RN-ICU in Lander, WY

Critical Care Nurse Position summary: Provides direct high-level nursing care to critically ill patients. Responsible for monitoring life support equipment, attending to wounds, responding to changing patient conditions and providing advanced life support. Primary duties: • Assesses, plans and evaluates patient care needs. • Administers prescribed medications, changes dressings, cleans wounds, and monitors vital signs. • Carries out physician orders and clarifies, educates and instructs patients and families of them as needed. • Monitors, records and communicates patient condition as appropriate utilizing computerized documentation systems. • Assesses and coordinates patient discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team. Scion Health considers a consistently positive, cooperative, self-motivated, courteous, and professional attitude to be an essential function of every position. While different positions have different primary areas of responsibility, everyone needs to work as a team, and we expect all employees to roll up their sleeves and pitch in as necessary to get the job done. Employees must be able to relate to other people beyond giving and receiving instructions: (a) can get along with co-workers or peers without exhibiting behavioral extremes, (b) perform work activities requiring negotiating, instructing, supervising, persuading, or speaking with others; and (c) respond appropriately to constructive feedback from a supervisor. Qualifications: Required licenses: • Must have current and valid Wyoming RN license or compact equivalent. Required skills: • Current BLS certification through American Heart Association. • Current ACLS certification through American Heart Association. • Current PALS or ENPC certification through American Heart Association or required within 90 days of hire or transfer into department. • Current TNCC or within 1 year of initial hire.