ICU RN
Saint Louis, Missouri
Barnes-Jewish Hospital

ICU Registered Nurse

Location

• Saint Louis, Missouri

Contract

• Travel/contract assignment
• 13 weeks
• Night shift, 3x12 hours
• Can sign for 36 or 48 hours per week
• Guaranteed hours: 36

Unit and setting

• ICU-Oncology
• Short-term acute care hospital
• Magnet, teaching hospital, Level I trauma center
• 25 beds
• Average daily census: 21
• Nurse-to-patient ratio: 1:2

Required qualifications

• Valid RN license in Missouri
• ICU - Intensive Care Unit (2 years of experience)
• ICU - Intensive Care Unit experience within the last year
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support issued by American Heart Association
• BLS - Basic Life Support issued by American Heart Association
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Experience with Epic

Schedule and assignment details

• Weekend requirement: every other weekend
• May float within scope to oncology floors, oncology service line, ICU, and potentially anywhere as needed
• No on-call
• No block schedule
• Local candidates not accepted within a 75-mile radius
• No more than 7 days of requested time off per 13-week contract

Key clinical skills and responsibilities

• Dysrhythmia interpretation and management
• Multi-system organ failure care
• IV insulin protocols
• Arterial line management
• Blood product administration
• Central line and PICC line care
• Starting IVs
• Continuous IV sedation and procedural sedation administration
• Titrating cardiac and vasoactive drips
• BiPAP, ventilator, and high-flow nasal cannula care
• ABG interpretation
• Suctioning and infection prevention
• Isolation precautions and PPE use
• Phlebotomy
• Surgical wound care with drains and wound vac

Preferred

• BSN
• Teaching hospital experience
• Travel experience

Additional notes

• No chemotherapy, central lines, or chest tubes on this unit
• Nurses draw their own phlebotomy
• Navy blue scrubs
• Parking is available for an additional cost