Med-Surg Telemetry Registered Nurse

Med-Surg Telemetry Registered Nurse #26-31096

RN-Registered Nurse // Med Surg / Telemetry $1,568 weekly stipends $16/hour $576 weekly base pay Onsite Contract Starts 10/19/2026 13 weeks

Job Description

Night Shift 12 hours/day 3 days/week

Location:

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53215

Duration: 13 Weeks

Shift: 12hr Night Shift (36)

yes

No On call requirement

every other weekend rotation

one holiday per contract.

yes

• Level III Trauma Center
• Level III NICU
• Magnet Designation
• Comprehensive Stroke Center
• Beds: 933

• Beds: 24 – private rooms (4 rooms are for ventilators)

2 years

• First-time traveler: NO

• Medical: COPD, chest pain, post cardiac cath (recovered in another unit first), COVID, DM, cellulitis, chronic trachs, wounds, ventilators, surgicals, heart failure
  • Average LOS: 5-10 days
• Surgical: laps, no big surgeries
• Vented patients: travelers will care for vented patients- will receive a 2-3hr vent class. RNs only manage the patient, RT manages the vent.

• RN:
• Day/Eves: 1:4-5
• Night: 1:6-7
• Tech:
  • Day: 1:6
  • Nights: 1:8

• RN: BLS

• Wound care required, Surgical/post-op care, IV start skills, Wound vacs, PEG tubes, tube feedings, TPN required, trach care (trachs common on this unit)
• Vent experience required, however there is a class available (3hr class taught by RT, will receive an additional 12hrs of orientation with just vent patients; patients may include but not limited to pts with hypoxic brain injury on a chronic ventilator waiting for placement; max of 4 pts on vents out of 24 beds) – THIS MUST BE AN EXPECTATION OF TRAVELERS BEFORE THEY ARRIVE.
  
  – Please ensure that the traveler has experience with vents and is comfortable with them
• Must have charge experience and is willing and comfortable performing these duties
• Telemetry required

• Charge nurse: light patient assignment if staffing allows
• Unit secretary, 24/7
• Hospitalist, 24/7
• RT, 24/7
• Centralized telemetry monitoring
• Phlebotomy to assist with peripheral blood draws
• IV/VAD team – central lines
  • Techs are able to do glucose, vitals, remove IVs

• EPIC – required
• Alaris
• Pyxis
• Client monitors

• all other MSU
• ED holding – 1:4 ratio
• Travelers first to float

• NEO:
  Epic orientation, badge, log in access
• 12 hr orientation with charge nurse
  • Will assist CRN s patient assignment

• Schedule made 6 week at a time, receive 2 week prior
• Weekend rotation: every other
• RTO:
  Email all RTO to NM Raquel Gonzalez
• On Call:
  None
• Holiday Expectations:
  One holiday per contract
• AAH adheres to a fatigue policy where all staff, including travelers, cannot work more than 60 hours in a week or 5 consecutive 12 hour shifts

• Scrub Color:
  Any - no camo/denim
• Must document pain level, before and after (1 hour) giving pain medications - The pain score must also meet the pain score with nth medication order i.e. if a patient has a score of 8, the RN cannot give the Tylenol that is ordered for mild 1-3. The RN must call for an order if the patient wants Tylenol for the score of 8.
• Parking:
  Main Structure is free
• Culture:
  Fast paced, high acuity, amazing staff culture, highly interactive team members with great communication and team work

• 2 years experience as RN Telemetry
• Able to read and interpret rhythm strips, manage central lines, start IVs and draw blood. Able to titrate the following drips: cardizem, heparin, and insulin.
• a charge nurse
• Chest tubes, drains, traches
• Expert:
  Tracheostomy Management
• high acuity experience
• TPN
• Ventilator

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