Staff nurse for emergency department vs telemetry registered nurse

Differences between staff nurse for emergency department and telemetry registered nurse duties and responsibilities

Staff nurse for emergency department example responsibilities.

• Maintain current professional practice standards, complete education in telemetry, and attain ACLS certification.
• Manage nursing interventions for stabilization of critically ill patients and continually monitor, intervene as needed in their care.
• Maintain BLS, ACLS and TCRN certifications.
• Stabilize patients in crisis using BLS and ALS protocols.
• Monitor patients for irregular rhythms; interpret rhythms strips and EKG's.
• Assign team members and coordinate rapid response team during transfer of patients to the ICU or tertiary hospitals.
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Telemetry registered nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage patient pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention, monitor patient response and record care plans accordingly.
• Care for patients suffering from CHF, post-MI, unstable angina, and various other cardiac disorders.
• Discharge planning and teaching for post myocardial infarction and angina patients.
• Work with certify ACLS team members to resuscitate patients in cardiac arrest.
• Receive patients from PACU, doctors' offices and ER to the floor for admission.
• Provide services including but not limit to; triage of patients, daily care of wounds and diabetic needs.
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