Nurse (Intensive Care Unit)

About the role

The Indian Health Service (IHS) seeks nurses to provide comprehensive care to pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients. Your expertise brings healing and hope across generations.

Responsibilities

• Help initiate treatment, medications, emergency and resuscitative measures based on appropriate utilization of standing ICU orders, ACLS protocol, and provider orders.
• Use critical thinking and nursing judgment to recognize changes and characteristics that may affect the patient's health status.
• Administer therapeutic measures as prescribed by the physician such as medication treatments, intravenous fluids, blood transfusions, nasogastric tubes, internal and external catheters, wound care, etc.
• Observe and assess critically ill patients' health status by conducting a nursing assessment and examination, interviewing patient and family members, and reviewing patient's health history and ongoing hemodynamic monitoring.
• Develop a plan of care for individual patients by assessing the patient's condition and reviewing the patient's health record, determining and evaluating the kind of nursing care required by assessing the individual needs and goals of each patient.
• Maintain required certifications such as ACLS and BLS.

Requirements

Conditions of employment include U.S. Citizenship and selective service registration. This is a competitive vacancy announcement under Direct Hire Authority. The position requires a federal background investigation as a condition of employment.

Qualifications

• A graduate or higher-level degree, bachelor's degree, associate degree, or diploma from an accredited professional nursing educational program is required.
• Pass the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX).
• Possess a current, active, full, and unrestricted license or registration as a professional nurse from a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.
• Specialized experience in implementing and evaluating a plan for care for assigned patients; monitoring life support equipment for sudden changes in condition; using established clinical guidance/orders and escalating abnormal findings or urgent issues to higher level of nursing staff or providers; initiating treatment/medications and emergency/resuscitative measures based on facility and ACLS protocols; conducting a thorough nursing assessment and recognizing abnormal findings; interpreting data, documenting, and initiating treatment based on ICU equipment such as, invasive monitoring, defibrillators, ventilators, and other monitoring devices; coordinating care with the multidisciplinary team; providing comprehensive nursing care to patients by utilizing the nursing process to assess the needs of patients, prioritizing and organizing the plan of care from admission through discharge; collaborating with other health care professionals to identify individual patient needs and to develop, implement and evaluate plans of patient care for critically ill patients; administering therapeutic measures as prescribed by the physician to include, but not limited to, monitoring life functions, administering prescribed medication, and monitoring for compliance; providing local leadership in the unit such as charge nurse duties that the applicant coordinates and directs patient care and patient disposition.

Benefits

The IHS offers a comprehensive total compensation package, including a recruitment/relocation sign-on bonus for eligible candidates. A REAL ID will be required beginning May 7, 2025, in accordance with 6 C.F.R. 37.5 (2021).

Pay

Details on pay are provided on the IHS website.

Schedule

Positions may require rotating shifts, including days, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.