Registered Nurse - ICU

Travel Nurse Position

RTO after booking is not allowed and is not allowed to be worked out onsite. Any call offs or additional RTO on unit, could possibly turn into a cancel and DNR. ***No block scheduling*** runs more like an ICU. Strong drip experience is a must. Required skills/certs/exp: Minimum years of experience: 2 years of experience needed. Traveler experience: accepts 1st time travelers. Locals accepted / rate difference: yes. Required skills: must have experience with arterial lines and titrating vasoactive drips, PCU/DOU/IMC/stepdown, telemetry, interpretation of dysrhythmias, management of dysrhythmias, telemetry - on the unit monitoring, use of rapid response teams, IV insulin protocols, blood product administration, central line care/management, peripheral line care/management, PICC line management, heparin protocols, CVA, chest tubes-Emerson/Pleur-evac, external CPAP/BIPAP, high flow nasal cannula (HFNC), nasal cannula, non-invasive airway management, tracheostomy management, isolation precautions. Required: ACLS, BCLS, NIH certifications, as well as experience with IV start, telemetry and conscious sedation.

Job details:

• Target ratios: 1:3-4. Unit will accept 13 week length or longer, through 2/27 end date. *36 or 48 hours can be offered.
• 12 hour nights
• RTO: 7 days max for Aya auto offer
• No block scheduling
• Float requirement: floating required as needed to sister unit which is an ICCU also.
• Weekend requirement: every other weekend.

Patient diagnoses: ADC: 18 with 20 beds. ICU stepdown. Post rapid response team patients, respiratory distress, unstable hemodynamics, withdrawal, GI bleeds, post-op: GYN, GU, GI, thoracotomies, neuro, ortho surgeries. Pre/post OB with complications (Pitocin). Patient age from adolescent, adult, geriatric.

Special procedures/unit details: Only one pressor drip per patient, any more and they're transferred to ICU. Cardizem, nitro, Precedex, Cardene, Levophed, Dopamine, Dobutamine, Neo drips given on unit. Special equipment: bedside telemetry monitors with remote backup. Nurses must be able to recognize and treat dysrhythmias. A-lines, BIPAP's, chest tubes, trach's, there are no vents on unit.