What are the responsibilities and job description for the Travel Nurse RN - Cardiology - $2,245 per week position at Jewish Hospital?
Certification Details
- ACLS
- BLS
- NIH License
- KY License
- Position Template
- Facility Name: UofL Jewish
- Floor: 4 West
- Location Address: 200 Abraham Flexner Way Louisville, KY 40202
- Role: RN
- Specialty: 4W Pulmonary Intermediate PCU
- Number of Openings: 1
- Shift: 6:45PM - 7:15AM
- Weekly Guaranteed Hours: 36
- Weekend Hours: Every other weekend
- Call Requirements: None
- Years of Experience: 2
- Float Requirements: Yes – Any other PCU or Med Surg
- Number of Beds: 21
- Patient Ratios: 4:1, can go up to 5:1, 3:1 for BiPAP teams
- Equipment: BiPAPS, High flow, and telemetry monitoring, occasional Cardiac Drips
- EMR: Cerner – Preferred
- Required Certifications: ACLS, BLS, NIH & KY License
- Must Have Skills/Experience: Proficient in cardiac monitoring, IV therapy (including PICC line management, dressing changes), IV medications (administration of antibiotics, drips including heparin, nitroglycerin, amiodarone, cardizem) & Tracheostomy Management, Intermediate/step down experience
- Preferred Skillset/Experience: Proficient with BiPAPs and high flow and Proficient with chest tubes, Pulmonary disease management
- Shift: 6:45PM - 7:15AM
- Weekly Guaranteed Hours: 36
- Weekend Hours: Every other weekend
- Call Requirements: None
- Unit Information: 4W Pulmonary Intermediate PCU
- Type of Patients on Unit: Mix
- Personality Fit: Positive attitude, flexibility with changes on the unit, and excellent critical thinking in stressful situations.
- Why work at Jewish Hospital: Academic Medical Center in downtown Louisville
- New Heart Hospital with advanced heart care treatment
- Accredited chest pain center providing comprehensive 24/7 STEMI heart attack care and treatment
- Noted for numerous medical firsts in Kentucky, the nation and the world, Jewish Hospital is the site of the nation's first four-hand transplants, first kidney transplant in 1964, the first open-heart surgery in 1965, the first heart transplant in 1984, and the first-hand transplant in 1999.
- The world's first and second successful AbioCor™ Implantable Replacement Heart transplant, and more recently, the nation's second and third CARMAT Aeson® total artificial heart transplants - one of which was the world's first successful transplant ever performed in a female patient
- The first trial of adult cardiac stem cells in chronic heart failure
- Trager Transplant Center is among a select group of hospitals nationwide approved by Medicare to perform heart, lung, liver, kidney, living donor kidney, pancreas, and vascularized composite allograft (hand) transplants.
Salary : $2,245
