Registered Nurse - IMC

• Renown Health Position Template Facility Name: Renown Regional Job Code: 1021015 Location Address: 1155 Mill St Reno, NV 89502 Position Information: Update 7/30: increase to - Switched to Day shift
• Role: Registered Nurse (RN)
• Facility Department/Cost Center: Intermediate Care Unit - 200155

• 3x12, DAYS
• Weekly Guaranteed Hours: 36
• Call

• None
• Licenses: NV RN license required prior to start
• Required

BLS, ACLS, NIHSS • Experience Required: Minimum 2 years of IMC/Stepdown experience required. Medical/Neuro ICU experience preferred. Must have experience with vasopressors, titratable drips, art lines, neuro-stepdown patients, procedural sedation, thrombolytics, and trach management.

IMCU travelers are required to pass an ECG/Telemetry exam, which includes reading/interpreting rhythm strips. Failure of the telemetry exam will result in contract termination. Prior travel experience of one 13 week assignment required.

Unit Description: The IMCU is comprised of 18 beds and focuses on individuals who are experiencing severe, but usually non-life threatening issues requiring moderately complex assessments, moderately intensive therapies and interventions, and moderate levels of nursing vigilance. These patients encompass all types of general medical disease process, including post ischemic/hemorrhagic stroke, sepsis, cardiac, and respiratory.

Our goal is the provision of clinical excellence and exceptional customer service in a collaborative multidisciplinary, patient-centered environment. Additional Comments: Travelers may be required to float to the needs of the organization up to their competency level. May be required to work major holidays and are required to pick up one additional shift during each schedule period (4-weeks).

Renown has the right to call off, without penalty, 48 hours for low census per 13-week contract. This may be full or partial shifts. Schedule varies based upon department needs.

Schedule can include weekends and holidays. Holiday

• Travelers must be available to work 2 of the 3 major holidays. Eve + Day = 1 Holiday. Hospital Information: Extremely busy and fast paced environment serving a 500-mile radius. Level II Trauma Center, Stroke accreditation, 800 in-patient bed hospital. The volume and pace required to work here are that of a Level I trauma center. Hiring Profile: Position Purpose This position provides optimal patient care utilizing knowledge and skills within the context of the nursing process. The incumbent is accountable for individualized patient outcomes over an entire episode of care. The incumbent provides comprehensive nursing services to adolescent, adult and geriatric patients, including their families/caregivers. Nature and Scope This position is challenged to diagnose and treat human responses to health problems. The incumbent must provide optimal patient/resident care through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of adolescent, adult, and geriatric residents and families. Demonstrates the cognitive and psychosocial needs specific to the population to be served and meets standards of quality as measured by the unit/department age specific competency standards. This position requires a scientific knowledge base and ongoing growth and learning. When possible the family or those significant to the family are considered as part of the assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation efforts of the Registered Nurse (RN). The RN coordinates care between other professionals as needed. Intensive continuous mental effort is required to provide optimal safe patient care and the same mental effort is required when interacting with internal and external contacts, exercising judgments and making decisions. This position does provide patient care.Comments www.renown.org The Regions Only Level II Trauma Center in Reno, NV At Renown Regional Medical Center, youll find the most advanced care in the region. Our specialists treat complex tumors, stop heart attacks before they do serious damage and preform life-saving surgeries with patients back on their feet in no time. Trauma Center, 2 ERs Renown Regional Medical Center is the only trauma center between Sacramento and Salt Lake City, treating over 80,000 ER and trauma patients a year. We are also home to the regions only childrens hospital, a leading robotic surgery institute, groundbreaking brain and nerve care, and comprehensive heart and cancer services. At the Renown Regional Medical Center, you can reap the benefits of a full range of leading-edge services and procedures performed by expert medical professionals. Our facilities and technologies are state-of-the-art. Heres a quick rundown of procedures and technologies - put to use to improve the health and well-being in our community.
• We instituted the first and only accredited heart failure center in northern Nevada
• We founded northern Nevadas first and only Institute for Neurosciences
• We brought the first low-dose CT imaging to the region
• We brought the Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System to northern Nevada
• We implemented the first dedicated PET/CT scanner, Biplane Angiography and the newest 3T MRI technologies to the region