ICU RN
Globe, Arizona
Cobre Valley Community Hospital

Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse - Nights

Location: Globe, Arizona Employment Type: Contract Contract Length: 13 weeks Hours: 36 per week Shift: 12-hour night shift, 7p-7a, plus call

Unit Overview

• Six bed MOSU providing comprehensive nursing care for post-surgical patients, post cardiac catheterizations with post PCI, respiratory failure, sepsis, DKA, AKI, and unstable arrhythmias

Requirements

• Valid RN license in Arizona
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Intensive Care Unit (ICU) experience: 3 years, with experience within the last year
• BLS
• ACLS
• PALS
• NIHSS
• Flu vaccine required, no exceptions
• Will not accept a traveler who has a permanent address within 100 miles of the facility
• Experience with ventilator management
• Experience with central line management
• Experience with arterial lines
• Chest tube management
• Initiation and titration of vasopressors
• Thrombolytics management

Experience Required

• Critical care nursing
• Initiation, titration, and management of vasopressors, thrombolytics, antihypertensives, antidiabetics, and sedation
• Ventilator management
• Hemodynamic monitoring
• Telemetry monitoring and interpretation
• Sepsis management
• Central line, arterial line, and chest tube management
• Blood administration

Equipment

• Medication infusion pumps, Rapid Infuser, bedside cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators
• BiPAP/CPAP, high-flow nasal cannula, bladder scanner

Patient Ratios

• Critical: 2:1
• Step Down: 4:1
• Standard: 6:1

Float Scope

• May float to Med/Surg, Telemetry, Step-Down, and Observation floors

Schedule Terms

• Up to 3 days of time off may be requested per 13-week contract
• Facility may cancel up to 3 shifts per 13-week assignment; guaranteed hours will not apply