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Required Skills/Experience:
Strong ICU experience is required.
Required skills include cardiac rhythm interpretation, ventilator/tracheostomy and BiPAP management, invasive line management, ostomy, 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.
Make every attempt to do block scheduling, especially for night shift; this unit does not guarantee block scheduling.
Unit Details:
The unit is high-acuity and adaptable.
The unit is the designated COVID unit for MultiCare Health System and currently has a mix of COVID ICU and medical ICU patients.
All unit rooms can be negative airflow.
Expected patient types include respiratory failure, GI bleeds, DKA, sepsis, complicated postoperative patients, CVAs, post-arrest patients, ETOH, and IVDA.
Higher-level therapies listed include Rotoprone, manual prone, hypothermia protocol, CRRT, TPA, and flap surgeries; these patients will not be taken.
Patients not expected include Level 6 patients requiring hypothermia treatment, ECMO, CRRT, Arctic Sun, or Rotoprone; balloon pumps go to CVICU.
Patients with craniotomies, major traumas, or major cardiothoracic cases are not expected.
A split assignment may include both COVID and non-COVID patients.
PCU patient ratios are 1:3 or 1:4 based on acuity.
Centralized telemetry monitoring is used.
Equipment includes Alaris IV pumps, Pyxis medication dispensing, Philips monitors, and Hill-Rom beds.
Shift & Scheduling:
Flexible contract hours: 48 per week; ask if interested.
Shift times are 0700-1930 and 1900-0730.
Weekends will vary depending on the needs of the unit.
Schedules are provided 3 weeks at a time, approximately 10 days before the schedule begins.
Can work 6 in a row.
Holiday schedule is based on unit needs.
Floating Requirements:
Will float regularly and care for PCU and lower-acuity patients.
Float locations include ED Holding, 2 River Observation, PCU, CCU, and CVICU.
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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