Certification Details
Required Certifications : BLS, ACLS, NIHSS.
Job Details
Small traveler friendly facility in Nebraska looking for a strong ICU RN to start ASAP - BLS ACLS needed.
Job Requirements
- Required Certifications : BLS, ACLS, NIHSS.
- Experience : 1 year experience as long as they have experience with vents.
- Need to have experience with : vents, art lines, PICC lines, ports, chest tubes, drains, wounds, ostomies, OG, NG, PPE, identify arrhythmias, Cardioversions, TEEs, post heart cath patients, defibrillator, pain management.
- Are RNs required to titrate drips? : Yes
- Common titratable & / or set rate drips : Insulin, levo, cardizem, dopamine, dobutamine, TPA, heparin, Cardizem, amio, lasix, and sedation drips.
Schedule Information
- Shifts & Scheduling : 12 hours 7-7. No self scheduling- will work with travelers on block scheduling (accommodate as much as possible).
- Weekend Requirements : Generally every 3rd weekend but may be more based on need- they just ask for flexibility.
- Holiday Requirements : Every 3rd holiday- please expect to work one of the winter holidays.
Unit Specific Information
- Beds : 10 - private beds ICU and PCU are on the same floor.
- RT in ICU 24 / 7 : No, but in house 24 / 7.
Additional Details
- ACLS, BLS, NIHSS;START DATE : 11 / 4
- Department : ICU
- 50 mile radius for all travelers *
- Nurse Patient Ratios : 1 : 2 sometimes 1 : 3 if low acuity.
- Charge Nurse / House Supervisor? : Charge nurse will take patients House supervisor available in house.
- Are there nurse aids on this unit / Ratios : Yes- try to have staff 2 on the floor for 16 patients.
- Hospitalist or Intensivist in house : Hospitalist in house 24 / 7. Intensivist available during day.
- RT Equipment : Vents, CPAP, BiPAP.
- Are there Tele / Monitor Techs on this unit? : Tele techs on the unit- RNs are required to read their own strips. Philips tele monitors.
- Floating Requirements : Will float to PCU and occasionally MedSurg. Will take a full patient assignment when floating MedSurg 1 : 5-6.
- Scrub Color / Dress Code : Any solid color scrubs- no designs. Natural color hair.
21 hours ago