Critical Care Nurse - ICU Travel Position
Company: Mercy Medical Center
Location: Merced
Posted on: February 1, 2025
Job Description:
At Mercy Medical Center, we are seeking an experienced ICU nurse
for a travel contract in California. This position requires
certification in BLS, ACLS, and NIHSS, as well as two years of
full-time experience in a critical care setting.
**Job Details:**
- This travel contract offers a hospital in California, with a
schedule that includes 2 weekends per 4 weeks and holidays every
other major one.
- The right candidate will have a full patient load and be
comfortable with floating to other units, including tele and med
surg.
- The ICU has 20 beds, with a nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:2, and
a charge nurse who serves as a resource to the entire house.
**Unit Information:**
- **Unit:** ICU
- **# Beds:** 20
- **Ratios:** 1 to 2
- **Charge Nurse:** Each shift, serving as a resource to the
entire house
- **Nurse Aides:** No
- **Scrub Color:** Navy
- **Tele:** GE, nurses must read and interpret own
strips
- **Vents:** RT in house, manages
- **Floating:** Yes, to tele, med surg, and will take 4 or 5
patients; travelers are first to float
- **Floor specific orientation:** 2 shifts in ICU and 1 unit out
on the floor
- **Common diagnosis / Types of patients:** Sepsis, proficient in
managing DKA hyperglycemia, PN, COPD, PCI cardiac services (not
STEMI center yet), CVA, no neuro, ICU patients will recover from
surgery in the ICU, versed, Propofol, norepinephrine, GI
bleeds
- **Additional Notes:** Must be comfortable w/ ABCDE bundle,
vents
**Additional Details:**
- If Clinical Recommends, prescreen notes and resume are sent to
hospital for approval to offer, no 2nd interview
- These staff may be deployed to ED to care for boarded ICU
patients or will work in the ICU
- Please note: ICU floats to MS tele and tele floors
- Additional Questions: You will be floating out to the floors,
are you comfortable with this? You will take a full patient
load
Keywords: Mercy Medical Center, Merced , Critical Care Nurse - ICU Travel Position, Healthcare , Merced, California
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