ICU Registered Nurse
Ruidoso, New Mexico
Presbyterian Health Services Inc - Lincoln County Medical Center

ICU RN Job Opportunity

Location: Ruidoso, New Mexico
Employment Type: Clinical - Nursing
Contract Length: 13 weeks

Job Summary

• Provide direct patient care using the nursing process to an assigned group of patients during a shift.
• Ensure safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care.
• Assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and document individual patient needs, actions taken, and patient responses.
• Coordinate patient care through collaboration with patients, families, and healthcare team.
• Initiate, utilize, and document appropriate protocols and standards of care.
• Administer medications and treatments as prescribed and document accordingly.
• Identify and meet patient and family learning and discharge needs throughout care.
• Supervise LPNs and non-licensed assistive personnel clinically.
• Complete patient population/age-specific procedure and protocol education and competency testing per unit standards.
• Floating between departments or local locations within 20 miles is required.
• Must successfully pass a Basic Cardiac Arrhythmia (BCA) test onsite before starting the assignment; one retest allowed, failure results in contract cancellation.

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in New Mexico
• At least 2 years of current experience in the ICU RN specialty, including ICU experience within the last year
• Minimum 2 years of ICU (Intensive Care Unit) experience
• 13 weeks or more of total travel experience
• BLS certification issued by American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• ACLS certification issued by American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification
• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) or Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)