference required from within the last 2 years
Driver's license required for submission
Certifications:
• BLS (Basic Life Support)
• ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support)
• NIHSS (NIH Stroke Scale)
- Skills Checklist: Yes
- References: Yes
- License Type: registered
- License State: WV
- Certifications: Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support, Basic Life Support, NIH Stroke Scale
Job Details
- Job Type: Travel
- Nurse/Patient: 1/5
- Shift Type: Night
- Contract Date: 2026-11-04
- Expected Length: 13 weeks
- Hours per Shift: 12
- Shifts per Week: 3