Critical Care Registered Nurse - RN LTAC Hospital

10 days ago

Job Description

RNJob description:Registered Nurses (RN) needed in Richmond, VA for a Critical Rehab Hospital (LTACH)!

Our patients are high acuity have to have had at least 3 night stay in the ICU to qualify for our hospital

We are not a Rehab facility. We prepare patients for Rehab, Skilled Nursing, Home, or assist in Palliative Care.
Our Patients are complex. Below are some conditions we treat (keep in mind, our patients may have more than one of these conditions):
- Strokes, TBI, Spinal Cord injuries, Trauma, Resp Failure, Cardiac Failure, Surgical Complications, non-healing wounds, cardiogenic shock, bowel obstructions, etc…
- The patients have had extended hospital stays prior to coming to us
- The average stay in our hospital is 4 –6 weeks
Acuity:
- Highest acuity would be those patients on vents with vasoactive drips that we are titrating up.
- Lowest acuity would be a patient getting 6-8 weeks of IV antibiotics.
- Critical Drips include Vasopressin, Levophed, Dopamine and some sedations as we titrate the drip UP.
- Once we start titrating the drip down or we are not titrating at the time, the drip is no longer critical.
- Drips like Amiodarone, Heparin, NonTitrated Cardizem, and such are not considered critical drips
Nurse Patient Ratios
- Typical load is 4-5: 1 (you will have patients w/trachs and some on stable vents)
- High acuity patients will result in a 2-3: 1
EHR
- We are on EPIC
- Our nurses are expected to draw their own labs
- We use Omnicell for Med dispense.
Orientation
- You will only get one 12 hours shift of orientation
- After that one shift of orientation, you are expected to take your own team of patients.

Location	Richmond, VA
Salary	$56

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