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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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