Job Description
Job Description
Consolidated Medical Travel is seeking a travel nurse RN Float Med Surg / Telemetry for a travel nursing job in Chandler, Arizona.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Med Surg / Telemetry
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 01/19/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
Trauma Level
Charting System
🚨 OFFER & SCREENING REQUIREMENTS (MUST READ) 🚨Auto Offer
Dysrhythmia Exam (REQUIRED)
- Must be completed within 48 hours of offer
- Maximum 2 attempts
- Required PRIOR to contract signing
- Failure outcome:
- Traveler will be sent home
- DNU for 6 months for CommonSpirit Health AZ & Sacramento regions
Simulation Lab (Day 1 of Orientation)
- Pass/Fail Sim Lab required
- Failure outcome:
- Traveler will be sent home
- DNU for 6 months
🚨 CLINICAL REQUIREMENT 🚨
- MUST be able to TITRATE CARDIAC DRIPS
Floating Expectations (MANDATORY)
- Floating is required
- Travelers will float between all Telemetry and Med/Surg units
- Depending on skillset, floating may include:
- ICU (within scope/competency)
- Cardiac Tele
- All Tele units
- Med/Surg units
- Holding areas (Cath Lab, ER, Observation, hallway holds)
Campus Floating
- Floating occurs between:
- Chandler Campus
- Mercy Gilbert Campus
- Distance: 9 miles (≈15 minutes, all interstate)
- Notification of campus/unit provided 1.5 hours prior to shift start
- Mid-shift unit floating can occur
- Rare, but possible to float campuses mid-shift
- Must clock out when leaving one campus and clock in upon arrival at the other
UNIT DETAILS
CV Telemetry –
B3A - Beds: 32
- Certifications: BLS, ACLS
- Ratios: 1:3–4
- Charge Nurse: Yes (no patient assignment)
- Clinical Supervisor: Yes
- PCTs: 1 per 16 patients
- Weekend Requirement: Every other weekend
- Scrubs: Navy
- Telemetry: Centralized; RNs must interpret EKGs
- Vents: No
- Providers: Hospitalist days / on-call nights
- IV Team: No
- RT / Pharmacy: 24/7
- Shifts: 12 hrs (7–7)
- Orientation: 2 days on unit
- Floating: Similar or lower acuity
- Common Patients:
- Post-Cath Lab
- Post-vascular procedures
- Day-2 CABG
- General Tele
- Drips (Titration Required):
- Amiodarone
- Cardene
- Nitroglycerin
- Heparin
- Dobutamine (titrate down only )
- Age Range: 15 years and older (no pediatrics)
Neuro Telemetry –
A3 Neuro - Beds: 28
- Certifications: BLS, ACLS, NIHSS
- Ratios: 1:3–4
- Charge Nurse: Yes (no patient assignment)
- Clinical Supervisor: Yes
- PCTs: 1 per 16 patients
- Weekend Requirement: Every other weekend
- Scrubs: Navy
- Telemetry: Centralized; RNs must interpret EKGs
- Vents: No
- Providers: Hospitalist days / on-call nights
- IV Team: No
- RT / Pharmacy: 24/7
- Shifts: 12 hrs (7–7)
- Orientation: 2 days on unit
- Common Patients:
- Neuro post-surgical
- Post-craniotomy
- Spine surgeries
- CVA patients post-TPA
- Additional Notes: No ICP monitoring
Medical-Surgical –
C5- Beds: 32
- Specialties: Ortho, Surgical, Oncology
- Certifications: BLS, ACLS
- Ratios: 1:4 (days & nights)
- Charge Nurse: Yes (no patient assignment)
- Unit Supervisor: Yes
- PCTs:
- Days: PCTs
- Nights: 1 PCT or Task RN
- Weekend Requirement:
- 4 weekend shifts per 4-week schedule
- Days: Sat/Sun
- Nights: Fri/Sat
- Holiday Requirement: 1 major & 1 minor holiday
- Scrubs: Navy
- Telemetry: GE Monitors (central monitoring tech)
- IV Team: No (SWAT RN available for difficult IVs)
- RT / Pharmacy: 24/7 (ICU pharmacist days)
- Shifts: 12 hrs (7–7)
- Floating: To MedSurg Tele B2C & B2D
- Orientation: 2 shifts
- Patient Mix:
- 80% Surgical / 20% Oncology
- Ortho (JCAHO-certified knee & hip program)
- Urological, abdominal, Whipple, women’s surgeries (no OB/GYN)
- Additional Notes: Spectralink phones (call light linked)
Medical-Surgical –
B2C - Beds: 29
- Certifications: BLS, ACLS
- Ratios: 1:4 (days & nights)
- Charge Nurse: Yes (no patient assignment)
- Unit Supervisor: Yes
- PCTs:
- Days: PCTs
- Nights: 1 PCT or SWAT RN
- Weekend Requirement:
- 4 weekend shifts per 4-week schedule
- Holiday Requirement: 1 major & 1 minor holiday
- Scrubs: Navy
- Telemetry: GE Monitors (central monitoring tech)
- IV Team: No (SWAT RN available)
- RT / Pharmacy: 24/7
- Shifts: 12 hrs (7–7)
- Floating: To MedSurg Tele C5 & B2D
- Orientation: 2 shifts
- Patient Mix:
- General MedSurg Tele
- Amiodarone & Cardizem (titrate down only )
- Additional Notes:
- New-grad training unit
- New grads train 4 weeks with a Clinical Scholar
- Auto Offer off Prescreen Recommendation
Job Tags
Contract work, Shift work, Night shift, Weekend work,