Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit
Sonora, CA
Bestica
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

239284

BLS, ACLS, NIH, 1-2 Yr Experience

• 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.
• 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.