Travel Nurse RN - CVICU
Albuquerque, NM
Integrated Healthcare Services
3x12 hrs, Nights

Job Opportunity: CCC RN

Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Employment Type: Clinical - Nursing
Contract Length: 16 weeks

Job Summary

• Provide direct patient care using the nursing process to an assigned group of patients during a shift.
• Ensure safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care.
• Assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and document individual patient needs, actions taken, and patient responses.
• Coordinate patient care through collaboration with patients, families, and healthcare team members.
• Initiate, utilize, and document appropriate protocols and standards of care.
• Administer medications and treatments as prescribed or per standard protocols, documenting accordingly.
• Identify and meet patient and family learning and discharge needs throughout the episode of care.
• Provide clinical supervision of LPNs and non-licensed assistive personnel.
• Complete patient population/age-specific procedure and protocol education and competency testing per unit standards.
• Floating between departments and/or local locations within 20 miles is required.

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in New Mexico
• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) or Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)
• Minimum 2 years of ICU (Intensive Care Unit) experience, including experience within the last year
• Experience in an Acute Care setting
• At least 13 weeks of total travel nursing experience
• BLS certification issued by American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• ACLS certification issued by American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• NIHSS (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale) certification

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with open heart surgery, LVAD, and balloon pump.
• EPIC electronic health record experience (training available on-site).

This position requires flexibility to float between departments and local sites within a 20-mile radius. Prior travel nursing experience is mandatory.