ICU Registered Nurse
Lakeport, CA
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Nurse, Intensive Care Unit. The position provides direct care to adult and geriatric patients in an intensive care setting using the nursing process. Responsibilities include managing assigned patients, coordinating care with interdisciplinary teams, and directing ancillary staff activities.

Job Details

• Required Qualifications: Two years of intensive care unit experience; Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS), and National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certifications; experience managing a typical patient ratio of 1:2.
• Schedule: Night shift, 12-hour shifts from 7:00 PM to 7:30 AM, 36 hours per week, with weekend rotation required.
• Additional Information: Provides assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care while addressing physical, psychosocial, safety, rehabilitative, and learning needs. Clinical responsibilities include ventilator management, arterial and central line care, continuous intravenous sedation and paralytic management, vasoactive and cardiac drip titration, blood product administration, dysrhythmia management, acute stroke care, arterial blood gas interpretation, procedural sedation monitoring, and care of patients with multisystem organ dysfunction or failure. Interdisciplinary support includes physical therapy, respiratory services, interpretation services, phlebotomy, radiology, social services, and pharmacy.

Benefits

The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:

• Private housing or generous housing allowance
• Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
• Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
• Competitive salaries
• Referral bonuses
• Travel reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Direct deposit/free checking
• Unlimited free CE credits