Registered Nurse, Interim Care IMC, Full Time, Night

Department Details

14-bed Intermediate/Critical Care unit caring for a diverse and high-acuity patient population. Patients commonly treated include those with sepsis and septic shock, hypertensive emergencies requiring IV therapy, acute respiratory failure (invasive and non-invasive ventilation), ARDS, and patients requiring prone therapy. The unit also manages status epilepticus, hypotension, gastrointestinal bleeding (including use of rapid infusers and massive transfusion protocols), DIC, intentional and unintentional overdoses, cardiac arrest patients (with or without targeted temperature management), and acute or chronic renal failure requiring HD, PD, or CRRT. Post-operative patients needing enhanced monitoring are also frequently admitted. Nurses care for patients with a wide range of invasive monitoring and access, including PA catheters, central venous catheters, arterial lines, PICC lines, bladder pressure monitoring, and are responsible for the titration of vasoactive medications.

Skills

• Physical and cognitive requirements: Position’s physical requirements necessitate a full range of body motion including but not limited to, physically assisting patients, requiring stretching, bending, lifting, sitting, kneeling, stooping, standing, walking, pushing and pulling. Position is classified according to the USDOL as Very Heavy Work which is defined as exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Manual and finger dexterity and hand-eye coordination are also required as is constant talking and listening in English. Must demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills, including speech clarity, understanding the information relayed, deductive and inductive reasoning skills (the ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense and the ability to combine pieces of information to/from general rules or conclusion respectively).
• Considerable walking, standing, sitting, reaching, filing, typing and photocopying required.
• Ability to perform work accurately and pay attention to details, often changing from one task to another without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Ability to function competently in stressful situations and changing work environment related to changing needs of patients with acute, chronic and complex and/or terminal disease processes.
• Ability to work cooperatively within health system, multidisciplinary team members (i.e. MD’s, Rehab, Respiratory, DI, Laboratory, etc.).
• Ability to utilize effective time management skills to set priorities to perform responsibilities, problem solve and deliver care.

Pay

Pay Range: $47.80 - $59.75 (per hour)