Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit
Norway, Maine
Stephens Memorial Hospital

Certifications Preferred: PALS

Employment Type: Travel

Start date of 11/18/24 for 12 weeks

Facility Name: Stephens Memorial Hospital

Total # of Facility Beds: 25

Unit Name: Special Care Unit (SCU)

Unit Specialty: Intermediate Care/Critical Care

Total # of Unit Beds/Suites/Deliveries: 4 beds

Teaching Facility: Yes

Teaching Hospital Experience Required: No

Trauma Level: Community Hospital Emergency Department

Prior Travel Experience Required: No

Minimum # Years Clinical Experience Required: 2 years

Minimum # Years Clinical Experience in Specialty Required: one year

Nurse Patient Ratio by shift: two patients per nurse in SCU

Ancillary Assistance: Yes

Nurse Staff per shift: two nurses

Unit clerk/Secretary: Yes

Other Staff per shift: one or two nurses depending on census and patient acuity

Advanced Practice on the unit: no

# Days of Orientation: 2 or 3 days

Specialty Testing for Unit/Facility: Fit testing/flu/Covid vaccines

Patient Care Modality: team and primary nursing

Certifications Preferred: PALS

Minimum # Years Clinical Experience Required: 2 years

Minimum # Years Clinical Experience in Specialty Required: one year

Rotation Schedule: no rotation to days

Self-Scheduling: no

Weekend Requirements: every other

Call Requirements: none

Holiday Requirements: every other

Unit Specialty: Intermediate Care/Critical Care

Total # of Unit Beds/Suites/Deliveries: 4 beds

Nurse Patient Ratio by shift: two patients per nurse in SCU

Documentation System: Epic

Medication System: Epic and Pyxis

Floating Required: No

To what units/facilities: Med-Surg most likely

Describe the rotation: when census on SCU is low; nurse to patient ratio would be higher than in SCU

Charge required: No

Patient Population (Diagnoses): Intermediate/Critical Care patients and Med-Surg overflow patients; respiratory, cardiac, sepsis, Covid, Diabetic patients most common

Age Range: adult/geriatric and occasionally pediatric patients

Special Equipment: IV drips, IV pumps, ventilators, cardiac monitors, blood transfusions

Respiratory available 24/7 for support: No

Anesthesia available 24/7 for support: On call

Who manages ventilators: Respiratory Therapy

Unit Specific Procedures and Protocols: All of the above except discontinuing sheaths