IMC/ICU Registered Nurse (RN)

An LTAC (Long-Term Acute Care) Registered Nurse with ICU or Intermediate Care (IMC) experience provides specialized, continuous critical care to medically complex, high-acuity patients who require extended hospitalization. This role leverages intensive care clinical judgment to manage ventilator-dependent patients, complex wound management, multi-organ failure, and multi-system medical stability outside of the traditional short-stay ICU setting.

• Demonstrates and understands the importance of and respect for the rights, dignity and individuality of each patient in all interactions.
• Assesses patient’s condition, learning needs and family dynamics based on systematic data collection utilizing assessment skills and tools appropriate to the respective practice area.
• Develops a comprehensive plan of care and discharge plan based on the nursing assessment and integration of the medical plan utilizing the patient's family and other health care team members.
• Makes patient rounds to assess physical and emotional status and to initiate any nursing interventions.
• Assists with activities of daily living, vital signs, toileting and responds to call lights.
• Documents delivery of health care and nursing process in accordance with specific unit standards and hospital nursing policy.
• Implements patient care and prioritizes tasks/responsibilities within allotted time, and collaborates with health team members, as necessary.
• Responds to patient and family concerns; ensures that each concern is documented and a resolution is initiated.
• Obtains report from Nurse being relieved from duty and provides report to Nurse coming on duty; keeps the clinical team and others, as appropriate, informed about the status of patients and related matters; performs or supervises complete, timely and accurate documentation of patient care.
• Coordinates and delegates the delivery of care provided by selected members of the health care team.
• Evaluates outcomes of patient care planning and teaching and collaborates with other health care team members to revise the plan according to the changing needs of the patient.