You’ll need
Licensure
✓NV RN license required prior to start
Certifications
✓BLS (AHA), ACLS (AHA), NIHSS (apex)
Renown Regional Medical Center
592beds
New Nevada cardiac RN contracts paying $2,150+/wk
Weekly. Verified links and pay changes. No account.
Full employer posting
- 3x12, Nights
- Weekly Guaranteed Hours: 36
- Call
- Call is not required
- Licenses: NV RN license required prior to start
- Required
- BLS (AHA), ACLS (AHA), NIHSS (APEX)
- Experience Required: Minimum 2 years of Telemetry experience required. Must pass a telemetry competency exam to include identifying and measuring rhythm strips. We are looking for candidates with at least two years of recent inpatient telemetry/PCU experience. Candidates should be confident in interpreting cardiac rhythms, identifying changes, and taking appropriate action. We also prefer individuals who have experience caring for our typical patient populations and are familiar with common diagnoses and related treatments, including pre-/post-cath care, CHF, AKI, COPD, CVA, and ETOH etc. Prior travel experience of one 13 week assignment required. Unit Description: 38 bed unit that is staffed with RNs, CNAs, Critical Care Techs (CCTs) and Advanced Care Techs (ACTs). Patient ratios are determined by patient acuity/workload and are typically 1:4 up to 1:6. CCTs monitor ECG rhythms on all telemetry patients 24/7. ACTs assist with transport, admit and discharge tasks, IV and Foley insertion, ADLs, and limited medication administration. Ancillary staff includes, but is not limited to Rapid Response Team, phlebotomists, EKG technicians, and Respiratory Therapists. Patient population includes treatment of CHF, Alcohol Withdrawal, NSTEMI's, sepsis, dysrhythmias, PNA, COPD, Covid, care of the post-procedure patients including pacemakers, ablations, and cath lab procedures, and OHS patients once downgraded from ICU. Medications include non-titratable cardiac medication drips (Cardizem, Lasix, Nitro, etc). May float to Intensive Care Units for a telemetry/medical appropriate assignment, medical-surgical units, as well Renown South Meadows. Additional Comments: Travelers may be required to float to the needs of the organization up to their competency level. May be required to work major holidays and is required to pick up one additional shift during schedule period (every 4-weeks) . Renown has the right to call off, without penalty, 48 hours, for low census per 13-week contract. This may be full or partial shifts. Schedule varies based upon department needs. Schedule can include weekends, holidays, and some call shifts. Hospital Information: Extremely busy and fast paced environment serving a 500-mile radius. Level 2 trauma center, Stroke accreditation, 800 inpatient bed hospital, 80 ER beds. The volume and pace required to work here are that of level 1 trauma center Hiring Profile Position Purpose This position provides optimal patient care utilizing knowledge and skills within the context of the nursing process. The incumbent is accountable for individualized patient outcomes over an entire episode of care. The incumbent provides comprehensive nursing services to adolescent, adult and geriatric patients, including their families/caregivers. Nature and Scope This position is challenged to diagnose and treat human responses to health problems. The incumbent must provide optimal patient/resident care through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of adolescent, adult, and geriatric residents and families. Demonstrates the cognitive and psychosocial needs specific to the population to be served and meets standards of quality as measured by the unit/department age specific competency standards. This position requires a scientific knowledge base and ongoing growth and learning. When possible the family or those significant to the family are considered as part of the assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation efforts of the Registered Nurse (RN). The RN coordinates care between other professionals as needed. Intensive continuous mental effort is required to provide optimal safe patient care and the same mental effort is required when interacting with internal and external contacts, exercising judgments and making decisions. This position does provide patient care. Comments www.renown.org The Regions Only Level II Trauma Center in Reno, NV At Renown Regional Medical Center, youll find the most advanced care in the region. Our specialists treat complex tumors, stop heart attacks before they do serious damage and preform life-saving surgeries with patients back on their feet in no time. Trauma Center, 2 ERs Renown Regional Medical Center is the only trauma center between Sacramento and Salt Lake City, treating over 80,000 ER and trauma patients a year. We are also home to the regions only childrens hospital, a leading robotic surgery institute, groundbreaking brain and nerve care, and comprehensive heart and cancer services. At the Renown Regional Medical Center, you can reap the benefits of a full range of leading-edge services and procedures performed by expert medical professionals. Our facilities and technologies are state-of-the-art. Heres a quick rundown of procedures and technologies - put to use to improve the health and well-being in our community.
- We instituted the first and only accredited heart failure center in northern Nevada
- We founded northern Nevadas first and only Institute for Neurosciences
- We brought the first low-dose CT imaging to the region
- We brought the Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System to northern Nevada
- We implemented the first dedicated PET/CT scanner, Biplane Angiography and the newest 3T MRI technologies to the region