Cardiovascular Telemetry Unit

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (online degrees/diplomas are not accepted)
• Current Nursing (RN) license in North America, Western Europe, or Australia/New Zealand
• Minimum two years of current experience as a Registered Nurse in the specialty area, working in a mid- to large-sized acute-care hospital in North America, Western Europe, or Australia/New Zealand

Department Information

The Cardio-Vascular Telemetry Care Unit at our client hospital provides nursing care for adult and pediatric cardiac patients requiring:

• Various forms of cardiovascular surgeries, including CABG, valve repair/replacement, heart transplantation, and congenital cardiac anomaly repairs.
• Correction of pediatric cardiac congenital anomalies with definitive surgeries such as arterial switch, VSD repair, ASD repair, AVSD correction, PDA, SAMR, TOF correction, Rastelli procedure, Fontan procedure, DORV correction, RVOT correction, PA augmentations, and palliative procedures.
• Vascular surgeries including Fem-pop bypass, amputation, and AAA repair.

Frequent Procedures/Services/Functions:

• Use of nursing process: assessment, planning, interventions, and evaluation.
• Continuous cardiac telemetry monitoring with dysrhythmia interpretation and treatment.
• Continuous nursing assessments and evaluation of patient's physical and emotional needs and corresponding therapeutic interventions.
• Therapeutic modalities including chest tube insertion, maintenance and removal, temporary external pacing, maintenance and removal of epicardial pacing wires, permanent invasive pacing, emergency resuscitation, defibrillation/emergency cardioversion, open chest resuscitations, maintenance of pericardial catheters, and peritoneal dialysis.
• Medication delivery and pharmacological interventions including non-titratable doses of intravenous vasoactive and antiarrhythmic drugs, anticoagulation, and immunosuppressive therapy.
• Blood products administration.
• Central and peripheral vascular line blood draws.
• Maintenance and removal of central lines.
• Oxygen therapy and pulse oximetry.
• Maintenance and weaning off tracheostomy tubes.
• Maintenance of skin integrity.
• Nutritional support (enteral feedings, TPN, calorie counts).
• Infection control and safety management.
• Psychosocial and emotional support.
• Patient and family education.

Company Industry

• Medical
• Medical Devices

Department / Functional Area

• Doctor
• Nurse
• Paramedics
• Medical Research

Keywords

• Cardiovascular Telemetry Unit