Shift: Night 3x12-Hour (19:00 - 07:30)

Description: RECENT ICU EXPERIENCE REQUIRED - HIGH ACUITY ICU EXPERIENCE HIGHLY PREFERRED ICU RN

Start date:Ratios: 1:2

Years of experience REQ: 2

First-timers accepted: Yes

Weekend REQ: Every other

Certs REQ: ACLS, BCLS

Is on-call REQ?: No

Will this traveler need to float between like units? Yes, DSU

Open to accommodating block schedule? Per manager discretion

Pending License accepted: No

RTO Restrictions: RTO must be included at time of submission

Guaranteed Hours: facility is able to call off once per two week pay period

Hospital Highlights
• Type of Facility: Acute Care Hospital, MAGNET!
• Total Staffed Beds: 426
• Scrub Color: RNs: Royal Blue L&D/OR: provided
• Charting: Epic
• Parking Cost: Free Parking!

COVID-19 Vaccine: Not Required

Flu Vaccine: Unknown

Skills:
• Accessing/Managing Ports*
• Arterial line management
• Assist with Chest Tube Insertion/Removal
• Assist with management of BiPAP
• Assist with management of CPAP
• Blood Product Administration
• Care of Ventilated Patient
• Central line care/management
• Chemotherapy Administration*
• Chronic/Acute Renal failure
• Continuous IV sedation
• CVA/Acute Stroke management
• External ventricular drain (EVD)
• GI surgery
• High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)
• Hypothermia protocol/Arctic Sun
• ICP monitoring
• Infection Prevention
• Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs)
• Interpretation of dysrhythmias
• Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP)*
• Isolation Precautions/PPE
• IV insulin protocols
• Management of dysrhythmias
• Management of patient with multisystem organ dysfunction/failure
• Neuro Intensive Care Unit*
• Phlebotomy
• PICC line management
• Post Cardiac Surgery (Not directly from the OR)*
• Post Neurosurgery management
• Pre/Post Cardiac Cath/intervention
• Procedural Sedation Administration/Monitoring
• Pulmonary Artery Line/Swan Ganz monitoring*
• Sheath Removal*
• Spinal cord injury*
• Starting and maintaining IVs
• Suctioning (ETT, NT)
• Surgical Intensive Care Unit
• Surgical Wounds with drains/Wound Vac
• Titrate Cardiac drips
• Titrate Vasoactive drips
• Transcatheter Aortic Valve implantation/Replacement (TAVI/TAVR)*
• Traumatic Brain injury*

Unit Details

Staffing & Scheduling
• Scheduling Type: block
• Patient Ratios Days: 2
• Patient Ratios Nights: 2
• Patient Ratios Weekends: 2
• Float Required: DSU
• Call Required: -
• Weekend Coverage: True
• Number of Weekend Shifts Per Contract: -
• Pre-Approved Time Off: one
• Orientation Hours: 24

Facility & Patient Care Details
• Patient Age Groups: Adolescents, Adults, Geriatrics
• Daily Census: 18
• Number of Visits Per Day: 0
• Number of Rooms: 20
• Number of Beds: 20

Additional Unit Information

Interdisciplinary Support:
• IV Teams
• Physical Therapy
• Respiratory Services
• Interpretation Services
• Phlebotomy
• Radiology
• Social Services
• Lift Teams
• Rapid Response Teams
• Pharmacy
• Transportation
• Unit Secretary

Patient Diagnoses: Primary diagnoses cared for in this unit are:
• Respiratory failure
• Pneumonia
• Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
• Acute Myocardial Infarction
• Pacemaker Failure
• Shock
• Diabetic Ketoacidosis
• Sepsis
• Stroke
• Craniotomy
• Acute Renal Failure
• Renal transplant
• Cardiac Surgery
• Multi-System Organ FailureAcute drug overdose

Special Procedures/Unit Details:
• Post-angioplasty;
• Thrombolytic therapy
• Intra-aortic balloon pump
• Ventricular assist device
• Temporary pacemaker insertion
• External pacemaker application
• Cardioversion
• ICP monitoring
• CRRT
• TEE
• Bronchoscopy
• Continuous EEG monitoring
• Management of patient with central lines
• Management of patients with mechanical ventilators
• Management of medication administration
• Management of patient safety
• Management of the bariatric patient
• Management of patient requiring homodynamic monitoring
• Post resuscitation care

Special Equipment: E.Invasive Procedures/Treatment
• 1.Intra-aortic balloon pump
• 2. Balloon tamponade of varices
• 3. Pericardial catheters
• 4. Induced hypothermia
• 5. Endotracheal Tube Intubation
• 6. External pacemaker application
• 7. Temporary pacemaker insertion and/or management
• 8. Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
• 9. Ventricular Assist device
• 10. Targeted Temperature Management
• 11. Continuous EEG monitoring
• 12. Ventriculostomy Drains
• 14. Pericardial Drains
• 15. Venous/Arterial Sheath management

***** ALL travelers are expected to float between all facilities within a given state. travelers' refusal to float may result in termination of assignment and/or forfeiture of guaranteed hours.*****