Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit - $2,779 per week

Company: Mercy Medical Center
Location: Merced
Posted on: November 6, 2024

Job Description:

• Certification Details
• ACLS, BLS, NIHSS required.
• Prefer CCRN, basic critical care course preferred.
  • Job Details
  • A hospital in California is looking for an experienced ICU nurse for a travel contract.
    • Job Requirements
    • The right candidate will have 2 full years of experience.
    • Hold an active BLS, ACLS, NIH, and CA License.
      • Schedule Information
      • Weekend Requirement: 2 weekends per 4 weeks.
      • Holidays: Every other major.
      • Shifts: 7a, 7p.
        • Unit Specific Information
        • Unit: ICU
        • - # beds: 20
        • - Certs: BLS, ACLS, prefer CCRN, basic critical care course preferred, NIHSS
        • - Ratios: 1 to 2
        • - EMR: Cerner
        • - Charge Nurse: Each shift--do not take patients; they serve as a resource to entire house
        • - Nurse Aides: No
        • - Scrub Color: Navy
        • - Tele: GE-nurses must read and interpret own strips
        • - Vents: RT in house and manages
        • - Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: Internal medicine 24/7; pulmonologist act as intensivists but are not 24/7
        • - IV Team: Must have strong IV skills
        • - RT 24/7: Yes
        • - Pharmacy 24/7: Yes
        • - Floor specific orientation: 2 shifts in ICU and 1 unit out on the floor
        • - Common diagnosis / Types of patients: Sepsis, proficient in managing DKA hyperglycemia, PN, COPD, PCI cardiac services (not STEMI center yet), CVA, no neuro, ICU patients will recover from surgery in the ICU, versed, Propofol, norepinephrine, GI bleeds
        • - Additional Notes: Must be comfortable w/ ABCDE bundle, vents.
          • Additional Details
          • ICU floats to MS TELE and TELE floors.
          • PLEASE MAKE SURE TRAVELER IS READY TO ACCEPT IF OFFERED, WE HAVE HAD A HIGH VOLUME OF BACKOUTS & DECLINED OFFERS - THANK YOU!
          • Floating: Yes, to TELE, med surg and will take 4 or 5 patients; travelers are first to float.
          • Additional Questions: You will be floating out to the floors, are you comfortable with this? You will take a full patient load; 12-hour days.

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