Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit

Soliant Health is seeking a travel nurse RN PCU - Progressive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Albany, Georgia.

• Specialty:
  PCU - Progressive Care Unit
• Discipline:
  RN
• Start Date:
  
  ASAP
• Duration:
  13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift:
  12 hours, nights
• Employment Type:
  
  Travel

Experience:

2 years in Stepdown in an acute care setting is required w/o exception.

Unit Notes for Cardiology (Stepdown Unit):
Nurse Aides 1 to 10
Ratios 1 to 5
# beds 44 beds, 8 semiprivate rooms (16 beds)
Notes Obtained by Abarna
Certs BLS, ACLS, NIHSS preferred.
Unit Cardiology-4A/4B--This is cardiac stepdown.
4A is more cardiothoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 4B is for smaller procedures, drips, CHF patients.
Charge Nurse Charge Nurse (Clinical Supervisor)
Weekend Requirement Every other weekend
Scrub Color
- Caribbean Blue
EMR Meditech
Holidays Must be flexible and work as needed holidays and days around holidays
Tele Yes, Phillips
Nurse's Read Strips? Yes, must read and interpret
Drips Cardizem (titrated), amiodarone, dobutamine, dopamine renal dose, lasix, bumex, heparin, primicor, vaprosol
Vents BiPap, CPAP only hour of sleep, vapotherm, no full vents, high flow oxygen
Hospitalist or Intensivist in house in house 24/7
IV Team PICC team
RT 24/7 Yes
Pharmacy 24/7 Yes
Shifts 645am, 645pm
Floating to ICU but would only take stepdown patients unless have ICU experience and this would be noted as ICU ok to float on contract
Floor specific orientation 3 shifts
Common diagnosis / Types of patients POD #1 CABG, anything cardiovascular surgery including fem pops, arteriogram, CEA. , thoracotomy, vats, EVARS, AAA repairs, arteriograms, carotid endarterectomies, stents, pacemakers, ablations, AICD, CHF, afib w/ RVR, CABG w/ pacer wires, adenosine cardioversions, a lot of chest tubes
Additional Notes Prefer able to pull pacer wires, if can't, they will orient to do
.

Soliant Health Job . Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined.

With Soliant, you become part of something big. We believe that together, we’re better. Soliant fosters an environment of giving – of our time and resources – to the communities we serve. We do our part corporately by providing our healthcare professionals with unmatched career opportunities, compensation and personalized service that goes beyond job placement. Our healthcare professionals are then free to enrich the communities in which they live, volunteering or giving where their hearts lead them.

We’re a different kind of healthcare staffing agency. We build communities of care wherever we are – on the job and in the neighborhoods in which we live.

• Weekly pay
• 401k retirement plan
• License and certification reimbursement