Nurse (Intensive Care Unit)

Registered Nurse

The purpose of this position is to provide comprehensive care to pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients within the Indian Health Service:

• Initiates treatment, medications, emergency and resuscitative measures based on appropriate utilization of standing ICU orders, ACLS protocol, and providers orders.
• Uses critical thinking and nursing judgement to recognize changes and characteristics that may affect the patient's health status.
• Administers therapeutic measures as prescribed by the physician such as medication treatments, intravenous fluids, blood transfusion, nasogastric tubes, internal and external catheters, wound care, etc.
• Observes and assesses critically ill patient's health status by conducting a nursing assessment and examination, interviewing patient and family members and reviewing patient's health history and ongoing hemodynamic monitoring.
• Develops a plan of care for individual patients by assessing the patient's condition and reviewing the patient's health record, determining and evaluating the kind of nursing care required by assessing the individual needs and goals of each patient.
• Maintaining required certifications such ACLS and BLS.

Department of Health and Human Services