Registered Nurse, ICU Night PT

City of Hope•Goodyear, AZ

About The Position

City of Hope is hiring a Registered Nurse to provide assessment, treatment, care, and education for patients in the ICU, with care for medical-surgical and telemetry patients as necessary. The role collaborates with physicians to evaluate patient readiness for a change in level of care and includes caring for patients with complex needs, including hemodynamic compromise and mechanical ventilation. The position is a night-shift, part-time role; an 18% night-shift differential applies for a full 12-hour shift. The nurse interprets and operates cardiac and other invasive and noninvasive monitoring equipment, recognizes normal and abnormal rhythms and trends, and takes appropriate action. Responsibilities also include complex IV therapy, use of less invasive life-supporting modalities, management of lines and tubes, ostomy care, and monitoring patients using PCA and epidural catheters. The role requires basic knowledge of chemotherapeutic and immunotherapeutic agents.

Requirements

At least 1 year of experience in ICU/inpatient nursing.
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; employees whose current certification does not meet the guidelines must complete an onsite initial BLS course within 30 days of hire and renew certification every two years.
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification; employees must obtain American Heart Association ACLS certification within 30 days of hire and renew it every two years. Employees may not independently provide ACLS for patients until they obtain the AHA ACLS card.
Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Fundamentals of Chemotherapy Immunotherapy Administration Card within 6 months of hire, renewed every two years.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with physicians to evaluate patient readiness for a change in level of care.
Assess, treat, care for, and educate patients.
Care for ICU, medical-surgical, and telemetry patients as necessary.
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-supporting 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 an ostomy, ileostomy, or urostomy.
Care for, assess, and monitor patients with Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) and epidural catheters.
Demonstrate basic knowledge of chemotherapeutic and immunotherapeutic agents.