Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit - $2,629 per week

Company: Mercy Medical Center
Location: Merced
Posted on: October 30, 2024

Job Description:

• Certification Details
• Certs: BLS, ACLS, prefer CCRN, basic critical care course preferred, NIHSS
  • 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
      • START DATE: 2/5 or 2/26, NO MARCH
      • Weekend Requirement: 2 weekends per 4 weeks
      • Holidays: Every other major
      • Shifts: 7a, 7p
        • Unit Specific Information
        • Unit: ICU
        • # beds: 20
        • Ratios: 1 to 2
        • 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 ang manages
        • Floating: Yes, to tele, med surg and will take 4 or 5 patients; travelers are first to float
        • 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
          • If Clinical Recommends, prescreen notes and resume are sent to hospital for approval to offer, no 2nd interview
          • *These staff may be deployed to ED to care for boarded ICU patients or will work in the ICU
          • PLEASE MAKE SURE TRAVELER IS READY TO ACCEPT IF OFFERED, WE HAVE HAD A HIGH VOLUME OF BACKOUTS & DECLINED OFFERS - THANK YOU!
          • PLEASE NOTE: ICU FLOATS TO MS TELE AND TELE FLOORS
          • Additional Questions: You will be floating out to the floors, are you comfortable with this? You will take a full patient load

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