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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:
Required Skills/Experience:
- Critical care and experience with PA catheters required
- Will take 1.5 years experience if from a Level 1 trauma center, large hospital
- Adults and geriatrics with cardiac/vascular diagnoses and treatments such as STEMI/NSTEMI, cardiogenic shock, unstable dysrhythmias, medical/interventional management, advanced heart failure including short- and long-term mechanical circulatory support and transplant, TTM post-cardiac arrest, and CRRT
- Travelers will not be assigned CICU-specific devices such as IABP, Impella, or CRRT, but are expected to care for patients with PA catheters
-Required Skills: Plastics, Abdominoplasty, Breast augmentation, IV therapy/Phlebotomy, Accessing/Managing Ports, Blood Product Administration, Phlebotomy, PICC line care and management, Starting and maintaining IVs, Respiratory, Airway assessment, Care of Ventilated Patient, Chest tube management, End-Tidal CO2 monitoring, Fresh tracheostomy, Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs), Intubation, Work Settings, Ambulatory/Outpatient, Inpatient, Phase I PACU, Phase II Recovery, Medications, Antiarrhythmics, Anticoagulation therapy, Antihypertensives, Emergency Medications, IV vasopressors, Narcotics/Opioid Analgesics, Procedural Sedation Administration/Monitoring, Reversal agents, Cardiac Monitoring, Dysrhythmia recognition/management, Genitourinary/Renal, AV fistula/shunt, TURP, Gynecology, Bilateral tubal ligation, Hysterectomy, Mastectomy, Ophthalmology, Cataract extraction/implant, Eye trauma, Gastrointestinal, Cholecystectomy, Colon surgery, Orthopedics, Circulation Checks, Open reduction and internal fixation, Total joint replacement, Types of Anesthesia, Conscious Sedation, General, Local, Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC), Nerve Blocks, Post-epidural management, Spinal, Pre/Post Op Care of the Patient, Discharge Instructions, Follow up phone calls, Medication reconciliation, Obtain 12 lead EKG/ECG, Obtain Operative/Procedural Consent, Pre-op Assessment, Pre-op Education, Pre-Op Medications, Pre/Post Endoscopy procedures, Pre/Post Operative procedures, Review History and Physical, Straight urinary catheterization female, Straight urinary catheterization male, Wound Vacs, Surgery Cases, Endo/Laparoscopic, General, Gyn, Neuro/Spine, Ophthalmology, Ortho/Spine, Ortho/Total joints, Plastics, Podiatry, Urology, Neurological, Hypothermia protocol, Spine surgery, Stroke Scale, Endocrine, Insulin protocols, Professional Topics and Skills, Interpretation and communication of lab values, Isolation Precautions/PPE, Malignant Hyperthermia Protocol, Pain assessment & management, PCA pump management, RASS (Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale), Pediatrics, Management of pediatric patients
Preferred Skills/Experience: -Preferred Skills: Pre-Post, Arterial line management, Vascular (Surgery Cases)
Unit/Facility Details: Parking Cost: $125/month
Shift & Scheduling:
- No call
Floating Requirements:
- Float to ICU and PCU
Special Requests:
- You must be able to complete labs within 48 hours of signing.
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.
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