Travel Nurse RN - Telemetry - $2,090 per week in New York City, NY

Job Title: Registered Nurse Profession: RN Specialty: Telemetry Duration: 13 weeks Shift: Night Shift Hours per Shift: 12.5 hours Experience: Minimum 2 years RN experience, 2 years Telemetry and Med-Surg experience preferred. License: Valid RN License Certifications: Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Must-Have: Telemetry experience, Ventilator experience, Epic system experience preferred. Description: Registered Professional Nurse who provides safe, competent quality care based on nursing theory and research to a designated group of patients and significant others. Delivers patient care by incorporating the tenets of the professional practice model of Relationship Centered Care and through the application of the nursing process based upon theory, research, evidence-based practice, and approved organizational nursing standards. Assesses and evaluates patient care needs and applies critical thinking skills in patient care management. Integrates relevant assessment and intervention skills in the delivery of nursing care. Collaborates with the interdisciplinary healthcare team in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the plan of care. Prioritizes all aspects of patient care, including teaching, rounding, coaching, and planning after hospital care while delegating to others as appropriate. Educates patients and caregivers about their plan of care, transition of care, promotion of health, and prevention of disease while anticipating needs and readiness to learn. Communicates effectively and professionally with patients, family, and all members of the interdisciplinary patient care team. Manages assignments within the care delivery model and demonstrates effective allocation of material resources. Role models relationship-centered care principles through facilitation of various patient care actions. Considers patients' values, preferences, cultural diversity, expressed needs, and knowledge in all aspects of care. Establishes and maintains a therapeutic relationship with patients and families. Uses evidence-based practices to enhance understanding of patients' perceptions of care. Implements service recovery for patients and family members and escalates concerns as needed. Demonstrates caring, respect, compassion, empathy, and active listening through dialogue, body language, and actions. Supports staff in evidence-based practices to increase understanding of patients' perceptions of care. Conducts purposeful hourly rounding on assigned patients addressing key patient safety factors. Practices safe and efficient patient-centered care while identifying and escalating barriers and opportunities for improvement. Demonstrates clinical skills and knowledge crucial to quality and safety in the patient population served. Implements process improvement strategies based on institutional, evidence-based processes. Engages in formal and informal peer and institutional review processes. Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to create and implement quality improvement projects, evidence-based practice activities, and nursing research studies. Contributes to quality and safety practices and compliance measures. Implements principles of high reliability to identify and avoid high-risk behaviors to provide a safe environment for patients. Escalates potential safety hazards or gaps from best practice following institutional protocols. Utilizes information technology by documenting nursing practice to support quality and performance improvement initiatives. Performs charge nurse duties as assigned. Coordinates with management to ensure supplies are appropriately utilized and inventory is sufficient for patient care. Escalates material or staffing resource deficits to appropriate leadership. Demonstrates patient-focused and cost-effective approaches to patient care. Documents in an accurate and thorough manner in compliance with regulatory and legal requirements and standards of care. Facilitates patient throughput on a shift basis. Contributes to the environment of care to support clinical colleagues, patients, and their families. Advances clinical competence in nursing practice to enhance expertise. Projects a professional image and communicates with a style that demonstrates caring and respect. Incorporates ethical principles into decision-making for patients and families. Encourages a spirit of scholarship, inquiry, life-long learning, and innovation for self and others. Participates in shared decision-making through nursing department committees, practice councils, and unit initiatives.

Location: New York City, New York, US

Posted Date: 7/22/2025