Rn Jobs in Port St Lucie

The Travel Registered Nurse (RN) - Telemetry works in the Clinical Decision Unit (CDU), which serves adult short-stay patients who are hemodynamically stable and in observation status. Patients may be observed for up to 23 hours; clinical decisions about admission or discharge are made before the 23rd hour. If a full admission is needed, the physician must enter full admission orders into Meditech before the 24-hour mark. The unit has 12 beds and a patient ratio of 5:1. Staffing includes patient care technicians, central telemetry monitoring, and a charge nurse. The role uses Meditech for documentation and requires 12-hour shifts with a weekend rotation. The nurse is first to float. The unit is a medical-telemetry level of care.