Named a Top Workplace in Tampa Bay for four consecutive years. Northside Hospital is a 288-bed facility serving the community since 1976.  Northside is located in the heart of Pinellas County only minutes from the pristine Gulf coast beaches as well as the thriving city life of downtown St. Petersburg, FL.   As the first Comprehensive Stroke Center in St. Petersburg, our technologically advanced facility allows our superior physicians and nursing staff to care for our growing community. With campus-based specialized units, such as the Tampa Bay Heart Institute, and the Neuroscience Institute for Interventional Neuroradiology and neurologic care, Northside Hospital continues to enhance and expand its services to better serve the St. Petersburg community.  Excelling in Patient Safety, we are the only hospital in St. Petersburg to earn an “A” in the Leapfrog Fall 2015 Hospital Safety Score.  Northside also received a 3 Star (highest available) Quality Rating from the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons.

Unit Overview

• Number of beds: 16
• 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.

RN ICU Qualifications

• Nursing Diploma or ASN required; BSN preferred                           
• Minimum 1 year Critical Care RN experience in an acute care setting preferred             
• Current Florida State RN 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 a salary range between $23.56-$36.46 w/night differential of $4.50