Local Contract Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit
Taos, NM
GHR Healthcare
3x12 hrs, Nights

Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse (ICU RN)

The ICU RN provides complex, continuous nursing care to critically ill adult patients in a high acuity hospital setting. This role supports advanced monitoring, life sustaining therapies, and close collaboration with the interdisciplinary critical care team.

Responsibilities
• Perform comprehensive assessments, monitor hemodynamics, ventilators, and invasive lines, and respond promptly to changes in patient condition
• Titrate vasoactive and sedation infusions per protocol, administer medications and blood products, and coordinate labs, imaging, and procedures
• Participate in rapid response and code events, provide education and support to patients and families, and document all care accurately in the EMR

Requirements
• Active RN license in the state of practice or compact
• Minimum 2 years of recent ICU or critical care experience
• Current BLS and ACLS certifications
• Strong critical thinking, advanced cardiac monitoring, and prioritization skills, with comfort managing ventilated and high acuity patients