Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit
Quincy, IL
Malone Healthcare - Nursing
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

General Requirements

• Experience: Must have worked in a Level I or Level II trauma center and hospitals with 300+ beds.
• Unit: ICU – 2nd floor (mostly MICU, some SICU).
• Beds: 16
• Nurse-to-Patient Ratio: 1:2

Required Certifications

• ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support)
• BLS (Basic Life Support)
• NIHSS (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale)

Patient Population / Common Diagnoses

• CRRT (Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy, Prismaflex)
• Rotaprone therapy
• TTM (Targeted Temperature Management) – Arctic Sun
• Mass transfusions / MTP (Massive Transfusion Protocol)
• Train of 4 monitoring, frequent paralysis
• ECMO occasionally
• 24-hour EEG monitoring
• EVD (External Ventricular Drain), LP drain
• Neurosurgery patients
• Trauma patients (drownings, tractor rollovers, fractures, MVAs, spinal injuries)
• Sepsis, DKA, post-surgical recovery, post-heart cath (sometimes pulling sheaths)
• COVID patients
• Organ recovery (procurement only, no transplants done here)

Experience / Skills Required

• Prefer experience pulling sheaths
• CRRT experience highly preferred
• Must have Level II trauma experience or above
• RNs required to titrate drips

Common titratable ICU drips:

• Precedex
• Pressors
• Anti-arrhythmics
• Sedation
• Common ICU drips

Bedside procedures:

• Trachs, chest tube insertion, bronchoscopy assistance, arterial line insertion

Unit Leadership

• Charge Nurse / House Supervisor:
  • Day shift usually functions as a senior staff nurse
  • Night shift may act as house supervisor but takes a smaller assignment to assist staff