Travel Nurse (RN) - Intensive Care Unit

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Preferred Skills/Experience:
Experience with mechanical ventilation, CPAP/BiPAP management, tracheostomy care, procedure sedation, and chest tube setup and management preferred.
Experience with telemetry monitoring and interpretation, 12-lead ECG acquisition, blood and blood product administration, cardioversion/defibrillation, cooling and warming therapies, central venous pressure (CVP) monitoring, and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) preferred.
Experience with PICC lines, central lines, triple-lumen catheters, feeding tubes, PCA pumps, and wound vac systems preferred.
Experience with medical ICU patients, surgical ICU patients, and neuro ICU patient populations preferred.
Experience with ventilators, telemetry monitoring, and vasoactive drips preferred.

Unit Details:
The ICU cares for adult and geriatric patients with complex medical and surgical conditions.
Nurse-to-patient ratios are 1:2 and 1:3 based on acuity.
Common patient conditions include sepsis, acute kidney injury (AKI), diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), respiratory distress, ventilator-dependent patients, patients requiring tracheostomy care, and hemodynamically unstable patients requiring vasoactive drips.
Unit procedures and equipment include mechanical ventilation, CPAP/BiPAP, tracheostomy care, procedure sedation, chest tube setup and management, telemetry monitoring and interpretation, 12-lead ECG acquisition, blood and blood product administration, cardioversion/defibrillation, cooling and warming therapies, central venous pressure (CVP) monitoring, continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), PICC lines, central lines, triple-lumen catheters, feeding tubes, PCA pumps, and wound vac systems.
Common titrated medications include amiodarone, antiarrhythmics, antiseizure medications, atropine, beta blockers, Cardizem, dobutamine, dopamine, epinephrine, heparin, insulin, Levophed, magnesium sulfate, milrinone, Neosynephrine, nicardipine, nitroglycerin, nitroprusside, norepinephrine, propofol, and vasopressin.
Additional common drips and medications include antipsychotics, hydralazine, ketamine, Lasix, and tPA.
Additional exposure includes general surgery patients, medical psychiatric patients, and inpatient hemodialysis.
Fresenius dialysis equipment is used.

Shift & Scheduling:
No call requirement.

Floating Requirements:
Float support to Medical-Surgical units is provided as needed.

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