Travel RN - Cardiovascular ICU

Travel RN - Cardiovascular ICU

American Traveler

New Bern, North Carolina, United States

Assignment type: travel

Shift: Nights

Length (weeks): 13

Openings: 1

$2,239.00/week (estimated advertised weekly pay)

Description

American Traveler is hiring a CVICU RN with open heart surgery, ECMO, Impella, and IABP experience for a 13-week night shift assignment.

Details

• Cardiovascular ICU setting receiving patients directly from the OR
• Patient population includes sedated, intubated adults and geriatrics on multiple drips with a swan line
• Patient ratios of 1:1-2
• Night shift schedule, 3x12 hours, 1900-0700
• Every other weekend required
• Floating required to ED, ICU, and CVIMC as needed
• Uses swan-ganz catheters, temp pacers, pericardial and pleural chest tubes, Impella, IABP, CRRT, and Prismaflex
• Responsibilities include vent management and titration of gtts

Requirements

• Active RN license (NC or Compact) required
• Current certifications: BLS, ACLS, and NIHSS
• Minimum 2 years of CVICU experience with open heart surgery experience required
• Previous charge nurse experience preferred
• Skills required include arterial line management, central line care, PICC line management, and blood product administration
• Ventilator management, ABG interpretation, and suctioning (ETT, NT) experience required
• CRRT/CVVHD experience for acute/chronic renal failure required
• Experience with continuous IV sedation and titrating cardiac and vasoactive drips required
• Experience managing post cardiac surgery patients directly from the OR required
• Pulmonary artery line/swan ganz monitoring experience required
• Experience with dysrhythmia interpretation and management required
• IV insulin protocol experience required
• Experience managing multisystem organ dysfunction/failure required
• Two professional references from assignments worked within the last 12 months required, with references within 6 months preferred

Additional Information

• Provide critical care nursing to complex cardiovascular surgical patients
• Skills such as ECMO, sheath removal, TAVR, and GI surgery experience are preferred but not required
• Phlebotomy and port accessing/management skills are preferred
• Travelers are expected to float within the hospital as needed
• Candidates must reside at least 50 miles from the facility and local candidates will not be accepted
• Previous staff or travelers must be separated from the facility for at least 1 year and in good standing to be eligible for return

Hours per week: 36

Hours per shift: 12