REGISTERED NURSE FT

A-Team Solutions is seeking (3) ICU Registered Nurse for the full time , for the VA in Tucson, AZ. Day shift

Responsibilities: RNs assigned to Intensive Care Units, Post Anesthesia Care

Unit, Cardiovascular Lab, Emergency Room, Operating Room, or Gastrointestinal Lab

(GI) shall provide services in accordance with the policies of the VAHCS which shall

be provided by the Government upon assignment. Nurses shall have professional and legal

responsibility to the patient. Specific duties and responsibilities of these RNs include:

* Perform critical care nursing to Intensive Care Unit patients.

* Performs scrub and circulating duties in the Cardiovascular Lab and the

* Operating Room.

* Assist with the GI Lab procedures and demonstrate competency in monitoring

* patients undergoing conscious sedation.

* Obtain patient history and pertinent family history.

* Assess patient and plan appropriate nursing care.

* Document plan of care and care given in patient's medical record.

* Verify transcription of physician's orders, no verbal orders are to be accepted.

* Carry out prescribed physician's orders and document inpatient medical record.

* Communicate pertinent patient data to charge nurse and/or physician as

* appropriate.

* Re-assess patient's condition and revise plans of care based on identified nursing

* problem.

* Administer medications and Intravenous (IV) therapies.

* Possess knowledge of actions and usual dosages of most commonly used

* emergency drugs and their location on crash cart.

* Assess and document patient response to medication that have been

* administered.

* Be able to interpret cardiac rhythms and their implications.

* Reorganize and initiate appropriate measures in emergencies/therapies and

* surgical/diagnostic procedures that shall be accomplished.

* Instruct patient/family regarding prescribed medications/therapies

Qualifications:
A current license in at least one (1) state, territory, or commonwealth in the U.S. or the
District of Columbia.
Current certification in CPR by an American Health Association Vendor.. Current Basic Life Support certification. If assigned to a specialty clinic, RN shall also
have current ACLS certification.
A minimum of one (1) year direct patient care experience within the last three (3) years.
VA experience is desirable.
A minimum of one (1) year direct patient care experience within the specialty care setting
to which being assigned.

A certification in the assigned specialty care area discipline is highly desirable.

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