Travel Stepdown; Progressive Care Unit Registered Nurse

Travel Stepdown (Progressive Care Unit) Registered Nurse - $2,501 per week at Consolidated Medical Travel summary:
This position is for a Travel Registered Nurse specializing in the Progressive Care Unit, providing care for patients with cardiac and respiratory conditions in a fast-paced hospital setting. Responsibilities include titrating drips, interpreting cardiac monitor strips, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. The role requires certifications such as BLS, ACLS, and NIHSS, with shifts involving day and night rotations and occasional ICU floating duties.
Consolidated Medical Travel is seeking a travel nurse RN PCU - Progressive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: PCU - Progressive Care Unit

• Discipline: RN

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Start Date:

• Duration: 13 weeks

• 36 hours per week

• Shift: 12 hours, days

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Employment Type:

Travel
NOTES

* Certifications

Required:

BLS, ACLS, NIHSS
* - # of Beds: 22
- Nurse:

Patient Ratios: 1:04
- Common diagnoses/Types of patients:
Heart failure, Afib, respiratory distress, stroke
- Are RNs required to titrate drips?:
Yes
- Common titratable &/or set rate drips:
Cardizem, amiodarone, nitro
- Is there a Charge Nurse on each shift? Does the charge nurse take an assignment?:
Yes- does take a full patient assignment
- Are there nurse aids/patient care techs on this unit? Ratios? Duties?:
Yes
- 1:10 - RT Equipment (Vents, Cpap, BiPap, High Flow, etc.) Are RNs required to do anything with these besides trouble shoot?: CPAP
- Are there Tele/Monitor Techs on this unit? Are RNs required to read their own strips? What brand are the tele monitors?: RNs must read and interpret strips
- Shifts & Scheduling (Do you allow self-scheduling? Block scheduling?):,cyclic scheduling
- Weekend Requirements:
Every other
- Holiday Requirements: 1 major, 1 minor
- Floating Requirements:
Will float to ICU if appropriate and has experience
- How many shifts of unit/department specific orientation?:hour shift in the department
- Additional Notes:
Fast paced unit with many admits and discharges. Attributes that help make a nurse successful in this department are a positive attitude, teamwork, patient oriented, and comes to work to care for someone
Keywords:
Travel Nurse, Progressive Care Unit, Registered Nurse, PCU Nurse, Critical Care Nursing, Cardiac Nursing, ACLS, BLS, Patient Care, ICU Floating