ICU Nurse
Salem, Massachusetts
RN
Posted Aug 13 · Not open to new grads
- Shift
- 12-hour rotating
- Hours a week
- 36
- Unit
- MICU
- Contract
- 13 weeks
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 12-hour rotating · 3 a week · 36 hours
- Weekends
- Every other weekend
- Nurse to patient
- 1:1–1:5
- Term
- 13 weeks · Per Diem
- On the floor
- Floating required
- Practice
- Epic charting
stated in this posting
More role details
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
- Experience
- 2+ years
Pay
- Against the board
- Overtime
- $60/hr
The median for nursing in Massachusetts is $40/hr, across 426 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
*Who we are:*
Klap6 is a US based full-service healthcare staffing company specializing in providing contract, temp-to-perm, travel, per diem, and direct hire personnel across a wide spectrum of professionals that include Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistant, Registered Nurses, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Tech, EMT, Paramedics, Certified Nurse Assistants, Licensed Vocational/Practical Nurses, Medical Assistant, Admin Staff, and others.
*Job Details:*
*Job Title: *Registered Nurse ICU
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*Location:* Salem , MA
*Shift Available* – Days/Eves/Nights & EOW - 36hrs (Floating Required)
*Pay Rate : *$60 - $65 /Hr on W2 All Inclusive
*Job Type :* Contract
*Duration: *13 Weeks Contract with possible extension.
*Start Date:* Immediate Preferred / 1-2 weeks from offer Confirmation
*Parking : *FREE on-site Parking
*Key
Skills
*
- *2yrs. of continuous MICU experience required *
- *Must be able to read TELE STRIP *
*Job Description:*
- *Unit Name:* Level III Trauma Center. Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with Med Surg Floating required.
- *Brief Unit Description:* 20-bed (MICU) Medical/Surgical ICU. We care for a wide range of adult patients with diagnosis such as Substance Abuse/Overdose, severe Psychiatric conditions, DKA, Sepsis, GI bleed, Respiratory Failure, Cardiac Arrest, Renal Failure, and Cardiogenic Shock. Attendings and Residents are present in the ICU 24 hours/day. Salem Hospital is a 400+ bed complex community facility that has 220 Med Surg beds plus the ICU, Maternity, etc.
- *Years of Experience Required:* 2+ years of Adult ICU experience required. 2+ years of continuous work experience in one location, preferably a MICU.
- *Floating Required:* Yes, (mostly Medical/Surgical Units, could be up to 4 or 5 patients). Telemetry competency required.
- *Rotating Shifts Required:* All Day positions are “Day Rotate.” Day rotators may be rotated between (7a-7p, 11a-11p or 7p-7a) shifts when needed. Night shift does rotate.
- *RN to Patient Ratio:* 1:2 or 1:1 with high acuity; 1:4 or 1:5 when Floated to other Med/Surg areas.
- *Patient Population:* All.
- *Bed Count:* 20 beds.
- *EMR (Charting System):* EPIC.
- *Certifications Required:* Active Massachusetts RN License. AHA BLS & ACLS.
Pay: $60.00 - $65.00 per hour Work Location: In person
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Requirements
- RN
- MA RN License
Benefits
- Free parking
Place
- City
- Salem, Massachusetts
- Rent against this pay
- 20% of monthly gross
- Local household income
- $85,153/yr
- State price level
- 6% above the national average
$1,836 median rent against $9,360 a month at $60/hr for 36 hours a week, before tax.
all local households, not nurse pay
Massachusetts index 105.8, where 100 is the national average.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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About the employer
You would come in on a Klap6 contract to the MICU at Salem Hospital in Salem, Massachusetts. The unit is a 20-bed MICU inside a 400+ bed community hospital that also carries Level III trauma work, with attendings and residents…
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ICU / Critical Care is a specialty you move into. The classic route: base year, then transfer in.
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