Critical Care Float ICU RN
Baltimore, Maryland
MedStar Union Memorial Hospital

ICU RN

Overview

• Location: Baltimore, Maryland
• Employment type: Travel/Contract
• Contract length: 13 weeks
• Start date: 11/24
• Shift: Night, 3x12 hours (19:00 to 07:30)
• Hours: 12 hours per day, 36 hours per week
• Local candidates: Candidates within 60 miles are accepted.

Schedule and Float

• Float required
• Every 3rd weekend required
• Scrubs: navy blue, or navy blue bottoms with a white top. Scrubs are not provided.

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Maryland
• Critical Care Float experience: 2 years, including experience within the last year
• Completion of one travel assignment
• ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) issued by American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• BLS (Basic Life Support) issued by American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• NIHSS certification
• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) / Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)
• Valid driver's license
• ECMO experience
• ICU (Intensive Care Unit) experience

Clinical Focus

• Patient diagnoses: Acute MI, respiratory failure, COPD exacerbation, pneumonia, COVID, PE, DKA, HHNK, angioedema, unstable angina, acute renal failure, hypertensive crisis, cardiac arrest, acute CVA, drug and poison overdose, sepsis, and rhabdomyolysis
• Procedures and unit details: TPA administration and monitoring, manual proning, Bilevel/APRV ventilation, trach care, ETT care, post-cath care including sheath monitoring and removal, targeted temperature management, IABP management, continuous renal replacement therapy, cardiac output monitoring, and transvenous pacing

Onboarding and Compliance

• Background checks: Criminal background check within 90 days of start, covering all locations lived, worked, or in school over the past 7 years. Also EPLS/GSA/SAM and HHS/OIG checks prior to start and monthly thereafter. Education verification for the highest required degree.
• Drug screen: Within 90 days of start. Does not include marijuana.
• I-9/E-Verify: Required upon hire.
• Competency exams:

  • Medication/pharmacology exam with a score of at least 80%, updated every 3 years
  • General competency exam within 3 years of start, with a score of at least 80%
  • Color blind testing (online or in-person)
• Skills checklist: Required prior to start and updated annually.
• Facility modules: Must be completed by the candidate. These take multiple hours.
• Badge photo: Required.
• Health documents:

  • Annual physical stating the candidate can perform work without accommodations and is free from communicable disease, signed by an MD, PA, NP, or DO
  • Negative TB test or chest X-ray within 1 year, plus an annual TB questionnaire
  • Documentation of 2 MMR vaccines or a positive titer (measles, mumps, rubella)
  • Documentation of 2 varicella vaccines or a positive titer
  • Hepatitis B titer, series of 3, or signed declination
  • N95 fit test within 9 months of start, updated annually
  • Annual flu vaccination or a medical/religious exemption. Vaccines cannot be received onsite. Facility requires all employees to be vaccinated.
  • Tdap within 10 years (preferred)