ICU RN
Cortez, Colorado
Southwest Memorial Hospital

ICU RN

Overview

• Travel RN role in Cortez, Colorado.
• Must float to Med Surg.
• 13-week contract, 36 hours per week.

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Colorado.
• ICU - Intensive Care Unit (1 year of experience).
• ICU - Intensive Care Unit experience within the last year.
• BLS.
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing.
• Med Surg experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Additional languages.
• Minimum of 1 year ICU/Inpatient experience.

Unit / Clinical Setting

• ICU.
• Patient population includes DKA, cardiac, sepsis, surgical, and high-risk decline patients.
• ICU patient ratio is 2:1 for ICU status patients; may be 4:1 for Med Surg status patients when there are no current ICU status patients.

Clinical Duties

• Provides nursing care across the lifespan, including newborns through end of life.
• Supports telemetry monitoring and basic arrhythmia interpretation.
• Assists with procedures, rounds, medication administration, documentation, and patient care planning.
• Additional unit-specific duties include family birthing, procedural sedation, antepartum/intrapartum/postpartum care, rapid sequence intubation, fetal monitoring, advanced cardiac monitoring, NST, rapid infuser, epidural, critical drips, induction, trauma alert, newborn care, CVP and A-line monitoring, ventilator/BiPAP, hearing screening, pre-term care, infant security, EMTALA, CCHD screening, and phototherapy.

Work Environment / Conditions

• Potential exposure to infectious waste, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, foul odors, heat, cold, snow, rain, and wind.
• Moderate to occasionally loud noise level.
• Occasional interaction with belligerent or aggressive patients and significant others.
• Heavy physical demands, including lifting up to 100 lbs occasionally.

Other Information

• No parking costs.
• Scrub colors are specified by the facility.