Leadership Team:
Nurse Director:
- Susan L. Zajac, RN, BSN,CCRN
Associate Nurse Director:
- Dawn Kaliszewski, RN, BSN, CCRN
Associate Nurse Director:
- Inga Savage, RN, BSN, CCRN
Clinical Nurse Specialist:
- Cindy Rouse, RN, MSN
Clinical Nursing:
- Clinical Ladder: CN I – CN IV
- Clinical Coordinator
Support Staffing:
- Unit Secretaries
- Patient Care Assistant
- Respiratory Therapy
- Care Management
- Vascular Access Team
2 Intensive Care Unit
2 ICU is a 28- bed trauma/surgical ICU caring for trauma, open-heart surgery and general surgery patients. Patients benefit from a collaborative approach to their care that entails daily interdisciplinary rounds involving nursing, nutrition, pharmacy, PT/OT, care management, and clinical coordinators. Daily goals are established for each patient to facilitate the care plan and to effectively move the patient through the healing process.
The unit operates under a shared governance leadership model.
2 ICU has a 16-week individualized orientation plan that includes weekly meetings with the preceptor, Clinical Nurse Specialist and new employees. Upon completion of orientation, continuing education is offered and encouraged on an ongoing basis.
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Level of Care:
- Types of patients: cardiovascular surgery, trauma, neuro-surgical, CABG, general surgery patients needing ICU
- Number of beds on unit: 28
- Average daily census: 22
- Nurse/Patient Ratio: 1:2 based on patient condition
Specialized Unit Technology:
- Equipment: Accudose medication system, Alaris Medley Infusion Pumps, Careview bedside charting, IABP, CVVHD, Swans, A-lines, vents, Level I infuser, continuous cardiac output machine, (MAK) medication administration system, Lylox Rotoprone bed
- Monitors: centralized monitoring, Philips bedside monitors
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Recruitment Opportunities:
- Student Intern Program
- Student Nurse to PCA/Secretary
- Patient Care Assistant sitters
- Nurse Assistant training Program
- Shadowing: Required for all candidate
