Registered Nurse, Telemetry

About This Role

This full-time day position on a telemetry unit involves providing safe, organized care to patients through assessment, medication administration, treatment, and care plan development. The nurse collaborates with doctors, families, and other healthcare team members to ensure patient needs are met, care is improved, and safety concerns are addressed.

Responsibilities

• Utilize the nursing process and collaborate with interdisciplinary team members in caring for patients
• Administer prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with approved nursing techniques, policies and procedures, standards of care, and State laws practice act
• Document according to standards of care
• Perform assessments, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care
• Develop, initiate, and execute a patient plan of care according to the individualized needs of the patient, as prescribed by Physician and or clinic policy including patient and family instruction
• Participate in department or unit performance improvement activities, which may include shared governance
• Utilize clinical expertise and guidance to other units’ departments in support of the patient’s longitudinal plan of care
• Utilize critical thinking regarding patient safety and patient experience and appropriately escalate to the appropriate chain of command
• Participate in the professional nursing continuum process, unit practice activities and decisions and peer review process

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited nursing program
• ADN required upon hire, BSN preferred
• May require specific years of applicable experience to qualify (per department guidelines)
• Licensed as an RN in state of practice
• Approved CPR/BLS certification required within 90 days
• Other certification(s) per unit requirements (e.g., ACLS, PALS, PEARS, and NRP)
• Passing the Driver’s License Check and or Credit Check (for those positions requiring)
• Passing the WI Caregiver Background Check and or IL Health Care Workers Background Check
• Must be able to follow written or oral instructions
• May include color blind test (per department guidelines)

Important Details

• Schedule: 36 hours per week, days

About the Company

The work environment typically has a moderate noise level. The role involves occupational exposure for all partners in this job classification. Patients served include neonates (birth – 28 days), infants (29 days – less than 1 year), pediatric (1 year – 12 years), adolescents (13 years – 17 years), adults (18 years – 64 years), and geriatric (65 years and older). Partners may access patient care information needed to perform their job duties. The work contact group includes partners, physicians, patients’ family, visitors, and vendors. Special physical demands for RN Hospital, RN Home Health and Hospice, RN Oncology roles include regularly walking, talking or hearing; frequently standing, using hands to finger, handle, or feel, and reaching with hands and arms; occasionally sitting and stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling. The employee must frequently lift and or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus. For RN Clinic and Ambulatory RN’s, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear; frequently stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and reach with hands and arms; and occasionally required to perform other duties.