CCU RN
Aberdeen, SD
Access Healthcare
3x12 hrs, Rotating

RN Med Surg/Critical Care Unit

Overview

• Location: Aberdeen, South Dakota
• Contract length: 13 weeks
• Shift: Day/Night Rotate
• Hours: 12-hour shifts
• Weekly hours: 48

Required Qualifications

• SD RN or multistate compact RN license
• BLS certification
• ACLS certification

Preferred

• Minimum 2 years of CCU experience
• Prior Med/Surg, PEDS, and ED experience
• CCRN
• TNCC

Role Details

• Provides individualized nursing care for critically ill adolescent (16+) through geriatric medical/surgical patients
• Interprets and responds to hemodynamic monitoring results
• Anticipates and responds to patient complications, situations, and crises
• Collaborates with physicians and other healthcare workers, and delegates/supervises unlicensed personnel
• May supervise students assigned to CCU as part of their training

Unit Details

• CCU has 8 private rooms
• Minimum staffing is 2 RNs when there is a patient in the department; does not work alone
• Critical care patient ratio is 1:1 or 1:2
• Med/Surg overflow patients are 1:4
• May float to Med/Surg and PEDS if CCU census is low

Schedule

• No call requirement
• Every other weekend required
• Holiday rotation required
• Rotates days and nights

Orientation

• 2 days of hospital orientation
• 1 to 2 days of unit-specific orientation

Additional Notes

• Navy blue scrubs
• Clinician must badge in and out at the facility
• Submission must note if clinician has ever worked for Sanford Health; if previously worked there, end date must be at least 6 months before submission date