Travel Nurse (RN) - Critical Care Float Pool

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Additional Details:

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Please expect someone with a 501 (Arkansas) area code or from the facility to reach out to interview you for this position!

Guaranteed hours: 48

Will float within scope and below:

Areas of float need: MSICU: 14 beds; CVICU: 10 (no specific CVICU experience needed, just added for bed count visibility); PCU: 40 beds; 2R PCU Obs: 18 Beds OBS South when open for overflow can increase to 27 total beds

CCU: 30 beds; Medical: 89 beds; Surgical: 55 beds; Flex Unit: 9 beds (consists of PCU and MS patients); Inpatient Rehab: 47 beds on two floors; ER holding unit (Patients waiting on a bed); Any COVID overflow

Minimum experience: ICU: 1 year ICU experience; PCU: 1.5 years PCU experience; PCU ER holds: 1 year with strong PCU experience and great references; MS: 1 year

Could float for partial shifts.

Patient Ratios: ICU 1:2 based on acuity; PCU and CCU 1:4 depending on acuity or if patient discharging; Medical and Surgical 1:5; If PCU floated to MS- will have a 1:5 ratio; Rehab: 1:8 team model (RN, LPN, Tech)

Patient Types the Travelers are Expected to Care For: ICU: 14 beds

Respiratory Failure, GI Bleeds, DKA, Sepsis, Complicated Post-operative Patients, CVA’s, Flap surgeries, Post-Arrest, ETOH, IVDA; Higher Level Therapies: Rotoprone, Manual Prone, Hypothermia Protocol, CRRT, TPA, Flap Surgeries (will not take these patients)

No craniotomies, major traumas, or major cardiothoracic; PCU: 40 beds: 2R Obs 18 beds; Respiratory compromise, Sepsis, renal failure, bleeding disorders, general medical/surgical patients, CHF, COPD, Pneumonia, General, ortho cases

Med-Surg: Medical: 89 beds Surgical: 55 beds; MS Oncology: Oncology: Neutropenic, post-op; Psych; General Medical Surgical: post-op, COPD, CHF, Sepsis, DVT, AKI, Dialysis, COVID; COVID is common on this floor.

MS Ortho: Total joints, post-surgical patients, general medical overflow; MS Palliative: General Medical: pneumonia, sepsis, CHF, COPD, AKI, DVT, PE, occasionally surgical, COVID

Rehab: 47 beds on two floors; Neuro: Stroke, Spinal Cord injury, TBI, Multi-Trauma, Post Covid, Post ICU; Vents, Traches are on the unit; Respiratory therapy works to give “just in time” training; Med-Surg level acuity type patients; ED Holding; ACLS Transport

Skills required: ICU: Cardiac rhythm interpretation, Vent management, invasive line management, ostomy, general drains, trachs; PCU: Cardiac rhythm interpretation, Chest tubes, lumbar drains, traches, IV med titration (Amiodarone, dopamine, dobutamine, insulin, heparin); Med-Surg: IVs, PCAs, Chest Tubes, drains, ostomies, IV ABX; All clinicians must also have good communication and patient teaching/education skills