Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit - $2,142 per week - Greensboro North Carolina

Company: Kindred Hospital - Greensboro
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
Posted On: 09/21/2024

Certification Details
• Must have ACLS & BLS certifications (Must be through the American Heart Association)
  Job Details
  • Critical care registered nurses are adept at providing care in settings where patients have suffered a heart attack, stroke, shock, severe trauma, respiratory distress or other severe medical issues.
  • Assessing a patient's condition and planning and implementing patient care plans
  • Treating wounds and providing advanced life support
  • Assisting physicians in performing procedures
  • Observing and recording patient vital signs
  • Ensuring that ventilators, monitors and other types of medical equipment function properly/adjusting ventilator/IABP
  • Administering intravenous fluids and medications
  • Suctioning
  • Collaborating with fellow members of the critical care team
  • Responding to life-saving situations, using nursing standards and protocols for treatment
  • Acting as patient advocate
  • Providing education and support to patient families
  • Critical care nurses may also care for pre- and post-operative patients.
  • Some serve as case managers and policy makers, while others perform administrative duties.
    Job Requirements
    • Must have recent LTACH, trach & vent experience
    • Must have ACLS & BLS certifications (Must be through the American Heart Association); RQI certifications will not be accepted
    • Must have NC or multistate compact RN license
    • May have to float to MS/Tele unit depending on facility census, patient ratios are 1:6 More...

          

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