Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit - $2,530 per week

Integrated Healthcare Services is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Lexington, Kentucky.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: ICU - Intensive Care Unit
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, nights
• Employment Type: Travel

Job Title: RN-Intensive Care Unit

Location: Lexington, KY

Contract Length: 13 Weeks

Job Summary:
The RN implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness. Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research as well as hospital and department policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines. Clinical decision-making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process, critical thinking, and creativity. Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines. Responsibilities include coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care activities on the unit through nursing rounds, assessments, treatments, facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities, patient and family-centered education, care coordination, and individualized treatment planning.

Required Qualifications:
- No prior experience required.
- Accepts responsibility for words, actions, attitude, and results while meeting deadlines and performance expectations.
- Practices effective, clear, and respectful communication (both verbal and written) and demonstrates attentiveness through active listening and engaged body language.
- Collaborates, respects, and cooperates with all co-workers, valuing differences and addressing concerns directly.
- Warmly, personally, and professionally greets all internal and external customers, promoting a high level of satisfaction.
- Shows an understanding and knowledge of computer systems and applications and/or ability to be trained.
- Ability to communicate/collaborate with other care team members.
- Ability to assess age-specific patient safety issues and implement appropriate safety devices for all patients.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous nursing experience.
- Must have CVICU experience and experience with recovering open heart positions.
- EPIC experience required.

Required Education:
- ADN or ASN.

Preferred Education:
- BSN.

Required Certifications & Licensure:
- Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the applicable state.
- BLS, ACLS.

Integrated Healthcare Services Job ID #37698178. Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36.0 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined. Posted job title: RN-Intensive Care Unit