Registered Nurse – ICU - Critical Care (Telehealth)

(VIRTUAL TELEHEALTH NURSING - NO BEDSIDE CARE)

Onsite at Naval Medical Center, San Diego, CA

Maxmed Healthcare is seeking a Registered Nurse to work Onsite at the Tele-Critical Care Unit at Naval Medical Center, San Diego, California.

Our RN opportunity is a fulltime position. Shifts are Rotating or Static Shifts, 7 days per week; 12 hour day shift: 0545-1815, 12 hour night shift: 1745-0615, 8 hour day shift: 0545-1415 or 0945-1815, 8 hour night shift: 1745-0215 or 2145-0615.

Our RN’s responsibilities are:

• Provide virtual comprehensive nursing care monitoring and consultation to on-site medical staff caring for acute and/or chronically ill adults to geriatric patient populations with complex and critical medical-surgical conditions while meeting established standards of care, and delivering care within the principles of the Nursing Process.
• Collect, document, analyze, and interpret physiological, hemodynamic, and laboratory results important to patient treatment regimens and ongoing assessments. Report any abnormal or pertinent findings to on-site medical providers, charge nurses and supervisors as appropriate. Contribute to medical examinations of patients by observing, recognizing, recording, and reporting changes in patient conditions, symptoms, reactions to medications, and responses to treatment modalities to on-site care personnel.
• Virtually assist on-site care personnel in the administration of all medications, immunizations, blood, and blood products, as prescribed by a Licensed Independent Practitioner (LIP) and in compliance with Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) guidelines, policies and instructions.
• Consult with on-site care personnel on the administration of potent vasoactive medications, intravenous (IV) push medications, arterial blood gas sampling, central line maintenance, and care of respiratory compromised and critically ill patients with complex health impairments.
• Virtually perform nursing care specific to the unique needs of families suffering a bereavement loss.