Registered Nurse
Current
Provide specialized multisystem nursing care in a 13 bed level 2 ICU involving experience as Team Leader with main focus on patient populations with majority neurologic disorders and trauma requiring neuro/general/orthopedic surgery, some oncology and medical surgical. Intensive head to toe assessments with close neurological monitoring, critical knowledge of clinical decline in patient status, critical thinking, medication administration, family and patient ongoing education and involvement of care, advocating for patients and families, basic nursing knowledge such as oxygen administration/weaning (NP, mask, rebreather, inhalation), foley catheter insertion, naso/oral gastic tube insertion, skin/wound care management, early mobilization, communication with multidisplinary team members, charting by exception and advanced nursing skills with yearly certification such as IV insertion, arterial/central lines, ECG interpretation and monitoring, external ventricular drain use and monitoring, ACLS/cardiac drug administration, pain medication administration (PCA, epidural, neuromuscular blocks), invasive and non-invasive ventilation as well as practice and obtain skills required according to CNO and RNAO best standards of practice.