Travel Nurse RN - Float ICU - Intensive Care Unit - $2,228 per week

Core Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN Float ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty : ICU - Intensive Care Unit
• Discipline : RN
• Start Date : 10 / 21 / 2024
• Duration : 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift : 12 hours
• Employment Type : Travel

Weekly Gross Pay $

2228.08

General job duties. Types of procedures required.

Avea vents, Philips monitors, Hospira pums, EPIC based EMR, Artic Sun, Datascope IABP.

They need to know EKG, hemodynamic and medication calculations, as they will test them out on these during orientation their first week.

Required skills and minimum years of experience.

ACLS, hemodynamic monitoring, vasoactive medication titration, management of ventilated patients, recovery for procedures / surgical, conscious sedation.

Prior critical care experience required. Bipap, Cpap, Heated High Flow, Oxygen titration, Moderate Sedation, Telemetry, Medical-Surgical patient care.

Specific licensures and certifications / registrations required. (ARRT, CRT, BLS, ACLS, etc)

ACLS and BLS - both AHA . SD or compact state RN license.

Shift or schedule requirements.

Rotating days / nights with 12 hour shifts, every other weekend and holiday, options for straight weekend if prefer.

The employee will not work alone, however is required to be on call if census dictates, weekends are required.

Floating to over units / departments. (If so, to which units / departments?)

Will need to float between Critical Care (CC2, CC3, 2800), 3000 Cardiology / 3800 Cardiac Critical Care, Pulmonary / Pulmonary Acute (IMC / Step Down), and 5000 Ortho / Neuro / Neuro Acute (IMC / Step Down).

Bed size / number of rooms for this unit / dept.

Together, the 30 bed medical surgical unit and 8 bed progressive care unit equips RNs with fundamental critical care experience in mechanical ventilation and provides a solid nursing foundation focusing on safe patient outcomes.

With an average length of stay of 4 days on the Wings and 9 days in Acute, patient diagnosis range from pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, COVID-19 and pulmonary embolism to complex cases requiring nursing skills for oxygen therapy, intravenous medications, moderate sedation monitoring during bronchoscopies, chest tubes, tracheostomies, postoperative care, non-invasive ventilation, mechanical ventilation, in addition to cardiac monitoring.

The diverse patient population and supportive family culture of the Pulmonary Unit provides a great atmosphere and exceptional nursing skills.

39 icu beds in three locations (CC2 - 12 beds, CC3 - 15 beds, CCW - 12 beds)

Nurse to patient ratio of this unit. (nursing only)

ICU : 1 : 2 primarily with some 1 : 1 with higher acuity and 1 : 3 when holding overflow or patient transfer status. 1 : 3 in Pulmonary Acute for IMC RNs, other units : 1 : 4 / 5 days shifts 1 : 5 / 6 night shifts

Tell us about the unit / department specific training and orientation program.

General nursing orientation via CLI, computer based training and test outs for competency (see above), EMR training, department specific training based on assessment of need and preceptor shifts

Name of Position Requirements

Does your candidate require any time off during initial assignment? If yes, list in comments section.

Is this candidate a 1099 employee?

Min 2 years recent MS / Tele / ICU experience

Willing and able to float between Critical Care and MS / Tele units as needed

Active ACLS - Must be AHA - required

Active BLS - must be AHA - required

Active SD or compact state RN license, list state in comments

Experience with Bipap and Cpap

Experience with Oxygen titration

Experience with Moderate Sedation

Experience with hemodynamic monitoring, vasoactive medication titration, and management of ventilated patients?

Comments

Mostly ICU, but may float to sister units NACU / Pulm Acute and Med Surg Cardiology 3800 ratio 1 : 3 Rotating days / nights with 12 hour shifts, every other weekend and holiday.

would work either Thanksgiving & New Years or Christmas as the holiday rotation. ACLS and BLS required - both AHA . SD or compact state RN license required.

2 years recent critical care experience required. Epic experience preferred. Willing to take local candidates- bill rate will be $8 less

Core Staffing Job ID #146961. Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined.

Posted job title : RN- Critical Care Unit / Med Surg Float- Sioux Falls