Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit - $1,691 per week Job Listing at Rapides Regional Medical Center LA in Alexandria, LA (Job ID 4612580-2024-08-25)

Description

Certification Details
• Certifications Required: ACLS and BLS
• TNCC a plus

Job Details
• Hospital: Rapides Regional Medical Center
• Location: Alexandria, Louisiana
• Address: 211 4th Street
• Unit Name: Medical ICU
• Building: South Tower
• Cost Center: 65073
• General Information
• Unit Specifics: Number of Beds: 26, Patient Ratios: 2:1, Unit staffing description: RNs and Unit secretary. Total care is provided by RNs.
• Type of equipment: Ventilators, Alaris IV pumps, Balloon pumps, ventriculostomy drains, glucometers.
• Use of iMobile phones and technology by all staff in the hospital.
• PPE- includes mask, face shields, goggles, PAPR's and hoods for our COVID-19 patients.
• Documentation system: Meditech using EBCD (Evidence Based Clinical Documentation)
• Hiring profile

Job Requirements
• Must have: Must be willing to care for COVID-19 patients, ICU experience, Positive attitude, flexibility, teamwork, desire for excellence, self-motivated, good communication and people skills, ability to work in a diverse environment.
• Advanced skills needed: Ventilator management, critical care drip knowledge, thorough and accurate assessment skills, and proficient knowledge with cardiac, neuro, and respiratory systems, and Don and Doff of PPE.

Schedule Information
• Scheduling requirements: All nursing shift are twelve hours from 7 to 7; every other weekend.
• Holiday requirements
• Floating policy: Nursing staff will float to other Medical-Surgical Units in the hospital as needed with priority focus on pulling to Intensive Care Units.
• Patient Experience requirements: Hourly rounding, bedside hand-off reporting, completion of 'My Care Board' during hand-off report; use of AIDET with a focus on compassionate connected care.

Unit Specific Information
• Unit Details: Number of Beds: 26
• Patient Ratios: 2:1
• Procedures performed on unit: Intubations, cardioversions, ventriculostomy drain placement and management, IABP management, continual renal replacement therapy (CRRT), proning of patients.
• Unit Guidelines/Policies: Please attach unit specific policies and guidelines.
• Awards/Recognition: HCA Unit of Distinction winner of top 10% and 5%. Finished overall #2 ranked ICU in HCA in 2019.
• Quality measures are highly maintained
• Any additional information that would entice a worker to select your unit for their assignment: Many staff members are nationally certified, including managers
• Several highly tenured nursing staff
• Self-scheduling within certain guidelines
• iMobile technology
• This unit cares for ICU COVID-19 patients

Additional Details
• Dress Code: Ceil blue scrubs, White or ceil blue scrub jacket optional
• If working with COVID patients, green surgery scrubs will be provided upon arrival to unit.

Compensation Information:
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