Job Overview
Description:
The Registered Nurse-Intensive Care Unit is responsible for delivery of patient care through the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
The successful candidate will be able to:
• Coordinate all nursing care for patients based on established clinical nursing practice standards
• Collaborating with other professional disciplines to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and the achievement of desired patient outcomes
• Contributing to the provision of quality nursing care through performance improvement techniques that demonstrate positive outcomes in patient care
• Collect patient’s health data
• Analyze assessment data in determining patient problems
• Identify expected outcomes individualized to the patient
• Develop a comprehensive plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes
• Implement interventions identified in the plan of care
• Evaluate patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes
• Assist with the plan of care, evaluate, modify and coordinate care, and communicate well with other disciplines
• Delegate task to unlicensed personnel in compliance with the Board of Nursing
• Conduct discharge planning, assisting the patient/significant others to obtain knowledge about illness, injury prevention, and teaching
• Maintain confidentiality with all information
• Perform any and all other duties as assigned
Travel Experience Required:
Yes
Certfications:
Certs marked with * are preferred
ACLS, BLS, NIHSS
Skills:
Skills marked with * are preferred
IV therapy
Arterial line management
Blood Product Administration*
Central line care/management
PICC line management*
Starting IVs*
Respiratory/Thoracic
Assist with Chest Tube Insertion/Removal*
Assist with management of BiPAP*
Assist with management of CPAP*
Care of Ventilated Patient
High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)*
Interpretation of ABGs*
Suctioning (ETT, NT)*
Ventilator Management*
Genitourinary/Renal
Chronic/Acute Renal failure*
CVVHD/CRRT*
Medications
Continuous IV sedation*
Procedural Sedation Administration*
Titrate Cardiac drips
Titrate Vasoactive drips*
Neurological
CVA/Acute Stroke management*
External ventricular drains (EVD)*
Hypothermia protocol/Arctic Sun*
ICP monitoring*
Post Neurosurgery management*
Gastrointestinal
GI surgery*
Professional Topics and Skills
Infection Prevention*
Isolation Precautions/ Use of PPE
Phlebotomy*
Surgical Wounds with drains/Wound Vac*
Cardiac Monitoring and Emergency response
Interpretation of dysrhythmias
Management of dysrhythmias
Multi-system organ failure
Endocrine/Metabolic
IV insulin protocols*
Work Settings
Medical Intensive Care Unit
Neuro Intensive Care Unit*
Surgical Intensive Care Unit*
Unit requires previous travel experience
2 years minimum experience required
ACLS, BLS, NIHSS required
Scrub Color: Navy
