RN - MS

Nurse Practitioner

Must have at least 1 year of MS experience. Will be required to titrate drips (no cardiac drip titrations): heparin, bumex, Lasix. Common diagnoses/Types of patients: Pneumonia, UTI, AMS, GI bleed, Alcohol w/d, falls/weakness. Nurse to patient ratios are 1:5-7 on days and 1:6-8 on nights. 4-5 patient care techs on each shift. RT will administer breathing treatments, inhalers, ABGs, and manage Resp equipment such as Bipap, Cpap, & high flow O2, RNs typically not required to do anything except monitor, RT performs checks. Monitor tech is located on level 5, reads and monitors the teles of all patients on a telemetry and calls if there is a problem with the monitor; nurses not expected to be able to read and interpret tele. May be floated to any other MS, MS-Tele, or IMC for lower acuity pts on the floor.