Travel Nurse (RN) - Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit

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Please expect someone with a 501 (Arkansas) area code or from the facility to reach out to interview you for this position!

Required Skills/Experience:
1 full year of strong ICU experience.
Required skills include cardiac rhythm interpretation, ventilator/tracheostomy and BiPAP management, invasive line management, ostomy care, general drains, chest tubes, lumbar drains, and IV medication titration.
If you have a multistate license, you will be required to complete a 1-time 6-hour suicide prevention training according to WA state regulations.

Preferred Skills/Experience:
2 years of ICU experience preferred.

Special Requests:
Any RTO or special requests not included on your application will NOT be considered.
You can only have 1 active application for the same position (same unit & shift at the same facility). Example: if you apply for day shift, you can also apply for night shift on the same unit and facility, but you cannot apply for another day shift position on the same unit & facility.
Block scheduling will be attempted, especially for night shift, but is not guaranteed.

Unit Details:
The unit is a high-acuity, adaptable care environment.
This is the designated COVID unit for MultiCare Health System.
The unit includes a mix of COVID ICU and medical ICU patients.
All rooms can be negative airflow.
Patient population includes respiratory failure, GI bleeds, DKA, sepsis, complicated postoperative patients, CVAs, post-arrest patients, ETOH, and IVDA.
Patients requiring Rotoprone, manual proning, hypothermia protocol, CRRT, TPA, or flap surgeries are not taken; Level 6 patients requiring hypothermia treatment, ECMO, CRRT, Arctic Sun, or Rotoprone are not expected.
The unit does not take patients requiring craniotomies, major trauma, or major cardiothoracic procedures.
Balloon pumps go to CVICU.
May receive a split assignment with some COVID and some non-COVID patients.
Patient ratios are 1:1 or 1:2 in ICU and 1:3 or 1:4 in PCU, based on acuity.
Equipment and monitoring include Alaris IV pumps, Pyxis medication-dispensing system, Philips monitors, Hill-Rom beds, and centralized telemetry monitoring.

Shift & Scheduling:
Flexible contract hours: 48 per week may be available; ask if interested.
Shift times are 0700-1930 and 1900-0730.
May work 6 consecutive shifts.
Weekend scheduling varies based on unit needs.
Schedules are provided 3 weeks at a time, approximately 10 days before the schedule begins.
Holiday scheduling is based on unit needs.

Floating Requirements:
Will float regularly to ED Holding, 2 River Observation, PCU, CCU, and CVICU, and will care for PCU and lower-acuity patients.

Pre-employment modules may be required for this role. Please upload any certifications or health documents you have to your profile to expedite your on-boarding process.

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