Trauma Level: Facility Specific Job Notes: ### Job Requirements & Qualifications - **Years of Experience**: At least 1 year ICU experience required - **Travel Experience**: Required - **Charting System Experience**: Epic required - **Certifications**: ACLS, BLS, NIHSS, OCN - **Preferred Experience**: - Community Hospital - Trauma Level I - Trauma Level II ### Skills Required - Accessing/Managing Ports - Activated Clotting Time (ACT) - Acute Kidney Injury - Administration of chemotherapy - Arterial line management - Assist with Chest Tube Insertion/Removal - BiPAP/CPAP management - Blood Product Administration - Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) - Care of the patient on ECMO - Care of Ventilated Patient - Central line care/management - Central Venous Pressure Monitoring (CVP) - Chronic/Acute Renal failure - Continuous IV paralytics/Neuromuscular blockade - Continuous IV sedation - CVA/Acute Stroke management - CVVHD/CRRT - Emergency Medications - Epicardial Pacing Wire Care and Management - External ventricular drain (EVD) - Fibrinogen - Fresh tracheostomy - GI surgery - High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) - Hypothermia protocol/Arctic Sun - ICP monitoring - Infection Prevention - INR - Intake and Output monitoring - Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs) - Interpretation of dysrhythmias - Isolation Precautions/PPE - IV insulin protocols - Liver failure - Lumbar drains - Management of dysrhythmias - Management of patient with multisystem organ dysfunction/failure - Massive transfusion protocol - Medical Intensive Care Unit - Monitoring for abdominal compartment syndrome - Neuro Intensive Care Unit - Obtain 12 lead EKG/ECG - Phlebotomy - PICC line management - Post Craniotomy - Post Neurosurgery management - Pre/Post Cardiac Cath/intervention - Pre/Post Hemodialysis Management - Procedural Sedation Administration/Monitoring - PT/PTT - Pulmonary Artery Line/Swan Ganz monitoring - Pulmonary edema - Pulmonary embolism - Recognition of infection in immunosuppressed patients - Renal transplant - Respiratory failure - Sheath Removal - Shunts/Fistula Care - Starting and maintaining IVs - Suctioning (ETT, NT) - Surgical Intensive Care Unit - Titrate Cardiac drips - Titrate Vasoactive drips - TPN/Lipids - Trauma Intensive Care Unit - Traumatic Brain injury - Urine output assessment - Ventilator Management ### Licensure - **Valid State License**: Compact license must be in hand at submission ### References - **Required**: 2 References covering 1 year (6 months for CNAs) within the last 3 years - Can include Charge RNs/Lead ### Additional Requirements - **Requires specific amount of experience**: At least 1 year required - **Local radius**: 50 miles - **Local rule**: Accepted at lower BR ### Special Requirements - Must commit to working 3 of the 5 holidays (Thanksgiving, Xmas Eve, Xmas Day, NYE, NYD) - Travelers may be expected to float between sister facilities nearby your contracted facility - Travelers' refusal to float may result in termination of assignment and/or forfeiture of guaranteed hours ### Additional Unit Information - **Interdisciplinary Support**: IV Teams, Physical Therapy, Respiratory Services, Interpretation Services, Phlebotomy, Radiology, Social Services, Rapid Response Teams, Pharmacy, Transportation, Unit Secretary ### Education Modules - Modules are non-billable, factored in NBO hours, and completed pre-start and during orientation. We specialize in placing travel nurses, allied health professionals, physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners in both short-term and permanent roles across a wide range of specialties.