Critical Care Nurse - Day Shift

Company: ScionHealth
Location: Lakewood
Posted on: April 23, 2025

Job Description:

Critical Care Nurse - Day Shift at ScionHealth summary:
As a Critical Care Nurse at Kindred Healthcare, I provide compassionate and exceptional patient care to chronic and critically ill patients during their recovery in a transitional care setting. My responsibilities include assessing patient progress, managing pain procedures, and supervising ancillary staff while ensuring accurate documentation and participation in discharge planning. With my Registered Nurse licensure and experience in acute-care settings, I am dedicated to delivering meaningful outcomes and enhancing the patient experience.
Description

$51.19 - $74.66 hourly

What makes Kindred Healthcare a great place to work? Our people, of course! Our Registered Nurses answer this special calling because they have a fundamental, internal drive to directly help people. In return, we serve, develop and respect our employees in environments created to optimize their job effectiveness, experience, and satisfaction. This is who we are.

Who are you? To succeed in our high-energy, high reward environment, our nurses provide compassionate critical care and deliver exceptional patient experiences, meaningful outcomes, and bonds for life.

As the most acute level of care in Kindred's continuum, our transitional care hospitals offer the same critical care patients receive in a traditional hospital or intensive care unit, but for an extended recovery period. Our Registered Nurses play a vital role in the recovery process for chronic, critically ill and medically complex patients.

As an ICU Registered Nurse / ICU RN you will:

• Deliver quality patient care by contributing to the nursing care plan from admission to discharge.
• Prepare assessment of patient's progress and keep family informed.
• Monitor pain management procedures.
• Participate in the discharge planning process.
• Ensure current and accurate patient documentation.
• Supervise ancillary staff members. Qualifications
  
  As an ICU Registered Nurse / ICU RN you will have:
  • Knowledge of medication - administration procedures.
  • At least six months Medical/Surgical experience in an acute-care setting is preferred. Critical Care experience preferred.
  • BCLS certification is required. ACLS preferred.
  • Current state licensure as Registered Nurse / RN.
  • Bachelor's degree in Nursing, an Associate's degree, or a Nursing diploma from an accredited Institution as a Registered Nurse / RN.
    
    Keywords:
    Critical Care Nurse, ICU RN, patient care, nursing, acute care, healthcare, transitional care, Registered Nurse, patient experience, medical
    

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