Telemetry Nurse

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Hello all!

I am a new graduate that has been applying for jobs at a local hospital. I applied for all the open positions that I am qualified for and ended up getting a call back for an interview for a Telemetry RN. I have tried to figure out what exactly that means, what type of floor I would be working on, patients etc. I can only seem to find a very general definition. So any other information that you can provide to me would be absolutely wonderful!

I have three interviews set up for next week, so any advice on that would be great. What to be prepared for, what kind of questions to ask and things of that nature.

Thank you!

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Specializes in Critical care.

It varies greatly between facilities and even units. This will be a great question to ask on your interview.

I think tele is a great place to start- but I'm biased since I started there :).

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Specializes in Med surg/tele.

I would assume this would be a med/surg type of unit with patients needing cardiac monitoring. Some hospital units that are telemetry are very much cardiac units, others can be various medical issues but a need for cardiac monitoring.

i would ask what kind of variety of diagnoses you get on this unit, nurse/patient ratio, aide to patient ratio.

I work on the medical unit of my hospital (community hospital)and a large number of patients are on telemetry. We don't do cardiac drips. Some tele units may. we do mainly three shifts. Some

people work 12 hours too.

Days and evenings are generally 5-6 patients per nurse with about 12 per aide. Night shift is 6-8 patients per nurse 15 per aide.

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It varies greatly between facilities and even units. This will be a great question to ask on your interview.

I think tele is a great place to start- but I'm biased since I started there :).

Thank you very much!

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It varies greatly between facilities and even units. This will be a great question to ask on your interview.

I think tele is a great place to start- but I'm biased since I started there :).

Hehe

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Hello all!

I am a new graduate that has been applying for jobs at a local hospital. I applied for all the open positions that I am qualified for and ended up getting a call back for an interview for a Telemetry RN. I have tried to figure out what exactly that means, what type of floor I would be working on, patients etc. I can only seem to find a very general definition. So any other information that you can provide to me would be absolutely wonderful!

I have three interviews set up for next week, so any advice on that would be great. What to be prepared for, what kind of questions to ask and things of that nature.

Thank you!

That can mean so many things. At one local hospital that means that all units are telemetry. For those on the monitors they have one person that checks the monitors for that unit. In my hospital a true telemetry floor is an intermediate/ICU step down and all of the nurses must be able to read strips. In fact, if you fail your competency they will boot you to med-surg and you can't even work there. All of our patients must be on the monitor and we get alerts on our phones too. We also have med-surg floors that can have patients on the monitor, but the nurses there don't read strips or pay attention to the monitors- a monitor tech does it for them.

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The cardiac telemetry unit at the hospital I've done clinicals at handles acute stable MIs, dysrhythmias, CHF, stable cath patients, renal disease, and GI bleeds.

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