Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit
La Mesa, CA
Voca Healthcare
3x12 hrs, Nights

Registry RN / Float Pool, the requirements are:

Required qualifications

• Active California RN license
• BSN or ADN — either is acceptable.
• At least 3 years of recent RN experience working in an RN role.
• At least 2 years of recent RN experience in a specialty area.
  • The posting does not specify one particular specialty in the text you provided.
• CPR certification
• ACLS certification
• NIH certification — the posting lists NIH under required certifications; this appears to mean NIHSS (NIH Stroke Scale), so I would verify the exact certification requirement before submission.

• Float-pool requirement

• This is particularly important.
• The nurse is joining a Sharp HealthCare float pool, so they must be comfortable floating to different areas.
• The posting states the nurse may:
• Float to ICU units
• Float to a unit one level of care lower
• Float to another Sharp facility
• Therefore, I would want the candidate's specialty experience to be strong enough to support this type of floating assignment.

• Schedule

• 12-hour nights
• 36 hours/week guaranteed
• This is a winter-need position.
• Listed start dates are 10/12 through 11/16.

• Candidate screening checklist

• For submission, I'd want to see:
• ✓ Active CA RN license
  ✓ ADN or BSN
  ✓ 3+ years recent RN experience
  ✓ 2+ years recent specialty experience
  ✓ CPR
  ✓ ACLS
  ✓ NIHSS/NIH certification as required
  ✓ Strong nursing-process competency
  ✓ Ability to manage complex/high-risk patients
  ✓ Comfortable floating to ICU/other Sharp facilities
  ✓ Available for 12-hour night shifts