RN - Intensive Care Unit

Carle Health • Normal, IL

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About The Position

The RN - Intensive Care Unit provides nursing care to adult patients who require a higher level of care in an open ICU with 12 beds and a typical nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:2. The unit cares for patients over 18 with a range of needs and includes post-procedure patients. Nurses work with an interdisciplinary team to support patients and families and promote high-quality care and positive outcomes. Team resources include intensivists, dietary services, respiratory and therapy services, pharmacy, and other specialties as needed.

The role uses nursing skills such as assessment, IV care, drawing labs, managing drips and ventilators, preventing hospital-acquired conditions, and completing admissions, transfers, and discharges. Equipment used includes IV pumps, SCD machines, ventilators, balloon pumps, dialysis machines, bedside monitors, invasive monitoring equipment, and cardiac monitoring equipment.

Requirements

• More than one year of RN experience; ICU or intermediate-care experience is preferred.

Nice To Haves

• ICU or intermediate-care experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform responsibilities and duties required by the unit and scope of service.
• Implement procedures and theories related to the specific area of practice.
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date documentation of nursing care to support integration of information across the healthcare team.
• Complete an initial assessment upon patient admission and develop a plan of care in accordance with unit standards and patient and family needs.
• Implement the plan of care, nursing interventions, and patient care procedures, and modify the plan based on ongoing evaluation.
• Promote patient and employee safety by reporting or correcting safety hazards and incidents.
• Communicate directly and privately when necessary to resolve issues.
• Offer constructive feedback to support peers’ professional development and confer with colleagues to expand knowledge.
• Identify personal learning needs and take initiative to address them.
• Fulfill departmental competency requirements.
• Support communication with patients and families through meaningful hourly rounding, bedside reports, and whiteboards.
• Work with ventilated patients to support early mobility.
• Collaborate with the team to achieve the best outcomes.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package for team members and providers; details are available at careers.carlehealth.org/benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed