Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit - $2,099 per week
Heywood Hospital
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Gardner, Massachusetts
Company
Heywood Hospital
Location
Gardner, Massachusetts
Type
Full Time
Job Description
- Certification Details
- BLS
- Current MA Registered Nurses license
- ACLS
- Job Details
- Assesses and reassesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals.
- Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures.
- Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patients sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
- Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning.
- Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary.
- Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others.
- Appropriately prioritizes patient care and seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources.
- Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards.
- Promotes learning for colleagues and self.
- Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors.
- Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address.
- Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physicians orders, protocols, policies and procedures.
- Assesses patient pain level upon admission and as necessary, depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale.
- Performs accurate and timely identification of cardiac arrhythmias and interpretation of EKG configuration changes.
- Institutes, monitors, and documents thrombolytic and anticoagulation therapy standards and protocols.
- Demonstrates knowledge of mechanical ventilation and skills associated with initiation, maintenance, and care of the intubated patient.
- Accurately interprets arterial blood gases, pulse oximetry, and clinical features of impaired gas exchange and/or airway clearance.
- Demonstrates understanding of hemodynamic monitoring procedures and assists with arterial artery and central vein cannulation.
- Safely administers vasoactive medications and provides ongoing assessment and monitoring of the patient in the immediate post-operative phase.
- Job Requirements
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing
- 1 yr med-surge experience preferred
- Previous telemetry experience preferred
- ICU experience preferred
- Current MA Registered Nurses license
- BLS-AHA required
- ACLS obtained within 60-days of hire
- CCRN preferred
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02/08/2025
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