Registered Nurse - ICU job in Lexington, KY

Company: Gifted Healthcare
Location: Lexington
Posted on: November 20, 2020

Job Description:

ICU/ Critical Care/ Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse (RN) Travel Job
As an ICU/CCU RN, you will have the privilege of providing direct nursing care to the patients we serve.
Critical Care/ICU/ CCU RN Responsibilities:

• Critical Care Registered Nurses must be proficient in a wide variety of high-level nursing skills. Exceptional Critical Care RNs have strong interpersonal communication, leadership, and critical thinking
  
• Assessing a patient's condition and planning and implementing patient care plans
  
• Assisting physicians in performing procedures
  
• Observing and recording vital signs
  
• Evaluating and ordering diagnostic tests
  
• Monitor the patients well-being, both emotional and physical
  
• Collaborates with members of the critical care team
  
• Administers intravenous fluids and medications
  
• Responds to life threatening situations using nursing standards and protocols for treatment
  
• Treats wounds and provides advanced life support
  
• Ensured ventilators, monitors, and other types of medical equipment static function properly
  
• Acts as patient advocate
  
• Provides education and support to patient families
  
• The Critical Care RN performs other position related duties as assigned

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