Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Registered Nurse (RN) to join our client's Intensive Care Unit. The ICU RN will provide advanced nursing care to critically ill and medically complex patients requiring continuous assessment, close monitoring, life-sustaining therapies, and rapid clinical intervention.
The successful candidate will demonstrate strong critical-thinking skills, clinical judgment, crisis-management abilities, and the capacity to work effectively in a fast-paced, high-acuity environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform comprehensive physical, psychosocial, neurological, and hemodynamic assessments.
- Continuously monitor and analyze changes in patient condition.
- Plan, implement, and evaluate individualized critical-care plans using the nursing process.
- Provide care to critically ill patients with complex medical, surgical, cardiac, respiratory, neurological, and multi-system conditions.
- Recognize early signs of deterioration and initiate immediate interventions.
- Administer medications, titrated infusions, blood products, intravenous therapies, and treatments in accordance with College of Nurses of Ontario standards.
- Monitor and manage invasive lines, drains, feeding tubes, catheters, and advanced monitoring equipment.
- Provide nursing care to patients receiving mechanical ventilation, sedation, vasopressors, and other life-sustaining therapies.
- Assist with emergency procedures, resuscitation, intubation, central-line placement, and bedside procedures.
- Interpret vital signs, laboratory results, cardiac rhythms, hemodynamic data, and treatment responses.
- Collaborate closely with intensivists, physicians, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, dietitians, and other healthcare professionals.
- Provide clear and compassionate education and emotional support to patients and families.
- Participate in goals-of-care discussions, transition planning, and discharge or transfer coordination.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and comprehensive patient documentation.
- Follow all infection prevention, medication safety, privacy, and critical-care protocols.
- Act in an in-charge, charge nurse, rapid response, or leadership role when assigned.
- Support staff orientation, preceptorship, mentoring, and team-building.
- Participate in code response, quality improvement, continuing education, and unit-based competency programs.
Required Qualifications
- Current Certificate of Registration in good standing as a Registered Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
- Current Basic Cardiac Life Support certification.
- Graduate of an approved nursing education program.
- Recent critical-care or high-acuity nursing experience.
- Strong crisis intervention, critical decision-making, and organizational skills.
- Ability to recognize and respond quickly to life-threatening changes in patient condition.
- Ability to function independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, high-acuity environment.
- Strong medication-administration, assessment, and clinical-documentation skills.
- Effective communication, time-management, and interpersonal skills.
- Good computer and electronic health record skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.
- Current Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support certification.
- Critical Care Nursing Certificate or equivalent specialty education.
- Experience with mechanical ventilation, invasive monitoring, vasoactive medications, and continuous infusions.
- Experience in medical, surgical, cardiac, neurological, or trauma intensive care.
- Previous charge nurse, rapid response, preceptor, or leadership experience.
Pay: $58.98-$62.42 per hour
Licence/Certification:
- Registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario (required)
- BLS Certification (required)
Work Location: In person
