Icu staff nurse staff vs traveling nurse

Differences between icu staff nurse staff and traveling nurse duties and responsibilities

Icu staff nurse staff example responsibilities.

• Manage patients requiring blood transfusions, iv antibiotic therapy, complications from chemotherapy and radiation.
• Maintain BLS, ACLS and CCRN certifications.
• Obtain BLS and ACLS instructor status.
• Promote a compassion and a therapeutic environment for all patients and family members.
• Perform EKG interpretation, vital sign monitoring and respond according to patient needs and physician orders.
• Provide emergency resuscitation utilizing ACLS protocol when necessary.
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Traveling nurse example responsibilities.

• Manage critically ill patient as a result of trauma, including vent management, ICP monitoring, and CRRT.
• Manage and further help stabilize elective and/or urgent surgical patient in their post-operative, post PACU admission to the floor.
• Manage bedside care per MD orders, administering medications, ensuring patient safety, assisting in ADL care, etc.
• Monitor chemotherapy and administration of oral chemo medication, obtain laboratory specimens to manage client status via central lines.
• Travel nurse who provide care to patients in SICU, MICU, CCU, and CVICU.
• Work in both MICU and SICU
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