Registered Nurse (RN) - ICU

Prime Healthcare•National City, CA

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) in the ICU delivers safe patient care using the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The RN provides direct patient care within their scope of practice and directs and guides patient and family teaching and the activities of other nursing personnel while maintaining ICU standards of care. The RN is directly responsible and accountable for care provided to assigned patients. They communicate with physicians about changes in patients’ clinical conditions, including hemodynamic monitoring, diagnostic study results, abnormal results, and symptoms. The RN responds quickly and accurately to changes in patient condition or response to treatment and maintains patient privacy and confidentiality.

Requirements

Current and valid state RN license.
Current BLS certificate upon hire and maintained thereafter.
Basic Arrhythmia Interpretation within 30 days of hire.
Current ACLS certificate within 30 days of hire and maintained thereafter.
Minimum of one year as a staff RN in an acute care hospital.

Nice To Haves

Completion of a Critical Care Course.
Critical Care RN (CCRN) certification.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
Critical care experience.

Responsibilities

Deliver safe patient care using assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Provide direct patient care within the scope of practice.
Direct and guide patient and family teaching and the activities of other nursing personnel.
Maintain standards of care in the ICU.
Remain accountable for the care provided to assigned patients.
Communicate changes in patients’ clinical conditions to physicians, including hemodynamic monitoring, diagnostic study results, abnormal results, and symptoms.
Respond quickly and accurately to changes in patient condition or response to treatment.
Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality.