Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit - $2,559 per week at Stephens Memorial
Norway, ME 04268
About the Job
- Certifications Required: BLS, ACLS
- Certifications Preferred: PALS
Certification Details
- Specialty: RN
- Employment Type: Travel
- Start date of 11/18/24 for 12 weeks
- Facility Name: Stephens Memorial Hospital
- Total # of Facility Beds: 25
- Unit Name: Special Care Unit (SCU)
- Unit Specialty: Intermediate Care/Critical Care
- Total # of Unit Beds/Suites/Deliveries: 4 beds
- Teaching Facility: Yes
- Teaching Hospital Experience Required: No
- Trauma Level: Community Hospital Emergency Department
- Prior Travel Experience Required: No
- Minimum # Years Clinical Experience Required: 2 years
- Minimum # Years Clinical Experience in Specialty Required: one year
- Nurse Patient Ratio by shift: two patients per nurse in SCU
- Ancillary Assistance: Yes
- Nurse Staff per shift: two nurses
- Unit clerk/Secretary: Yes
- Other Staff per shift: one or two nurses depending on census and patient acuity
- Advanced Practice on the unit: no
- # Days of Orientation: 2 or 3 days
- Specialty Testing for Unit/Facility: Fit testing/flu/Covid vaccines
- Patient Care Modality: team and primary nursing
Job Details
- Certifications Required: BLS, ACLS
- Certifications Preferred: PALS
- Minimum # Years Clinical Experience Required: 2 years
- Minimum # Years Clinical Experience in Specialty Required: one year
Job Requirements
- Shift Hours: 7p to 7:30am
- Rotation Schedule: no rotation to days
- Self-Scheduling: no
- Weekend Requirements: every other
- Call Requirements: none
- Holiday Requirements: every other
Schedule Information
- Unit Name: Special Care Unit (SCU)
- Unit Specialty: Intermediate Care/Critical Care
- Total # of Unit Beds/Suites/Deliveries: 4 beds
- Nurse Patient Ratio by shift: two patients per nurse in SCU
- Documentation System: Epic
- Medication System: Epic and Pyxis
- Floating Required: No
- To what units/facilities: Med-Surg most likely
- Describe the rotation: when census on SCU is low; nurse to patient ratio would be higher than in SCU
- Charge required: No
- Patient Population (Diagnoses): Intermediate/Critical Care patients and Med-Surg overflow patients; respiratory, cardiac, sepsis, Covid, Diabetic patients most common
- Age Range: adult/geriatric and occasionally pediatric patients
- Special Equipment: IV drips, IV pumps, ventilators, cardiac monitors, blood transfusions
- Respiratory available 24/7 for support: No
- Anesthesia available 24/7 for support: On call
- Who manages ventilators: Respiratory Therapy
- Unit Specific Procedures and Protocols: All of the above except discontinuing sheaths
Unit Specific Information
