Job Description
A critical care nurse role is available at a well-regarded healthcare facility in Des Plaines, IL, specializing in stepdown unit care. This contract position focuses on managing patients recovering from severe medical events such as heart attacks, strokes, respiratory distress, and trauma, requiring advanced clinical skills and critical thinking.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assess and implement individualized patient care plans in a stepdown setting
- Provide advanced life support and wound treatment
- Assist physicians during medical procedures
- Monitor and record patient vital signs accurately
- Manage and adjust ventilators, IABP, and other life-support equipment
- Administer intravenous fluids and medication safely
- Perform suctioning and other respiratory care measures
- Collaborate effectively with the interdisciplinary critical care team
- Respond swiftly to life-saving situations following established nursing proto...
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