**Job Title:** Registered Nurse
**Job Specialty:** Intermediate Care Unit
**Job Duration:** 13 weeks
**Shift:** Night, 3x12-Hour (19:00 - 07:00)
**Guaranteed Hours:** Not specified
**Experience:** Minimum 2 years; first timers not accepted
**License:** GA or Compact license required
**Certifications:** BLS, ACLS, NIH/NIHSS
**Must-Have:** Availability to provide core items and complete/schedule labs within 48 hours of signing the contract.
**Job Description:**
- Care for a patient population ranging from adults to geriatrics.
- Manage and treat conditions such as COVID-19, respiratory failure, DKA, renal failure, hypertension emergencies, CHF, post-carotid endarterectomy, post-surgical patients, sepsis, and stroke.
- Handle and adjust various drips including amiodarone, Cardizem, precede, cardene, labetalol, dopamine, dobutamine, insulin, and Nitro.
- Operate equipment such as Glucommander, trach to vents, BIPAPs, high flows, salters, art lines, and bedside cardiac monitors.
- Facilitate rapid sequence intubation and manage patients on sedation and ETTs.
- Manage low dose pressors if ICU overflow is needed.
- Work with a nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:4 in a 16-bed unit with an average daily census of 16.
- Utilize Epic, Pyxis, and SBAR systems.
- Wear navy blue scrubs.
- Work every other weekend and be available to work major holidays as specified.
- Float to Cardiac Telemetry Unit and Med Surg Pulmonary unit if needed; ICU floating is possible with experience.
- Complete an orientation of 13 hours.
**Additional Information:**
- Full compliance required for timely start; delays could push back the start by two weeks due to the bi-weekly orientation schedule.
- Compliance document deadline is the Tuesday before the start date.
- References from two managers or higher positions are preferred at the time of application.
- Required Time Off (RTO) is limited to a maximum of 7 days. Weekend and holiday work expectations as outlined in job requirements.
- Local candidates welcome; same base rate applies.
- Previous travelers are welcome to return after completing one successful assignment elsewhere.