Req #: 238763

Department: HARBORVIEW - ICUs

Posting Date: 09/09/2024

Closing Info: Open Until Filled

Salary: 90% of $7,596 - $13,798 per month

Shift: Night Shift

Notes: As a UW Medicine employee you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For detailed information on the benefits for this position, click here (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-summary-classified-staff-greater-than-half-time-20220908_a11y.pdf) .

Join Harborview Medical Center's teams of outstanding ICU nurses! (Registered Nurse; RN).

Harborview Medical Center is a level one adult and pediatric trauma center as well as regional burn center for a four state region; a teaching and research hospital for the University of Washington; and a public/safety-net hospital for our diverse community.

Join our excellent teams!

Harborview ICUs are recipients of the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence.

Harborview Medical Center was awarded Magnet recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for our excellence in patient care for the community and populations we serve.

$10,000 Recruitment Incentive/Sign-On Bonus for eligible new employees joining UW Medicine

A higher degree of healthcare. All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored.

Current Harborview ICU staff nurse (RN) positions are as follows: (Critical care, ICU (intensive care units) opportunities).

• 8MB Flex Unit - 90% FTE Nights positions, currently open. This is a 15-bed unit providing intensive and acute care for critically ill adult patients. The multidisciplinary staff is highly collaborative and supportive, working together to achieve the best patient outcomes. The 8MB Flex Unit is an integral part of Harborview’s ability to adjust level of care with the fluctuating daily census. The team that works in this space provides care based on the needs of the patient, which can be both intensive care and acute care in a given day. Seeking experienced ICU RNs to join the awesome 8MB Flex Unit team.

• Medical Cardiac ICU - 90% FTE Nights position currently open. The Medical Cardiac ICU, (2EH), is a 17 bed unit providing acute care for critically ill adult and geriatric patients. The multidisciplinary staff is highly collaborative and supportive working together to achieve the best patient outcomes possible. The MCICU works closely with the cardiac catheterization lab to assist in quick diagnosis and treatment of patients requiring percutaneous coronary intervention. The unit specializes in treating patients with therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest. The unit is the home base of Seattle's Medic One for treatment of patients who have suffered a heart attack. The staff has expert specialized training in ACLS, intra-aortic balloon pump, continuous renal replacement therapy, and transvenous pacemaker. The MCICU also provides care to critically-ill patients with conditions related to multi-system organ failure; gastrointestinal disease; blood infections/Sepsis; cancer; cardiac disease; lung disease; kidney disease; liver disease.

• Trauma Surgical ICU - no positions currently open, but more could arise at any time. The Trauma Surgical ICU at Harborview (9MB) is a 24 bed unit for patients with multi-system, traumatic injuries. Patient management presents challenges in respiratory, thoracic, vascular, neurologic and orthopedic care. Nurses are involved in a variety of innovative research projects. Nurses provide critical care management to multi-service adult patients. They care for patients ranging in a variety of medical/surgical diagnoses and trauma injuries; and are involved in a variety of unit-based and hospital-wide projects.

• Burn and Pediatric Trauma ICU - no positions currently open, but more could arise at any time. The Burn and Pediatric Trauma ICU, (9EH), an 18 bed unit, is a broad-ranging, multi-specialty ICU. The unit serves as the Regional Burn Center and Level 1 Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center for the WAMI Region serving Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho. Comprehensive care is provided to pediatric and adult patients with burn, plastic, trauma, neurosurgery, medical and neurologic injuries.

• UW burn center at HMC opened in 1974. -Verified by the American Burn Association and American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.
• The first site of a major clinical trial for artificial skin graft.

• Survival rate for the burn center is over 97%.

• Neurosciences ICU - no positions currently open, but more could arise at any time. The Neuroscience ICU, a 30 bed unit, (2WH) is a major referral unit for neurological surgery and neurology services. The Neuro ICU provides specialized intensive nursing care to patients with complex neurological deficits and injuries. The unit serves adult victims of severe head and spinal cord injury, diseases and disorders of the brain, spine and peripheral nerves, and a growing elective neurosurgery population.

• Critical Care Float Pool (may include STAT RN role). No positions currently open, but more could arise at any time. (please note that Critical Care Float Pool RNs may float among the ICUs, as well as to the ED, and to PACU, and also potentially to acute care and ICU border areas as needed).

Requires current license to practice as a registered nurse in the State of Washington (or obtain by employment start date). Requires minimum one year ICU nursing experience (two+ years desirable).

(note - for ICU Training Program positions, for RNs new to ICU, please apply to separate job posting req # 232972.)

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.