Travel Nurse RN - Intensive Care Unit (ICU) / Critical Care - $2,300 to $2,350 per week in Los Angeles, CA

Registered Nurse

Pay Information

$2,300 to $2,350 per week

Shift Details

Nights - 3 x 12 hours

About the Position

 

IV therapy

Arterial line management Blood Product Administration Central line care/management PICC line management Starting and maintaining IVs

Respiratory/Thoracic

Assist with Chest Tube Insertion/Removal* Assist with management of BiPAP* Assist with management of CPAP* Care of Ventilated Patient High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)* Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs) Suctioning (ETT, NT)

Genitourinary/Renal

Chronic/Acute Renal failure*

Medications

Continuous IV sedation Procedural Sedation Administration/Monitoring Titrate Cardiac drips Titrate Vasoactive drips

Neurological

CVA/Acute Stroke management* External ventricular drain (EVD)* ICP monitoring* Post Neurosurgery management* Spinal cord injury* Traumatic Brain injury*

Gastrointestinal

GI surgery*

Professional Topics and Skills

Infection Prevention* Isolation Precautions/ Use of PPE* Phlebotomy* Surgical Wounds with drains/Wound Vac*

Cardiac Monitoring and Emergency response

Interpretation of dysrhythmias Management of dysrhythmias* Management of patient with multisystem organ dysfunction/failure*

Cardiovascular

Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump* Post Cardiac Surgery (directly from the OR)* Post Cardiac Surgery (Not directly from the OR)* Pre/Post Cardiac Cath/intervention* Pulmonary Artery Line/Swan Ganz monitoring* Sheath Removal* Transcatheter Aortic Valve implantation/Replacement (TAVI/TAVR)*

Endocrine/Metabolic

IV insulin protocols

Work Settings

Neuro Intensive Care Unit* Surgical Intensive Care Unit*