Acute Care, Healthcare, Heparin, Hospital, Medical Record System, Nursing, Registered Nurse (RN), Titration, Vasopressin
Job description:Registered Nurse (RN) –LTACH/Stepdown Acuity
Shift: Nights Available
Schedule: 12-Hour Shifts | 36 Hours/Week
Rotation: Every Other Weekend Required13 week assignment - highly likely to renewPay Rate: $52/hour
Locals & Travelers Accepted(Contact for traveler stipend package details.)
- 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.
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