Travel Nurse RN - PICC

Job Description

Integrated Healthcare Services is seeking a travel nurse RN PICC for a travel nursing job in Golden, Colorado.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: PICC
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 8 hours, days
• Employment Type: Travel

Job Summary:
N/A

Job Responsibilities:
--Assess:

• Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative, and developmental skills as appropriate).
• Seeks and evaluates information acquired from other members of interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, others.


--Plan:

• Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plans of care.
• Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop plan of care including needed education.
• Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes is met (i.e., teaching, referrals, and follow-up).


--Implement:

• Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration as appropriate.
• Provides or delegates care consistently with plan of care, guidelines of care and professional licensure provisions.
• Demonstrates the ability to set priorities and to coordinate and organize patient care delivery through effectively managing time, supplies, and resources.


--Evaluate:

• Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient, and family satisfaction.
• Revises plan of care as indicated and reassesses changes as appropriate.


--Professionalism:

• Promotes nursing profession and participate in development of others.
• Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice, complies with regulatory standards, practices within scope of licensure, provides accurate & timely documentation, and understands legal implications of care delivery.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Two (2) years of experience in PICC/Midline Insertions.
• Specialized vascular access professional who places, manages, and troubleshoots PICC lines and other central lines.
• Vascular Access assessment.
• Monitors PICC/Midline insertion.
• Central Line Management.
• Line Maintenance.
• Comfortable working independently and responding to consults throughout the facility.
• Ability to perform procedures at the bedside in various patient care environments.
• Patient Care Delivery.
• Documentation.
• Professional Etiquette.
• Accountability.
• Communication.
• Patient Evaluation.
• Critical Thinking.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• N/A

Required Education:

• N/A

Preferred Education:

• N/A

Required Certification & Licensure:

• Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice.
• Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment.
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers (AHA)
• Vascular Access Board Certification (VA-BC).

Preferred Certification & Licensure:

• N/A

Facility Credentialing Managed by Client:

• Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution.
• Degree will be verified.

BSN Required

QUALIFICATION/LICENSURE
Work Authorization : US Citizen
Preferred years of experience : 2 years
Travel required : No travel required
Shift timings : Days

Integrated Healthcare Services Job ID #37165604. Pay package is based on 8 hour shifts and 40 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined. Posted job title: RN - Vascular Access (PICC)