Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit
San Diego, CA
Med Ninjas
3x12 hrs, Days

Job Summary (List Format):

Key Responsibilities:
- Provide patient and family-centered care to achieve holistic, individualized goals.
- Perform comprehensive nursing assessments, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care.
- Promote quality outcomes and patient satisfaction.
- Collaborate with healthcare team and seek resources for complex or high-risk cases.
- Advocate for patients and families, ensuring their needs and rights are addressed.

Core Skills & Duties:
- Assess and document patient and family needs, prioritizing care.
- Develop and document care plans in collaboration with patients, families, and healthcare team.
- Implement and adapt nursing interventions appropriate to age and culture.
- Evaluate patient/family progress toward goals and revise interventions as needed.
- Identify and address educational needs for patients and families, using adult-learning principles.
- Recognize and address barriers to communication; adapt care for diverse populations.
- Delegate and assign care appropriately within the scope of practice of team members.
- Coordinate care with ancillary staff and communicate effectively to expedite patient progress.
- Participate in and initiate patient care conferences as needed.

Technical Skills & Procedures:
- Perform and document core nursing procedures including:
- Donning/doffing PPE
- Esophageal temperature probe usage
- Hand hygiene
- Infusion and maintenance of nasal tube retaining devices
- Intra-abdominal pressure and arterial pressure monitoring
- Mechanical compression devices (Autopulse/Lucas)
- Subcutaneous insulin administration
- Alaris pump operation
- Blood product administration
- CO2, EKG, and ICP monitoring
- Care of urinary catheters and central venous access devices (CVAD/PICC/Midline)
- Chest tube management
- Hemodialysis and mechanical/non-invasive ventilation
- Nutrition management (oral, enteral, parenteral)
- Pain assessment/management and PCA
- Hyperglycemic management (Endotool, Novastat)
- Secretion mobilization, trach care
- Pulmonary artery pressure monitoring/cardiac output determination
- Therapeutic hypothermia
- Prevention of CAUTI, CLABSI, HAPI
- Death pronouncement

Licensure/Certifications:
- Active California RN license.
- Current certifications in CPR, ACLS, and NIHSS.

Education & Experience:
- BSN or ADN required.
- Minimum 3 years recent RN experience.
- At least 2 years recent experience in a specialty area.

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