Travel Nurse (RN) - Intensive Care Unit

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.

Additional Details:

RNs only - Clinicians who obtained RN degree outside of the U.S. and do not hold MO/IL/Compact license require extended licensing and compliance timeframe. No medical marijuana cards accepted. You must be able to complete labs within 48 hours of signing.

Required Skills/Experience: needs 2 years recent ICU exp Strong cardiac knowledge required. Medical Intensive Care Unit and Surgical Intensive Care Unit experience required. Interpretation of dysrhythmias; management of dysrhythmias; management of patient with multisystem organ dysfunction/failure; obtain 12 lead EKG/ECG; Central Venous Pressure Monitoring (CVP); Pulmonary Artery Line/Swan Ganz monitoring; chronic/acute renal failure; arterial line management; blood product administration; central line care/management; PICC line management; starting and maintaining IVs; continuous IV sedation; emergency medications; titrate cardiac drips; titrate vasoactive drips; CVA/acute stroke management; assist with management of BiPAP; care of ventilated patient; interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs); respiratory failure; suctioning (ETT, NT); ventilator management; infection prevention; isolation precautions/use of PPE; phlebotomy; surgical wounds with drains/Wound Vac.

Preferred Skills/Experience: Previous Charge Experience: Preferred

Special Requests: No local candidates accepted; home address must be at least 75 miles from the facility.

Unit Details: Adult and geriatric patient population. Multi-disciplinary ICU that does see fresh hearts. Travel RNs will not take fresh cases but will be scheduled in the CTICU for coverage. Patient population includes Resp Failure/ARDS, acute chest pain/cardiac/arrhythmias, stroke, cardiac arrest, DKA, multi-organ failure, and sepsis. Pre and post op cardiac, thoracic, abdominal surgeries; medicine and neuro-medicine overflow; pre-and post-transplant; end of life/organ donation. Uses IV pumps/titration, CRRT/dialysis, Ventilator/BIPAP, hemodynamic/invasive monitoring, and Defibrillator/crash cart. Charge RN assignments as needed per unit.

Shift & Scheduling: Flexible contract hours: 36 or 48 per week. BJC policy: Every other weekend required. No call. No more than 7 days of RTO. Holiday shifts as needed per unit.

Floating Requirements: Will float within service line to ICU units; may float down to MS as needed.

Details:

• AUTO OFFER - NO INTERVIEW: This is an auto-offer position. You will likely not interview with the facility prior to receiving an offer. However, an interview can be arranged upon request. All time off requests must be submitted at application. Scheduling requests must be worked out with the manager directly upon starting the assignment. Any offers for this job will require a clear "Yes" or "No" response from the nurse within 24hrs or the offer must be declined.