Location: Iron Mountain, Michigan
Contract Length: 20 weeks
Shift: Nights, 12-hour shifts (0700-1900 and 1900-0700), 4x12 hours (48 hours/week)
Required Qualifications
Certifications: ACLS, BLS
Minimum 2 years of ICU experience in an ICU setting
Must be comfortable floating to MS-Tele
Must be able to float to Med/Surg; may be asked to take ratios of 1:3-6
Must be comfortable troubleshooting and assisting with RT equipment (vents, CPAP, BiPAP, heated high flow)
Must be able to titrate drips
Must note in submission if they have ever worked for the facility. If they previously worked there, their end date must be at least 6 months before their submission date.
Preferred Qualifications
Critical Access or Trauma Level 3 or 4 experience, or experience in a rural setting
Unit Details
Beds: 5-bed ICU (2 IMC beds in hallway)
Patient ratios: 2:1 for ICU; 3:1 for IMC, depending on acuity
Common diagnoses: Respiratory failure, septic shock, detox, DKA, A-fib, arrhythmias requiring pacing. Strong in vent management. No pulmonology, dialysis, or cardiac surgery.
Titratable and set-rate drips: Levophed, propofol, Cardizem, esmolol, insulin
Resources: Limited onsite resources (no IV team; RT oversees the entire hospital)
Nurse aides: None on this unit
Charge nurse: Takes a full assignment
Physician coverage: Hospitalist or intensivist in house until 6 PM daily; ICU Tele physician coverage at night
RT coverage: Available 24/7, not housed in the ICU
Monitoring: Tele monitor techs present 0700-1900 daily; RN verifies strips. RN also watches and signs off on MS unit strips (training provided if needed).
Schedule and Expectations
Scheduling: Shifts cannot be guaranteed as blocked; longer blocks of 6 shifts are considered when possible. Self-scheduling is accommodated when possible.
Weekends: Rotating every other weekend (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
Holidays: Works 2 of 3 holidays
On-call/standby: Potential opportunity to be placed on call or standby
Dress code: Solid professional scrubs, no specific color
Clocking: All clinicians must clock in and out at the facility
Orientation
Day 1: Computer education for 8 hours, then shadowing for 4 hours
Day 2: 12-hour orientation shift
Day 3: Works independently
Facility
Dickinson County Healthcare System
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Critical Access
96 beds
ADDRESS1721 South StephensonIron Mountain, MI 49801
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