Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit
Jeffersonville, Indiana
Clark Memorial Hospital

Registered Nurse State License

ACLS

NIH Certification

Weekend: every other

Work Experience (Basic): 2 years of acute care RN experience

Education (Required): Diploma or Associate

Certification (Required): Registered Nurse

Does RN need to know how to read tele strips? Yes

Top diagnosis/procedures: Respiratory/ Renal

Common equipment used: Vent, CRRT NxStage, Echo, Aritic Sun, EV1000, PCA pumps

Does RN need to be able to titrate medication? Yes

Common medications given: Propofol, Precedex, Fentanyl, Cardizem, Digoxin, Dobutamine, Dopamine, Amiodarone, Norephinephrine, Vasopressin, Epinephrine, Phenylephrine

We are a very welcoming unit to all new travelers and senior nurses love to precept, new grads in our resident program.

- Clinical Resource Nurse per shift- for both units – without patients They oversee admission/discharge/respond to Code 4/Nurse blue house wide/hold daily brief & debrief/assign staffing for oncoming shift.

Patient Population: Medical ICU - Heavy respiratory patients/ Renal patients/Cardiac patient

Airway/Bipap/Airvo/Vent management

Vaso/cardiac/sedation drips-titration per MAR

EKG interpretation

Familiar with and care of Arterial line/Central line/Femoral lines

We do TTM with the Artic Sun/ CRRT with Next Stage/ IABP/ ECHO for PE

IV insertion

Blood draws

A-line management

CVP

IABP Sheath removal

Cardioversion/defibrillation

Epicardial pacer management

Procedural sedation

CPAP/BiPAP

Ventilators

Trach Care

Rapid Infuser

Epidural/PCA pump

Feeding tubes

Continuous bladder irrigation