Job Description & Requirements
Intensive Care Nurse - ICU Nurse
31 bed unit, 2:1 ratio
Age Groups of Patients: Adolescent, Adult, and Geriatric
Top 10 Diagnosis/Procedures: Trauma, Ischemic/ Hemorrhagic Stroke, Sepsis, Acute MI, Cardiogenic Shock, Post open heart, Pneumonia, Complicated DKA, Post op patient requiring hemodynamic monitoring.
Any special procedure done on the unit? Line insertion (central line & artline), bronch, tracheostomy, external ventric drain, lumbar puncture, PICC line, cardioversion, EGDS.
Common Equipment: Philipps bedside monitor, CRRT Prisma, IABP Datascope, Rapid Transfusor
Titrate Vasoactive Drips: Levo, Dopamine, Neo, Epi, Esmolol, Diprivan, Precedex, Cardizem, Amiodarone
Floating required within scope as needed