Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit - $2,692 per week
Specialty: ICU - Intensive Care Unit | Discipline: RN | Start Date: ASAP | Duration: 8 weeks | 36 hours per week | Shift: 12 hours, days | Employment Type: Travel
About the Facility
Central to all that California has to offer, Adventist Health Bakersfield has been providing an extraordinary team of world-class physicians, top-notch medical technology, caring professionals, and award-winning quality since 1910. The facility includes a 254-bed acute care hospital and 20 primary and specialty care medical offices.
Bakersfield is one of America's fastest-growing cities, offering affordable housing on the West Coast, beautiful weather, and high-quality education. It is just a few hours away from Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks, the Central California Coast, and Southern California's sports, theaters, concerts, and amusement parks.
Surrounded by mountain ranges, wildflowers, and the Kern River, Bakersfield is ideal for outdoor activities such as hiking, whitewater rafting, and kayaking. The city also boasts a dynamic musical community and is known as the birthplace of the "Bakersfield sound" country music genre.
About the Role
Delivers coordinated nursing care for a patient or an assigned group of patients according to established standards of care and the nursing process. Supervises and directs the activities of various levels of assigned nursing staff and coordinates care with other disciplines while utilizing critical thinking, professional and supervisory discretion, and independent judgment.
Responsibilities
- Collects relevant data pertinent to the patient’s health or situation.
- Analyzes the assessment data in determining diagnosis and care issues.
- Develops a plan that prescribes interventions to attain outcomes.
- Implements the plan, coordinates care delivery, and employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
- Evaluates progress toward attaining outcomes.
- Identifies outcomes for the patient or the patient’s situation.
- Collaborates with the team of patient, family, and healthcare providers in providing patient care in a safe, healing, humane, and caring environment.
- Provides learning opportunities for patients/family members and team members.
- Directly provides health information to patients, families, and treatment team.
- Participates in discharge planning to provide continuity of care.
- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of healthcare team members.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice: Required
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) or Basic Life Support (BLS OR HS-BLS OR RQIBLS) certification: Required
- ACLS certification: Required
- 2 years of ICU-cardiac experience: Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN): Preferred
- Acute care facility experience: Preferred
- SSN and DOB required for compliance
- 1 professional reference from the last 24 months
Pay
Pay Rate: $2,624.00 - $2,759.00 per week (based on 12-hour shifts and 36 hours per week, subject to confirmation).
Benefits
- Competitive pay rates
- Free, quality, private housing
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401(k) and Flex Spending options
- Life Insurance
- Accident and Short-term Disability Coverage
- Free Continuing Education opportunities
- Referral bonuses
- Company-provided housing options