Travel Nurse RN - CVICU

Certification Details

• BLS - Basic Life Support
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support
• State License 1 Verification
• NURSYS Verification (RN, LPN/LVN, AP)
• NIH Stroke Certification

• UNIT DETAILS: PAH's CVICU is a 42 bed ICU specializing in open heart surgery averaging 6-8 bypass pump surgical cases per day as well as post surgical heart transplants and LVAD.
• CVICU contract nurse requires immediate post open heart surgical admission experience as well as experience with Swan Ganz catheters, utilizing the manual thermodilution syringe to calculate the Cardiac Index & epicardial/transvenous pacing wire experience.
• Diagnosis include but not limited to - Advanced Heart Failure, Multi vessel Disease, Coronary Artery Disease, Pulmonary Hypertension & Valvular Heart Disease.
• Common bedside procedures include assisting with the care of patient during bronchoscopies, intubations, tracheostomies, central line insertions, arterial line and swan ganz catheter line insertions.

• Minimum Experience:
  
  2 years (prior to travel) - Unit accepts first time travelers.

• WEEKEND:
  Every Other
• CALL:
  None
• FLOATING:
  Within facility/scope of practice as needed
• HOLIDAYS:
  If one major holiday falls in his/her assignment period, the traveler is expected to work it. If two major holidays fall in his/her assignment period, the traveler is expected to work both of the holidays. If three major holidays fall in his/her assignment period, the traveler is expected to work two of the holidays.

• Unit accepts first time travelers.

• Compliance: FULL compliance required to start on time; if not compliant in time the push back is 2 weeks due to bi-weekly orientation schedule.
• Locals accepted - same rate