Travel Cardiovascular ICU Registered Nurse

Travel Cardiovascular ICU Registered Nurse - $3,010 per week at Health Trust Workforce Solution External summary:
This travel nursing position is for a Registered Nurse specializing in Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) duties in Lewiston, Maine, working 36 hours per week over a 13-week assignment. Required qualifications include RN licensure, ACLS, BLS, NIH certifications, and a minimum of 2 years nursing experience with recent CVICU exposure. The role involves care of critical and intermediate adult and geriatric patients using advanced life support equipment in a 20-bed unit with various shift schedules and no local candidates accepted.
Health Trust Workforce Solution External is seeking a travel nurse RN CVICU for a travel nursing job in Lewiston, Maine.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: CVICU

• Discipline: RN

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Start Date:

• Duration: 13 weeks

• 36 hours per week

• Shift: 12 hours, days, nights

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Employment Type:

Travel

• Shift: 6:45AM - 7:15PM

• Weekly Guaranteed

Hours:

36, will consider 48 hours

• Weekend

Hours:

3 weekends per 6-week schedule block

• Call Requirements:
None

• Required

Certifications:

ACLS, BLS, NIH

• Years of

Experience:

2 years, more than 1 year recent CVICU experience

• Float Requirements:
Must be flexible to float where need, could include ICU, MS, Tele & ER

• Additional Notes:
No Local Candidates
Unit Information:

• Number of Beds: 20

• Patient Ratios:
Intermediate care level patients are 1:3 and critical care are 1:2 or 1:1 depending on acuity.

• Equipment:
Impella, Balloon pump and ECMO/Tandem Heart, Ceiling lifts, hoyer lifts, sit to stand lifts, extensive amount of safe-patient handling equipment.

• EHR:
Cerner

• Patient Population e.g. “geriatric, adult, peds, etc.”:
Adult, Geriatric
Hiring Profile:

• Must Have Skills/

Experience:

CCRN, open heart training preferred

• Preferred Skillset/

Experience:

• Common Diagnosis/Treatment: 8 beds are CICU & 12 beds are Step-Down; CICU:
Post-op CABG post-op AVR, MVR, post-op vascular and endovascular surgery, post cardiac interventional service including ECMO, heart failure requiring Impella device support, angioplasty and stent placement.
PCU:
Includes the above diagnoses plus sepsis, respiratory and multi-system failure, diabetic keto acidosis, encephalopathy & post-op general surgical patients requiring a higher level of care.

• Personality Fit:

• Required

Education:

Dress Code:

• Scrub Color:
Navy Blue
Keywords:
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