RN - Intermediate ICU

Eskenazi Health; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Stunning benefits

Shift differential

Weekend incentive pay

Double-time holidays

Culture of caring

Job summary

Eskenazi Health is seeking an Intermediate ICU RN to provide advanced clinical care in a high-acuity setting at a Level 1 trauma center in Indianapolis. You will coordinate care using the Eskenazi Health model, maintain a 1:3 nurse-to-patient ratio, and support patients and families through complex care across MICU and SICU interfaces.

Candidates should have Indiana RN licensure, an RN degree, and BLS certification, with at least 1 year of RN experience.

Qualifications

• Current Indiana license as a Registered Nurse.
• RN degree from a nationally accredited college or university.
• Current BLS certification; other certifications may be required in specific units to practice.
• Minimum of 1-year clinical nursing experience as a Registered Nurse.

Responsibilities

• Q1 hour vital signs/neuro checks.
• Elective cardioversion when indicated.
• Stable ventilator management and arterial BP monitoring.
• Administer low-dose vasopressors and inotropes as ordered.
• Diligent patient and family communication and care coordination.

Skills

Critical care

Telemetry/ICU

Nursing assessment

Communication with families

Education

RN license

BSN preferred

Tools

Ventilators

ECG monitoring

Job description

Division: Eskenazi Health

Sub-Division: Hospital

Schedule: Full Time

Shift: Nights

Opportunity Overview

The Intermediate ICU RN provides clinical care and uses coordination skills for every patient served. This includes an understanding of the expected patients served in the unit's. Nursing care is delivered using the Eskenazi Health Model of Care-Synergy, the ability to coordinate with the patient and family/loved ones and other healthcare disciplines to ensure care is appropriate to meet patient care needs. Proactively contributes to Eskenazi Health's mission: Advocate, Care, Teach, and Serve with special emphasis on the vulnerable population of Marion County; models Eskenazi Health values. In addition to new employee and clinical core orientation, we ensure team members are provided a departmental orientation that is flexible based on YOUR needs. Better support for nurses means better care for patients. That is why Eskenazi Health is not only here for the community and our patients, we're here for our nurses too.

What You Can Expect

Eskenazi Health is a Level 1 trauma center. Due to our high acuity, team members in this role can anticipate caring for and monitoring high acuity patients whose acuity is a blend between progressive care and ICU in a 1:3 nurse to patient ratio. You will also encounter patients with a wide variety of backgrounds, disease processes, and interventions due to being a bridge between our Acuity Adaptable unit and our MICU/SICU. In this role, candidates will learn and perform the following:

• Q1 hour vital signs/neuro checks
• elective cardioversion
• stable ventilator management
• arterial BP monitoring
• low dose vasopressors (dopamine and levophed)
• intropes (milrinone and dobutamine)
• antihypertensives (Nitroglycerin, Nicardipine)
• Dexmed
• Ativan
• Narcan
• ketamine
• lidocaine
• Adenosine
• Esmolol
• Diltiazem
• Amiodarone
• epidurals
• insulin
• and more

Ratio: 1:3 in IICU

Beds: 36 Beds

Qualifications

• Current Indiana license as a Registered Nurse
• RN degree from a nationally accredited college or university
• Current BLS certification; other certifications may be required in specific units to practice
• Minimum of 1-year clinical nursing experience as a Registered Nurse

Schedule & Availability

We currently have openings for full-time. We have a six-week self-schedule model that allows you to give your preference and it is modified as needed per unit needs. Weekends are adjusted per schedule needs, but roughly every third weekend.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Stunning benefits (retirement matching, tuition reimbursement, PTO, medical, dental, vision, and more!)
• Established shift differential, for eligible shift hours
• Weekend incentive pay
• Seven Major holidays paid at double time
• A culture of caring not only for patients/family members but also for our staff

About Us

Eskenazi Health serves as the public hospital division of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County. Physicians provide a comprehensive range of primary and specialty care services at the 327-bed hospital and outpatient facilities both on and off of the Eskenazi Health downtown campus as well as at 10 Eskenazi Health Center sites located throughout Indianapolis. Accredited by The Joint Commission and named one of the nation's 150 best places to work by Becker's Hospital Review for four consecutive years and Forbes list of best places to work for women, and Forbes list of America's best midsize employers' Eskenazi Health's programs have received national recognition while also offering new health care opportunities to the local community. As the sponsoring hospital for Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services, the city's primary EMS provider, Eskenazi Health is also home to the first adult Level 1 trauma center in Indiana, the only verified adult burn center in Indiana, the first community mental health center in Indiana and the Eskenazi Health Center Primary Care - Center of Excellence in Women's Health, just to name a few.