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ICU/ CCU RN - NIGHTS
The ICU/CCU RN manages the nursing care of critically ill patients in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization. The tasks and responsibilities include:
--Assesses plans and evaluates patient care needs.
--Carries out physician orders.
--Administers prescribed medications, changes dressings, cleans wounds, monitors vital signs.
--Provides respiratory and ventilator management and monitoring for patients.
--Serves as the primary coordinator of all disciplines for well coordinated patient care.
--Monitors, records and communicates patient condition utilizing computerized documentation systems.
--Instructs and educates patients and families.
--Assesses and coordinates patient's discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team.
--Provides age and culturally appropriate care.
--Orients and mentors new staff members.
--Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
Qualifications
--Current licensure as an RN.
--1 year of current nursing experience required.
--Current certification as a BLS Healthcare Provider and ACLS.
--Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing.
--Customer service abilities including effective listening skills.
--Critical thinking, decisive judgment, and the ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast paced environment.
--Ability to perform work that requires frequent standing, bending, reaching, squatting, kneeling, moving, lifting of patients and/or equipment up to 50 pounds.
Salary & Benefits
Competitive Salary and Benefits Program
Special Instructions
1 Year of Current Nursing Experience Required.
Company Overview
West Hills Hospital offers an array of advanced medical services. We are your community hospital, familiar to you and your family for more than four decades. Along with that, we have the capability and expertise to perform emergency open heart procedures, care for babies as small as 1 to 2 pounds, perform brain and spine surgery and provide many other services you might think are found only at a university hospital “over the hill.”
