Direct Care Registered Nurse

E-ICU is seeking an experienced full time ICU Nurse for Night Shift 7p
-7a to join the team at our Norfolk location.

Location:

Sentara Independence
800 Independence Blvd.
Virginia Beach, VA 23455

This position is currently located at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital but will be moving in late June to Sentara Independence.

Our Electronic Intensive Care Unit (eICU) is a form of telemedicine that uses state-of-the-art technology to provide an additional layer of critical care service. The goal of the E-ICU (tele-ICU) is to reduce mortality, length of stay and prevent complications by providing an additional layer of monitoring for the patients. This is accomplished by utilizing advanced telecommunications technology. The Sentara eICU staff collaborates with the bedside ICU team to proactively intervene to carry out the Sentara Commitments to Always Work Together as a Team to Provide Our Patients Quality Healthcare and Always Keep You Safe.

If you enjoy ICU level of care, have excellent critical thinking skills, want to be a part of a collaborative team, understand technology & navigating through systems, and have 3+ years of critical care nursing experience then this may be an opportunity to join the e-ICU team.

e-ICU RN provides remote nursing care acting as an advocate, guide, and resource for the bedside ICU RN. Collaborates with the eMD to provide telemedicine care to a diverse population of critically ill adults across multiple ICUs at various Sentara hospitals. The eMDs and eRNs follow patients in the Monitored Census utilizing Epic Patient Monitoring (EPM). Video conferencing via the eICU cameras allows direct communication with the patients, bedside team, other members of the healthcare team and patients’ families at the patient’s bedside.

The eRNs maintain daily logs with their monitoring assignments and APACHE assignments.

The Registered Nursing (RN) is responsible to perform a competent level of nursing care as demonstrated by the critical thinking model known as the nursing process. The standards of practice (assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, coordination of care, teaching and health promotion, and evaluation) along with the standards of professional performance (ethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice/nursing research, quality, evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health) encompass the actions and foundation of professional nursing.

The RN possesses clinical knowledge and skills to meet standards as required by specific clinical areas.

Education:

• Associate’s Degree or Diploma in Registered Nursing (required)
• Bachelor of Science Nursing - BSN or MSN (Preferred)

Certification/Licensure:

• Virginia RN License Virginia or Compact/Multi-State Eligible.
• CCRN preferred
• All Direct Care RNs required to have BLS within 90 days of hire.

Experience:

• Three-plus years of recent ICU bedside preferred