Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit - $1,854 per week at CHI St Lukes Health - Baylor St Lukes Medical Center
Houston, TX 77246
About the Job
- Required Certifications: BLS, ACLS, NIHSS preferred
Certification Details
- Thoracic SICU - C7A with 12 beds
- Nurse:Patient Ratios 1:2, 1:3 depending on downgrade/acuity/emergency admit
- Unit is ICU for Thoracic Surgery and overflow General Surgery ICU
Job Details
- Experience with early recognition of change in patient condition, clear communication and escalation with providers, critical thinking skills
- CRRT preferred
- Experience with hemodynamic monitoring, chest tubes, ventilator, various drains/surgical sites
- Ability to titrate drips such as vasopressin, epinephrine, levophed, heparin, dobutamine, dopamine, versed, hydromorphone, fentanyl, ketamine, nimbex, esmolol, cardene
- Need CRRT/SLED training on NxStage system, experience with PA catheters/hemodynamics, spinal drain management preferred
Job Requirements
- Self-scheduling within reason
- Weekend Requirements 4-6 days in 6 weeks depending on coverage
- Holiday Requirements: check with Larkin on this one
- Call or standby requirement may be flexed off if census is low
- Floating first to float, then OT floats, then remainder of staff
Schedule Information
- Number of unit/department specific orientation shifts: 2
Unit Specific Information
- Charge Nurse on each shift, preference is for free charge but currently taking full assignments
- Nurse aids/patient care techs on unit intermittently, 1:12 ratios when present
- Intensivist on unit days and/or nights, with APP's on unit 24/7
- No Tele/Monitor Techs on unit, RN reads own strips with Phillips monitors
- Dress Code: teal bottoms, black or printed coordinating scrub top, no shellac, dip, or acrylic nails allowed
Additional Details