Registered Nurse, ICU Night PT

City of Hope•Goodyear, AZ

About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides assessment, treatment, care, and education to patients, caring for ICU, medical-surgical, and telemetry patients as needed. The role collaborates with physicians to evaluate patient readiness for a change in level of care. The position includes an 18% night-shift differential for a full 12-hour shift.

Requirements

At least 1 year of ICU/inpatient experience.
Associate Degree in Nursing or equivalent.
Arizona Registered Nurse License or a Registered Nurse License from a Compact State.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from an approved American Heart Association training site, American Safety & Health Institute, or Red Cross; certification is required upon hire, with 30 days to acquire an acceptable certification if the current one does not meet guidelines, and renewal every two years.
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification; employees have 30 days from hire to obtain American Heart Association ACLS certification, which must be renewed every two years. Independent ACLS care is not allowed until the AHA ACLS card is obtained.
Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Fundamentals of Chemotherapy Immunotherapy Administration Card within 6 months of hire, renewed every two years.

Responsibilities

Assess, treat, care for, and educate patients in the ICU, medical-surgical, and telemetry settings as needed.
Collaborate with physicians to evaluate patients’ readiness for a change in level of care.
Conduct risk assessment, prevention, and treatment of pressure injuries.
Interpret and operate cardiac and other invasive and noninvasive monitors; recognize normal and abnormal rhythms and trends, and institute appropriate interventions.
Care for patients with complex needs, including hemodynamic compromise and mechanical ventilation.
Initiate and maintain complex IV therapy, including thrombolytic administration, vasoactive medications, central IV catheters, dialysis catheters, and arterial lines.
Safely use less invasive life-support modalities, including BiPAP, ETCO2, arterial pressure-based CO/CI and SVO2 monitoring, and core-temperature monitors.
Care for patients with IV lines, arterial lines, central lines, ports, chest tubes, pleural catheters, tracheostomy tubes, and endotracheal tubes.
Maintain and care for patients with ostomies, including ileostomies and urostomies.
Care for, assess, and monitor patients with patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) and epidural catheters.
Demonstrate basic knowledge of chemotherapeutic and immunotherapeutic agents.