Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit
Sonora, CA
Talent4Health
3x12 hrs, Days, Nights

RN-ICU

Job Description

• Total Bed Count: 12 #Bed Types and How Divided: 6 ICU, 6 SDU
• Staffing Ratios: 1:2 (When in SDU, 1:3)
• Schedule Requirements: Call Required: If the shift begins overstaffed, nurses may be put on call for a shift     
• Float Required: All nurses float to SDU regularly.  
• Floating to med surg or ED may be necessary if ICU/SDU census is low.
• Weekend Coverage: Every other weekend.   
• Special Procedures: Moderate sedation     
• Scrubs: Any Solid Color
• Adventist Health Sonora has a 6 bed ICU and a 6 bed stepdown unit, with staff shared between the units.  
• The ratio is 1:2 in ICU, and 1:3 in SDU.  
• Occasionally patient acuity may require 1:1 care in the ICU.  
• We do not do cardiovascular surgery, neuro surgery, or Trauma at our hospital, but we may admit any other type of ICU patient.
• Typical patients include respiratory failure, DKA, post cardiac Cath STEMI patients, Sepsis patients, alcohol withdrawal, etc.  
• On the SDU unit, we admit patients on diltiazem and amiodarone drips for Afib RVR, have patients on BIPAP, and a variety of other patient types.  
• Nurses should be able to manage titratable IV drips, including vasopressors, propofol, fentanyl, etc.  
• ICU shifts are from 0700 to 1930, or 1900 to 1930.  
• Orientation includes one day of virtual AH orientation, one day of orientation in our Education department, and two clinical orientation shifts.