Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit - $2,655 per week

Company: Boone Health
Location: Columbia
Posted on: January 18, 2025

Job Description:

• Certification Details
• BLS
• ACLS
  • Job Details
  • All candidates will need to complete a virtual interview for this role, and offers will be made based on that interview.
  • Please ensure that all candidates have a full skills checklist with their detailed resume combined on one document.
  • We have a multidisciplinary unit. Critical care experience is a must.
  • If the nurse has expertise in a particular discipline we appreciate knowing that and will utilize them with those patients as a rule, but will possibly get exposure to patients in the other disciplines as well.
  • May float to Stepdown
  • Must be float to Med Surg units as needed.
  • Will be required to take up to 4-5 patients when floated.
  • Unit: 2S ICU
  • Number of Beds: 32
  • Nurse Patient Ratio: typically 1:2, can be 1:1 or 1:3 as well (Specific ratio is not guaranteed)
  • Patient Age Groups: Adults, Geriatric
  • Top 10 Diagnosis/Procedures: Respiratory distress/failure, cardiac arrest, DKA, sepsis, ARF, strokes (hemorrhagic and embolic), OHS, TAVR's, vascular surgeries, thoracotomies, carotids.
  • Special procedure done on the unit: Many procedures are done at the bedside. Bronchs, trachs, central line insertions, intubations, arterial line and swan ganz line placement, chest tube insertions.
  • Common Equipment: Alaris pumps, Prisma flex, Arctic Sun, IABP, Impella, SCD's, Phillips Monitors, Belmont rapid infusor, ceiling lifts, bard and CADD pumps, bladder scanners.
  • Common Medications: Vasopressors, sedative and anxiolytics. Paralytics, cardiac dysrhythmic meds.
  • Vasoactive Drip Titration is Required - Levophed, epinephrine, vasopressin, nicardipine, cleviprex.
    • Job Requirements
    • Critical care experience is a must.
    • Required: IV Insertion, PICC/Central Line Management, Vascular Device Access/Care, Dialysis Fistula Care/Management, A-Line Management, CVP
    • Preferred: PA Line Management, IABP
    • Required: Sheath Removal, Cardioversion/Defibrillation
    • Preferred: Obtain 12 Lead EKG, Epicardial Pacer Management
    • Required: Procedural Sedation, CPAP/BiPAP, Ventilators, High Freq Vents/Oscillators, Nitric Oxide, Trach Care
    • Preferred: EVD Management, ICP Monitoring, Impella/LVAD, Dialysis (obtain details peritoneal/CRRT/CVVHD), Rapid Infuser
    • Required: Feeding Tubes, Wound Vac
    • Preferred: Epidural/PCA Pumps
    • Preferred: Exp. w/Chemical Dependency
      • Schedule Information
      • Effective 01.08.2024 - 16 Hours of Unpaid Orientation
      • For roles with a guarantee, Boone Health can call off staff for up to 36 hours in a contract.
        • Unit Specific Information
        • Unit: 2S ICU
        • Number of Beds: 32
        • Nurse Patient Ratio: typically 1:2, can be 1:1 or 1:3 as well (Specific ratio is not guaranteed)
          • Additional Details
          • A VIRTUAL INTERVIEW WILL BE SENT TO YOUR CANDIDATE TO COMPLETE PRIOR TO SUBMITTING TO THE HOSPITAL FOR CONSIDERATION
          • PLEASE BE SURE TO HAVE A COMPLETE PACKET OR YOUR CANDIDATE WILL BE DENIED
          • CHECKLIST IS ATTACHED AND MUST BE THE FIRST PAGE OF THE SUBMISSION PACKET

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