Job Title: Registered Nurse
Profession: RN
Specialty: Intensive Care Unit
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: 12-hour Day Shift
Hours per Shift: 12
Experience: 2 years of ICU Acute Care experience required
License: Registered Nurse license required
Certifications: BLS, ACLS, NIHSS, CPI (Crisis Prevention Institute's NCI with Advanced Physical Skills Training course)
Must-Have: BSN highly desired; Cerner experience required
Description:
The ICU is a multidisciplinary unit that provides care for neurological, neuro-surgical, medical, surgical, pulmonary, cardiology, cardiothoracic, and trauma patients.
Various types of technology are used to care for and treat critical care patients.
This technology includes ventilators, ventriculostomies, cardiac monitors, pulmonary artery catheters, arterial lines, central lines, PICC lines, IABP, ECMO/tandem heart, Impella, BIS monitors, continuous pulse oximetry, continuous renal replacement therapy, gastric tubes, and intravenous infusion pumps.
The role fulfills the needs of patients, families, and the community by performing a variety of patient care functions and tasks in accordance with licensure, certification, training, and regulatory requirements.