Travel Nurse RN - ICU/Critical Care in Salt Lake City, UT

Company: Cynet Health
Location: Salt Lake City
Posted on: September 29, 2024

Job Description:

Job Title: Registered Nurse (RN) Job Specialty: Float Pool ICU CCU Job Duration: 13 weeks Shift: 12-hour day shift, 3x12 Hr Guaranteed Hours: 36 hours per week Experience: One year of experience preferred License: State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) Certifications: - American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) - Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) - NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Certification - Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) (Required for specific locations) Must-Have: - Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty - Floating may be required within designated zones Job Description: - Assume responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with the healthcare team, and the patient/family to address physical, emotional, and spiritual needs - Promote optimal health, well-being, and safety of patients using the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards and guidelines - Demonstrate personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values - Assess patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interviews, and review of medical records - Evaluate patient responses and intervene to ensure optimal outcomes - Develop and implement patient care plans in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team - Demonstrate competency in therapeutic and diagnostic interventions such as IVs, wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collection - Advocate and collaborate to protect the health, safety, and rights of each patient - Provide patient and family education, assessing learning readiness and effectiveness of teaching - Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in care, providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient's preferences, values, and needs - Deliver care with respect for cultural differences and the diversity of human experience - Delegate tasks to non-RN personnel in accordance with nursing board and hospital policy - Use time, personnel, equipment, and supplies effectively for high-quality, cost-effective patient care - Serve as a professional role model, demonstrating ethical, legal, and professional nursing processes - Manage resources and patient flow by matching nursing competencies with individual patient and unit needs - Follow standards of care, hospital policies, and regulatory guidelines in practice - Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering communication, respect, and shared decision-making - Precept and mentor new staff or nursing students as needed - Seek ongoing learning opportunities and continue education for skills and competence maintenance - Maintain professional records that provide evidence of competency and lifelong learning - Evaluate personal integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional standards and guidelines; take action to achieve evaluation goals - Demonstrate a commitment to the organization through participation at hospital and unit-based meetings - Understand the value of measurement and the importance of continuous quality improvement data; use quality measures to improve performance and accountability - Participate in unit-based quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research activities - Use healthcare research findings and evidence to expand clinical knowledge and enhance role performance

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