ICU Nurse

To provide specialized, comprehensive, humanized, and high-quality care to critical or potentially critical patients, performing follow-ups, complying with quality standards, and ensuring their safety.

1. Receive and attend to the patient upon admission to the unit, in order to identify their needs and plan their care.
2. Perform systematic verbal and written communication between different shifts regarding the patient's evolution, compliance with nursing care, and unit management, in order to ensure continuous care by the entire team. To this end, tasks related to information recording and communication about the patient and the correct functioning of medical materials are performed.
3. Collaborate during medical rounds, participating and assisting the doctor by providing the medical history, results, and complementary tests, helping the patient during the physical examination, reporting on the patient's evolution and status, and noting the observations made by the doctor.
4. Perform nursing care duties and follow up on patients admitted to the ICU, attending to the prescriptions of medical professionals and ensuring their safety. Perform nursing rounds and review documents, observe and monitor vital signs, identify and prioritize needs, perform, record, and evaluate care, administer and record medical treatment, and observe clinical signs and patient evolution.
5. Provide patient care to help satisfy their personal hygiene needs in a safe, private environment, preventing infection risk while promoting their recovery.
6. Collaborate in the performance of diagnostic tests, taking and extracting samples from organic elements. And process and plan diagnostic tests from outside the unit, completing and sending requests to other services for the indicated medical request, as well as coordinating their performance at the precise moment.
7. Transfer the continuity of care report for the patient who is to be discharged to a ward or transferred to another hospital center, ensuring their correct identification for any process.
8. Control and maintain the good condition of the unit's equipment, and review the stock of material in the ICU crash cart.
9. Provide support in the monthly review of stock and expiration dates of medication and disposable material.
10. Promote education for the patient and companions, advising them on everything regarding the illness and safety regulations.

• Nursing care.
• Intensive care.
• Health urgencies and emergencies.