Job Description & Requirements
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care - ICU
Blocked Scheduling approved
Selling Points for unit: Rural sole community provider hospital. 5 Bed ICU, on site hospitalist/ER practitioner 24/7. Hemodynamic monitoring, cardiac/vasoactive gtts, vents.
Comments: Only 2 other nurses at night. Any higher level nursey get transferred to Wilson or BGH
Common Diagnosis/Treatment: Top 10 Diagnosis/Procedures: CHF, COPD, PNA, Sepsis, Complications of surgery, DKA, Medical Management of MI
# of Beds: 5
Nurse to Patient Ratio: 3 to 1 with NA assistance
Charting: EPIC
Scrub Color: Any
Areas of Float Support: possible float to MSG (infrequent)
Special Procedures: Chest tubes, central lines, thoracentesis, hemodynamic lines
Common Medications used on the unit? Amiodarone, Cardiizem, Nitro, Neosynepherine, Dopamine, Dobutamine, Epinepherine, IV Opiates/Sedatives (Precedex, Propofol), Ativan, Insulin gtts
Is Vasoactive Drip Titration Required? Yes
Medication Dispensing System Used? PYXIS