Premier Medical Staffing Services is seeking a travel nurse RN Med Surg / Telemetry for a travel nursing job in Macon, Georgia.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Med Surg / Telemetry
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 12/08/2025
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Minimum Years of Experience required? 2 years Med/Tele RN experience
- Will you accept a first-time traveler? Yes
- RN License (Associate's degree at a minimum)
- BLS, ACLS, and NIHSS required
- BCR (Basic Cardiac Rhythm) test completed during onboarding
- Floating: All adult med surg / telemetry units in house
- Weekend rotation: 5-6 weekend shifts out of 12 (on a 6-week schedule)
- On call? If so, what is that schedule? No call
- Holiday Expectations: work one shift of each major holiday (Thanksgiving Day or day after + 12/24 or 12/25 + 12/31 or 1/1
- RTO Requests: Manager approval
- Shift times: 12-hour shifts 7A-7P or 7P-7A
- Schedule cycle: every 6 weeks
ADDITIONAL DETAILS:
- Patient Ratios: RN: 1:4-6
- Orientation (facility and unit): 1 day orientation with work on educational modules
- Orientation (facility and unit): 2 days departmental
MORE INFORMATION:
- Description: RN - MedSurg/Tele
- About Facility: 777 Hemlock St, Macon, GA 31201
- About Facility: 637 Licensed Beds
- About Facility: Level 1 Trauma Designation
- About Facility: Teaching Hospital
- About Facility: Chest Pain Center
- About Facility: Stroke Center
- Unit Information: Beds: 16
- Unit Information: Avg Census 16 patients
- Patient Types/Common Diagnoses: Chest pain, syncope/vomiting, abdominal pain, cellulitis, COPD exacerbation, heart failure observation, dehydration, hypertension, diabetes, POD#1 requiring hospital stay overnight, simple trauma, MVC, fall
- Patient Types/Common Diagnoses: Waiting an Inpatient Room for admission (used to decompress the ER)
- Skills required: trach chare, chest tube management, PIV starts, glucommander, insulin drips, heparin drips, drips to titrate to HR NOT BP
- Skills required: Strong clinical assessment and time management
- Skills required: IV insertion and Maintenance skills
- Skills required: Cardiac monitoring and interpretation
- Skills required: Care coordination with interdisciplinary teams
- Skills required: Discharge planning knowledge and patient education
- Support within the Department: CNA: assist with VS, Glucose Checks, baths, feeding, ambulating patients, assisting turning patients, hourly rounding, transporting patients as needed (Hospital has designated Transport Team); obtain blood from blood bank
- Support within the Department: Unit secretary on unit 7a-11p; then house wide call secretary 11p-7a
- Support within the Department: Charge nurse may or may not have patient assignment
- Support within the Department: Phlebotomy: Most units are lab collect phlebotomy; nurses drawn from CVLs
- Support within the Department: IV/VAT Team? No IV team- do have a PICC team
- Support within the Department: Resource Nurse? Yes, we have discharge nurses and Resource team floats to all units
- Support within the Department: RT 24/7
- Support within the Department: Hospitalist 24/7
- Support within the Department: Intensivist 24/7
- Support within the Department: Telemetry monitoring/tech? Central Telemetry Unit
- Technology/Equipment: EMR: EPIC
- Technology/Equipment: IV Pump: Alaris
- Technology/Equipment: Med dispensing: Pyxis
- Technology/Equipment: Monitors: Phillips
- Technology/Equipment: Unit specific equipment: VS3 vital sign monitors, Nova Glucose Stat Strips Cardiac Telemetry monitoring
- Technology/Equipment: Unit specific equipment: Portable vital signs monitors (Dynamapp)
- Technology/Equipment: Unit specific equipment: Bladder scanners, IV pump, portable oxygen system
- Technology/Equipment: Unit specific equipment: Glucommander
- Technology/Equipment: Unit specific equipment: PCA pain management
- Technology/Equipment: Unit specific equipment: Suction machine
- Technology/Equipment: Unit specific equipment: Use of admission/ discharge protocol for rapid turnover
- Other notes: Scrub Color: RN- Navy; LPN- Ceil Blue
- Other notes: Parking: Free? Have free parking around campus or can pay to park in parking decks
- Other notes: Unit Culture: busy but work as team
- Other notes: Unit will bed patients to this unit from the ER that are waiting on an Inpatient Admission Bed
- Other notes: High turnover of patients
About Premier Medical Staffing Services
Premier Medical Staffing Services, LLC is a nationally expanding healthcare staffing firm for healthcare professionals and companies. We understand our clients’ need for highly qualified, expertly trained medical professionals and are passionate about helping clinicians find employment opportunities that fit their personality and needs. Able to accommodate the ever-changing needs of the healthcare landscape, we offer per-diem, contract and direct hire placements to support the unique needs of each industry sector. Premier Medical Staffing Services is Joint Commission Certified, a Military Spouse Employment Partner and is certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise. We are proudly nurse owned.
