Full-time/ Days, Nights (rotating weekends)

Named a Top Workplace in Tampa Bay for four consecutive years, Northside Hospital is a 288-bed acute care facility serving the community since 1976. The facility is accredited by the Joint Commission has National Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification and Sepsis Certification.  Additionally, they  hold several accreditations including Chest Pain with Primary PCI with Resuscitation, CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound Programs.  Their Trauma Program will formally begin May 1, 2017, allowing them to accept patients at our hospital.

Unit Overview • Number of beds: 28

• Scope of Service: A wide variety of patients are cared for in NICU.  The major diagnostic groups include neuro patients but also may include medical surgical patients with cardiac diseases, and lateral transfers from ICU and CVI  with cardiac, respiratory, neurological, surgical or multisystem diseases.  These patients are in need of continuous EKG or hemodynamic monitoring, ventilator support or a higher acuity of care than that of a general medical-surgical unit, PCU, or CTU, NSU.
• Patient Population: The populations served are adolescents age 18 and above, adults and geriatrics.
• Services Provided: Management of a variety of patients requiring neurological care. Neurological Interventions include coilings for aneurysms and embolization.  Neuro surgery includes craniotomies for tumor resections, aneurysm clippings, burr holes for subdural hematomas, and insertion of drains, ventriculaostomies and VP shunts.  In addition we provide comprehensive Stroke Care.
• Typical Procedures: Bronchoscopy, EEG, Central line placement, thoracentesis, chest tube placements, EGD and colonoscopy.
• Major Equipment Used: Ventilators, hemodynamic monitoring, precept catheters, Ventrics, drains.

Qualifications

• Nursing Diploma or ASN required; BSN preferred
• Minimum 1 year Critical Care RN experience in an acute care setting preferred
• Current Florida State Registered Nurse license
• Current BLS (Basic Life Support) required
• Current ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) required
• NIHSS preferred
• CCRN preferred; but not required.
• Critical thinking, service excellence and good interpersonal communication skills, ability to read/comprehend written instructions, ability to follow verbal instructions, PC skills

Compensation commensurate with experience with salary range between $23.91-$37.01/hr. plus night differential