Registered Nurse – ICU job in Ketchikan, AK

  • Profession:

    Registered Nurse

  • Specialty:

    ICU

  • Location:

    Ketchikan, AK

  • Start date:

    2022-09-05

  • Job Type:

    Travel Contract

  • Job ID:

    411092

ICU/ Critical Care/ Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse (RN) Travel Job

As an ICU/CCU RN, you will have the privilege of providing direct nursing care to the patients we serve.

Critical Care/ICU/ CCU RN Responsibilities:

  • Critical Care Registered Nurses must be proficient in a wide variety of high-level nursing skills. Exceptional Critical Care RNs have strong interpersonal communication, leadership, and critical thinking
  • Assessing a patient’s condition and planning and implementing patient care plans
  • Assisting physicians in performing procedures
  • Observing and recording vital signs
  • Evaluating and ordering diagnostic tests
  • Monitor the patients well-being, both emotional and physical
  • Collaborates with members of the critical care team
  • Administers intravenous fluids and medications
  • Responds to life threatening situations using nursing standards and protocols for treatment
  • Treats wounds and provides advanced life support
  • Ensured ventilators, monitors, and other types of medical equipment static function properly
  • Acts as patient advocate
  • Provides education and support to patient families
  • The Critical Care RN performs other position related duties as assigned

BENEFITS OF BEING GIFTED!

  • Refer a Registered Nurse – You and your referral both get $500 with GIFTED’s Refer an RN Friend Program
  • Flexible scheduling
  • Premium pay
  • Same Day or Weekly Pay
  • Ability to work in premier facilities
  • Access to Chief Nursing Officer 24-7
  • Access to Social Worker 24-7
  • Group Health insurance benefits:
    • Medical Plan
    • Dental Plan
    • Vision Plan
    • Short and Long Term Disability
    • AD&D Insurance

Benefits of being a GIFTED TRAVEL NURSE

  • Private housing and housing allowance
  • Personal Career Coach
  • Extremely competitive personalized pay package

FACILITY DETAILS

This hospital is part of a larger healthcare system that is focused on providing a patient-centered healing environment with a strong focus on patient safety and clinical outcomes. It is a 25-bed, critical access and long-term care facility, providing inpatient, outpatient, home health services and a 29-bed long term care facility. As one of the more self-reliant small rural hospitals, it offers a multitude of medical services including an accredited cancer care program.

Whether you’re interested in Native Alaskan culture, the early pioneers who settled Southeast Alaska, local artists, shopping, fishing, or the great outdoors, you can find it all in Ketchikan, AK. The downtown area is easily walkable with historic buildings and shops featuring the work of local carvers, weavers, jewelry designers, painters, sculptors, photographers, writers, and more. Ketchikan is the “Salmon Capital of the World” and offers major attractions to check out in the area such as the Misty Fiords Nation Monument or the Tongass National Forest.

ABOUT GIFTED HEALTHCARE

GIFTED Healthcare is a company that believes in the power of one person to make a difference in patient care. Join the ranks of our rapidly growing team of healthcare professionals, and become that difference!

Do you remember why you became a Registered Nurse at GIFTED? We do!