Travel Nurse RN - ICU/Critical Care in Westminster, CO

**Job Title:** Registered Nurse (RN)
**Job Specialty:** Float Pool ICU/CCU
**Job Duration:** 13 weeks
**Shift:** 12-hour night shift (3x12 hours per week)
**Guaranteed Hours:** 36 hours per week
**Experience:** One year experience preferred; Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty
**License:** State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) - Required
**Certifications:**
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) - Required
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) - Required
- NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Certification - Required
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - Required for certain locations
**Must-Have:** EPIC proficiency, ICU patient care
**Job Description:**
- Assume responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with both the healthcare team and the patient/family to identify and meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient.
- Promote the optimal health, well-being, and safety of the patient through the use of the nursing process and in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act.
- Demonstrate personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.
- Assess patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records, and clinical data.
- Evaluate patients' responses and intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
- Develop and implement patient plans of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
- Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic/diagnostic interventions, including but not limited to IVs, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
- Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health, safety, and rights of each patient.
- Provide patient/family education through assessment of patient/family learning readiness, needs, and ability. Provide teaching and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching.
- Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient's preferences, values, and needs.
- Provide relationship-based care in which the nurse strives to understand what is most important to the individual and actively engage them in all aspects of care. This care will be delivered with respect for cultural differences and the diversity of human experience.
- Delegate to non-RN personnel in accordance with State Board of Nursing and hospital policy.
- Effectively use time, personnel, equipment, and supplies to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
- Act as a professional role model for all staff demonstrating ethical/legal/professional nursing processes.
- Manage resources and patient flow through matching nursing competencies with individualized patients' and unit needs.
- Use standards of care, hospital policies/procedures, and regulatory guidelines to guide practice.
- Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
- Precept/mentor new staff or nursing students as needed.
- Seek out learning opportunities and continue education to maintain skills and competence in clinical practice or role performance.
- Maintain professional records that provide evidence of competency and lifelong learning.
- Evaluate one's own integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations. Take action to achieve goals identified during the evaluation process.
- Demonstrate a commitment to the organization through ongoing participation in hospital and unit-based meetings.
- Verbalize an understanding of the value of measurement and the importance of continuous quality improvement data. Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes, patient experiences, and safe delivery of care.
- Participate in unit-based quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research activities.
- Use current healthcare research findings and other evidence to expand clinical knowledge, enhance role performance, and increase knowledge of professional issues.
**Schedule Notes:** May require floating to different locations within a specific range and performing duties outside the original assignment in accordance with policy.