Registered Nurse - ICU
Personal Touch Home Health Care Services Inc. · St Louis, MO · Yesterday
On-siteHealthcareFull-time
About the role
Role Overview: A Registered Nurse provides comprehensive nursing care in the Intensive Care Unit, assessing, managing, and coordinating patient activities during hospitalization.
Responsibilities
- Conducts age-appropriate assessments
- Develops and evaluates individualized care plans
- Administers medications
- Monitors patient responses
- Documents care accurately
- Collaborates with healthcare teams
- Educates patients and families
- Ensures safe, effective treatments
- Recognizes and responds to changes in patient conditions
- Implements specialized care such as pain management, restraint use, and abuse assessment
- Maintains infection control practices
- Promotes service excellence
- Participates in quality improvement initiatives
- Performs thorough assessments
- Formulates and modifies care plans
- Executes nursing interventions
- Ensures patient safety
- Advocates for patients
- Maintains documentation
- Supports ongoing professional development
- Contributes to performance improvement efforts
Qualifications & Skills
Valid RN license in the relevant state, minimum one year of RN experience, and current BLS and ALS certifications. Demonstrates professionalism, adaptability, effective communication, teamwork, and adherence to safety and infection control policies.
Schedule
The position is PRN/Per Diem within ICU, requiring flexibility and a commitment to delivering high-quality, patient-centered care while adhering to all regulatory and institutional standards.