RN - ICU

Profession: Nursing

Specialty: Intensive Care / Coronary Nurse

Duration: 13 weeks

Shift: Nights 7p-7a + call

Hours per Shift: 12

Experience: Minimum 3 years

License: Current nursing license

Certifications: BLS, ACLS (advanced cardiac life support)

Must-Have:

• Critical care nursing experience
• Initiation, titration, and management of vasopressors, thrombolytics, antihypertensives, antidiabetics, and sedation
• Ventilator management
• Hemodynamic monitoring
• Telemetry monitoring and interpretation
• Sepsis management
• Central line management
• Arterial line management
• Chest tube management
• Blood administration

Description:

This position involves providing comprehensive nursing care for a variety of critically ill patients.

Patients may include those who are post-surgical, post cardiac catheterizations, and those experiencing respiratory failure, sepsis, DKA, AKI, and unstable arrhythmias.

The critical care nurse will be responsible for managing medication infusion pumps, rapid infusers, bedside cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators, BiPAP/CPAP, and high-flow nasal cannulas.

A bladder scanner may also be utilized.

The nurse-to-patient ratio is 2:1 for critical care and 4:1 for step-down care.

Floater responsibilities to Med/Surg, Tele, Step-Down, and Observation floors may be required.

This position includes a 12-hour shift with call requirements.

A flu vaccine is required with no exceptions.

Candidates must be located outside a specified radius.

Only three days of requests for time off may be made during a 13-week contract.

The facility retains the right to cancel up to three shifts per 13-week assignment, with guaranteed hours not applicable in those cases.

Holiday coverage will be required.