Relocation Assistance available up to $15,000
Pay range: $47.44/hr - $71.23/hr
About the team:
- Highly desirable work environment that is positive, welcoming, and friendly
- Orientation is personalized to suit your individual needs and crafted to ensure you receive the training and support you need to be successful
- Supportive and collaborative environment, ensuring you always have a team by your side
- The team feels supported by Nursing Leadership, thanks to an open-door policy and leaders who pitch in and help on the floor when needed.
- Come join a team that says their favorite thing about the CCU is their co-workers and their team!
About the Department:
- The Intensive Care Unit is a 10-bed unit with a 1:2 nurse to patient ratio for most patients.
- For patients that require more support, such as those who have paralysis, are on continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), have a Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device (Impella) or intra-aortic balloon pump, we have a 1:1 nurse-to-patient ratio.
- In our unit, you'll broaden your nursing skills and experience a diverse range of cases, as we care for all types of ICU-level patients. This includes post-neurosurgical patients, those with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), post-cardiac arrest cases, sepsis, and patients with liver or kidney failure.
- Our patient demographic is highly mixed and diverse
The Registered Nurse for ICU/CCU ensures the delivery of quality nursing care for critically ill patients in accordance with age-related and individual needs, physician’s orders, hospital policy, standards of care and nursing practice. Responsible for assessing the needs of patients, planning nursing care to meet those needs, and ensuring that the plan of care is carried out and documented according to the principles defined in the nursing process. Participates in the development of critical care unit goals.
Main Responsibilities:
- Participates in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team using effective communication and conflict management skills.
- Uses a systematic process of assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation in delivery of care by collaborating with the patient, family and interdisciplinary team through care plans.
- Adapts care to accommodate unexpected changes in patient status. Communicates patient needs and changes in condition to physician, team members and/or family as necessary.
- Provides compassionate care for patients during challenging periods or transitions in life or lifecycles with respect and dignity.
