ICU RN
Kansas City, Missouri
Saint Luke's Hospital

ICU Registered Nurse

Overview

• Travel/contract role in Kansas City, Missouri
• Night shift: 3x12 hours, 6:45 PM to 7:15 AM
• 36 hours per week
• Contract length: 13 weeks
• First-time travelers accepted
• Local candidates accepted
• Floating may be required between departments, units, and facilities
• On-call not required
• Weekend requirement: 8 weekend shifts per 6-week schedule period
• Requested time off: no more than 7 days
• Guaranteed hours: 3 shifts per 13 weeks

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Missouri
• ICU - Intensive Care Unit (2 years of experience)
• ICU - Intensive Care Unit experience within the last year
• BLS issued by American Heart Association
• ACLS issued by American Heart Association
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Pre/Post Cath Lab experience

Clinical Experience and Skills

• Medical ICU and Surgical ICU
• Dysrhythmia interpretation and management
• Multisystem organ dysfunction/failure
• CVP monitoring
• Epicardial pacing wire care and management
• Pre/post cardiac cath or intervention
• Pulmonary artery line/Swan Ganz monitoring
• Sheath removal
• IV insulin protocols
• Acute kidney injury and chronic/acute renal failure
• Intake/output monitoring
• Pre/post hemodialysis management
• Shunts/fistula care
• Urine output assessment
• Port access/management
• Arterial line management
• Blood product administration
• Central line and PICC line care/management
• Starting and maintaining IVs
• Continuous IV sedation
• Emergency medications
• Procedural sedation administration/monitoring
• Titration of cardiac and vasoactive drips
• CVA/acute stroke management
• BiPAP/CPAP management
• Ventilated patient care
• Fresh tracheostomy care
• High-flow nasal cannula
• ABG interpretation
• Pulmonary edema and respiratory failure
• Suctioning (ETT, NT)
• Ventilator management
• ACT, fibrinogen, INR, PT/PTT
• Infection prevention and isolation precautions/PPE
• High-output drain management
• Recognition of infection in immunosuppressed patients

Special Requirements

• STEMI
• Complex heart failure
• Post-code care
• Complex cardiac patients with Impella/IABP support
• LVAD patients 1 year post-implant
• Complex medical patients
• CRRT
• Impella
• IABP

Additional Notes

• Scrub color: navy blue
• Charting system: Epic