Registered Nurse (RN) - ICU

Registered Nurse (RN) - ICU (Nason Medical Center)
Job Type: Full Time | 3x12 Nights (7p-7a) + rotating weekends/holidays.

Up to $20,000 bonus for eligible candidates

Your experience matters

Conemaugh Nason Medical Center is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As a Registered Nurse (RN) joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier ®. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

More about our team

As an ICU Registered Nurse, you will have the responsibility, authority, and accountability for coordinating and directing care for critically ill patients. In this role, you will utilize advanced clinical judgment to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate comprehensive nursing care.

Key responsibilities include performing detailed patient assessments, administering medications, monitoring life-support and other advanced equipment, delivering both routine and complex treatments, and providing emergency interventions, including resuscitation when needed.

Our ICU nurses are highly skilled professionals equipped with the experience and expertise to deliver life-sustaining treatment and critical care to patients across the lifespan in a fast-paced, high-acuity environment.

How you’ll contribute

A Registered Nurse (RN) who excels in this role:

• Provides primary nursing care to all patients assigned, functioning within a team, throughout the length of stay in the department.

• Accurately identifies arrhythmias and provides intervention according to established procedures. Anticipates arrhythmias and complications based on knowledge of pathophysiology takes appropriate actions as needed and communicates information to physicians in a timely manner.

• Demonstrates an ability to start IV's, administer medications and IV fluids, assess patient's response and titrate dosages as per physician order.

• Demonstrates an ability to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the ICU, functions as code nurse when applicable.

• Manages critically ill patients during transfer to other departments or health care facilities. Give appropriate report to provide continuity of care.

• Regularly tests monitoring equipment/alarm systems to ensure proper functioning when needed.

• Demonstrates a complete knowledge of the location, care and operation of all ICU equipment.

• Demonstrates appropriate safety precautions e.g. with invasive line, during defibrillation, etc.) and utilizes infection control practices to minimize incidence of nosocomial infections.

• Participates in special procedures and examinations performed by the physician, prepares the patient and provides emotional support, as required.

• Consistently assesses the nursing care provided in the critical care areas and identifies any problems or needs for improvement.

• Always assesses the patient's condition utilizing the nursing process and professional judgment in individualizing nursing care.

• Always documents observations and interventions, including medication and treatment therapies.

• Always assesses the patients immediate needs and priorities patient care accordingly upon arrival to the ICU, obtains pertinent patient history.

• Notify family/S.O. of patient’s progress and includes them in plan of care, whether admitted or discharged if applicable, i.e. minors or POA’s.

• Participates in bedside change of shift report.

• Ensures that the standards of the critical care nursing practice are maintained.

• Maintain assessment, knowledge and intuition skills when caring for patients.

• Continuously assesses and improves the performance of care and service provided.

• Orients and mentors new members of the team in the department.

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