New Graduate Registered Nurse (Telemetry)

Our academic medical centre trains residents and fellows in over 40 specialties. We operate a Level I trauma centre, a children's hospital and a complete stroke centre. We started in 1950 and have grown to about 350 people. Most units hold a five-minute huddle at the start of every shift.

Lombardo Poliambulatorio is looking for a New Graduate Registered Nurse (Telemetry) to join a small, steady team. This is a bedside role at a Rome acute care hospital with shared governance and a clinical ladder. Our Med/Surg unit has 32 beds with a 1:5 ratio on days and 1:6 on nights. We need an RN who can start strong. On site, Rome.

Duties:

• Educate patients and families on new medications, wound care and discharge instructions.
• Monitor vital signs, telemetry and lab results, and escalate changes to the provider or rapid response team.
• Perform wound care, dressing changes and pressure injury prevention.
• Start and maintain peripheral IVs, and manage central lines, PICCs and drains.
• Collect specimens and make sure they are labeled correctly and sent to the lab on time.
• Coordinate discharge planning with case management, PT/OT and pharmacy.
• Administer medications, IV fluids and blood products per policy and provider orders.
• Give bedside shift report using SBAR and complete hourly rounding.

You'll need:

• 1+ years of acute care experience preferred; new grads considered for the residency program.
• Able to float to sister units within competency.
• Ability to stand and walk for most of a 12-hour shift and lift or reposition patients with assistance.

Also helpful:

• CCRN, CEN, PCCN or other specialty certification.
• BSN, or enrolled in an RN-to-BSN program.

Schedule: Rotating days and nights, 36 hours per week, every other weekend

What you get:

• Private health insurance.
• Paid training.
• Training budget.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Lombardo Poliambulatorio.