Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit
Santa Cruz, CA
TheraEX Staffing Services
3x12 hrs, Nights

Charting System:
Cerner

Unit Notes
**Holiday RTO will be considered, however not guaranteed**

- Unit: ICU
- # beds: 16 and can go to 20 beds
- Certs: BLS, ACLS, NIHSS, PALS and CCRN preferred
- Ratios: 1:1, 1:2
- EMR: Cerner
- Charge Nurse: yes and doesn't carry patients
- Nurse Aides: No
- Weekend Requirement: Every other weekend & would be required to fill in gaps in wknd schedule
- Call: Must be within 30 minutes of hospital; driven by census and call would always be a shift originally scheduled and got put on call
- Holidays: Work in to the holiday schedule
- Scrub Color: Navy
- Tele: Phillips
- Vents: Yes Draeger Vents - per RT
- Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: 24 hr intensivist (on call at night)
- IV Team: IV team during the day
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: Yes
- Shifts: depending on census/staffing mismatch nurse could be on call (30 minute response time) 8s & 12s (mostly 12s)
Floating: float to tele 4 to 1
- Floor specific orientation: 2 shifts in ICU then on own 3rd shift
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: Adults & Peds - MedSurg, Neuro, Balloon pumps (perm staff does, if have experience will do class & bedside check-off), cranies, occasional ICP, CABG, some trauma that aren't transferred out, psych - OD, peds minor/DKA, TPA, hypothermia, ECMO, Impalla, CRRT - PrismaFlex (perm staff does, if have experience will do class & bedside check-off), TAVR, & EVAR, may start doing carotid stenting, ECOS, IABP (not required to be able to do--would have to get checked off)
- Additional Notes: Must have 2 years of ICU experience