Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit - $2,664 per week

Integrated Healthcare Services is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Lexington, Kentucky.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: ICU - Intensive Care Unit
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, nights
• Employment Type: Travel

Job Title: RN-Intensive Care Unit

Location: Lexington, KY

Job Summary: The RN implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness. Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research as well as hospital and department policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines. Clinical decision-making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process, critical thinking, and creativity. Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines. Responsibilities include coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care activities on the unit through nursing rounds, assessments, treatments, facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities, patient and family-centered education, care coordination, and individualized treatment planning.

Required Qualifications:

• Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the applicable state
• BLS, ACLS certification
• No prior experience required
• Ability to assess age-specific patient safety issues and implement appropriate safety devices
• Effective, clear, and respectful communication skills
• Ability to collaborate with other care team members

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous nursing experience
• CVICU experience and experience with recovering open heart positions
• EPIC experience

Required Education:

• ADN or ASN

Preferred Education:

• BSN

Integrated Healthcare Services Job ID #37762799. Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36.0 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined. Posted job title: RN-Intensive Care Unit