Registered Nurse (RN) Burn ICU

JOBID: 862731

Position: Registered Nurse (RN) Burn ICU

Shift Schedule:Night 
Nights, EOW, first to float
36 hours per week

Location: Bakersfield, CA, 93301

Acute Care Setting

Start date:05/27/2025

Shift Length=12 

Pay: $75 to $80 depending on experience.

Required Certifications
ACLS, BLS, NIHSS, PALS

Job description

Registered nurses (RNs) perform basic duties that include treating patients, educating patients about mental and medical conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients and/or family members, running therapeutic groups, psychiatric crisis intervention, and seclusion and restraint of patients. RNs record patients’ medical histories and symptoms, help to perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operate medical machinery, administer treatment and medications, and help with patient follow-up and rehabilitation. RNs teach patients and their families how to manage their illness or injury, diet and exercise programs, and self-administration of medication and physical therapy. Other related duties.

Additional Details

Trauma Level---

Cerner

**CERNER REQUIRED**
***MUST HAVE 1 YEAR OF BURN EXPERIENCE IN A BURN UNIT*** Floating to a burn unit does not count.
No first time travelers

-Basic EKG interpretation test assigned to them during orientation. Critical care RNs (ED/ICUs/PICU) will have more than just the basic interpretation test (like those included in the STEMI curriculum and Procedural Sedation curriculum assigned to them).

- Unit: Burn Unit
- Certs: BLS, PALS, ACLS--prefer advanced burn life support
- Ratios: 1 to 2 (treated as an ICU)
- EMR: Cerner
- Charge Nurse: Yes
- Nurse Aides: No--have a burn tech (not on every shift); assist w/ hydrotherapy and dressing changes
- Weekend Requirement: Every other weekend
- Holidays: 2 out of 3 holidays
- Scrub Color: Navy blue
- Tele: Phillips in burn unit, must be abel to read own
- Vents: Yes
- Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: The hospitalist and intensivist consult, but burn surgeons cover burns
- IV Team: n/a
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: Yes
- Call: If census dictates with a drop, will put on call
- Shifts: 6a, 6p
- Floating: Yes, PICU, peds or adult ICU
- Floor specific orientation: 2 shifts in burn unit, 1 shift PICU or ICU and 1 shift peds
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: Primary burns (ICU level to med surg level) for adults and children
- Additional Notes: A minimum of 6 months to 1 year experience in a burn ICU

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