Registered Nurse - ICU

At Garden City Hospital, we pride ourselves on community involvement and commitment to preserving access to quality and compassionate healthcare. We are a state-of-the-art medical facility with over 300 licensed beds and a teaching hospital, offering medical education to students, residents and fellows from across the country. The residency and fellowship programs offer graduate medical education to more than 80 trainees in specialties. Garden City Hospital has an award-winning staff of over 350 of the area's best and brightest physicians from almost every specialty. Learn more at www.gch.org.

Responsibilities

The Registered Nurse is responsible for the delivery of safe patient care utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. Provides direct patient care within the scope of practice. The Registered Nurse also directs and guides patient/family teaching and activities of other nursing personnel while maintaining standards of care in the ICU.

The Registered Nurse is directly responsible and accountable for the care given to his/her assigned patients. He/She communicates with the physician about changes in the patient's clinical condition including hemodynamic monitoring, results of diagnostic studies and abnormal results and symptomatology. Is able to respond quickly and accurately to changes in condition and/or response to treatment.

Maintains patient privacy and confidentiality.

Qualifications

Education, experience, training

• Current and valid state RN License.

• Current BLS certificate upon hire and maintain current.

• Completion of Critical Care Course preferred.

• Basic Arrythmia Interpretation within 30 days of hire.

• Current ACLS certificate 30 days upon hire and maintain current.

• Minimum of one year as a staff RN in acute care hospital, critical care preferred.

• Critical Care RN (CCRN) Certification preferred.

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.

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