I am a director of a Progressive Care/Telemetry Unit. The basic rule is that the Charge RN needs to be Telemetry, acls competent. The saftey of the pateits can depend upon this as the Charge may need...
According to the AACN (American Association of Critical Care Nurses), Telemetry, Step Down, and Progressive Care units are the same. The original name for the teams was telemetry or step down....
I am a Director of a Progressive Care Unit. When interviewing candidates I look for certain things. Correctional background nursing is a good experience that I would readily look at. These nurses can...