Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit
Merced, California
Mercy Medical Center Merced

Weekend Requirement: 2 weekends per 4 weeks

Holidays: Every other major

Shifts: 7a, 7p

# beds: 20

Ratios: 1 to 2

Charge Nurse: Each shift--do not take patients; they serve as a resource to entire house

Nurse Aides: No

Scrub Color: Navy

Tele: GE-nurses must read and interpret own strips

Vents: RT in house ang manages

Floating: Yes, to tele, med surg and will take 4 or 5 patients; travelers are first to float

Floor specific orientation: 2 shifts in ICU and 1 unit out on the floor

Common diagnosis / Types of patients: Sepsis, proficient in managing DKA hyperglycemia, PN, COPD, PCI cardiac services (not STEMI center yet), CVA, no neuro, ICU patients will recover from surgery in the ICU, versed, Propofol, norepinephrine, GI bleeds

Additional Notes: Must be comfortable w/ ABCDE bundle, vents

*These staff may be deployed to ED to care for boarded ICU patients or will work in the ICU

PLEASE MAKE SURE TRAVELER IS READY TO ACCEPT IF OFFERED, WE HAVE HAD A HIGH VOLUME OF BACKOUTS & DECLINED OFFERS - THANK YOU!

PLEASE NOTE: ICU FLOATS TO MS TELE AND TELE FLOORS

Additional Questions: You will be floating out to the floors, are you comfortable with this? You will take a full patient load