Travel Nurse (RN) - Intensive Care Unit

Required Skills/Experience:
Thermaguard/Zoll cooling experience with targeted temperature management (TTM) is required.
Special Requests:
Each employment history entry must include all the following: detailed duties, hospital size, unit size, trauma level (if applicable), patient ratio, teaching facility.
Any employment gaps greater than 30 days must be explained.
The facility may make one off exceptions if previously employed at the facility, but exceptions must be approved by St. Luke's Health System.
At least one reference must be from the same unit/specialty as the job you're applying to.
Block scheduling will be considered if it works with unit needs.
Unit Details:
The unit combines ICU and PCU care.
The PCU nurse-to-patient ratio is 1:3.
Travelers do not get specialty patients, including ventilated, post-PCI cardiac, Impella, IABP, stroke with TNK, targeted temperature management (TTM) with Zoll cooling/Thermaguard, vascular, trauma, EtOH, sepsis, OD, some abdominal trauma and surgical, or CRRT cases; CV surgical patients are not included.
RNs titrate standard ICU, vasoactive, and sedative drips; PCU care includes mild titrations, with some pressors titrated within written parameters.
A tele tech monitors the unit and sister sites, and RNs are expected to be comfortable reading and interpreting telemetry.
Respiratory support includes ventilators, CPAP, BiPAP, respiratory treatments, specimen collection, and bronchoscopies.
An intensivist is available 7 days a week, mostly during the day; eICU support is available at night via a camera and screen in the room for nighttime calls and orders. A hospitalist is in-house 24/7, and respiratory therapy is in the ICU 24/7.
Shift & Scheduling:
Travelers are expected to fill scheduling gaps and remain flexible.
Usually every other weekend, but this could be less often depending on need.
Holiday coverage is required as needed.
No call.
Extra shifts may be available.
Floating Requirements:
The traveler is first to float between ICU and PCU patients within the unit.

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