RN - PCU

RN-Registered Nurse // PCU - Progressive Care Unit $1,246 weekly stipends $20/hour $720 weekly base pay Onsite Contract Starts 4/20/2026 13 weeks

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Job Description

Night Shift 12 hours/day 3 days/week

JOB DESCRIPTION

RN - PCU

About Facility:

• 637 licensed beds
• Level 1 Trauma Designation
• Teaching Hospital
• Chest Pain Center
• Stroke Center

Unit Information:

• Beds: 10
• Census? 10
• Minimum Years of Experience required? 2 years PCU RN experience
• Will you accept a first-time traveler? Yes

Patient Types/Common Diagnoses:

• Step Down ICU patients
• Common diagnoses: respiratory failure, renal failure, sepsis, GI Bleed, DKA, hypotension, hypertension, stroke, pneumonia, cancer, ARDS, overdoses
• Step downs from ICU and ER admissions
• Chronic home ventilators with static vent settings

Patient Ratios:

• RN: 1:3-4
• CNA: 1-2 per shift

Required License, National Certification, Certs (BLS, ACLS, etc.), or other position specific requirements such as Driver s License and/or Insurance:

• NIHSS, BLS, and ACLS certification required
• CCRn (critical care nursing certification) preferred but not required
• BCR (Basic Cardiac Rythm)– meaning traveler will be required to pass an EKG competency exam as part of Compliance

Skills required:

• Trach chare, chest tube management, PIV starts, glucommander, insulin drips, heparin drips, drips to titrate to HR not BP
• Monitoring and management of invasive lines i.e. arterial lines, central venous lines, pulse oximetry, intracranial pressure monitoring
• Assist/management of a variety of bedside procedures i.e. chest tube placement/management, tracheostomy, peg tube placement

Support within the Department:

• CNA? Duties? Yes - assist with VS, Glucose Checks, baths, feeding, ambulating patients, assisting turning patients, hourly rounding, transporting patients as needed (Hospital has designated Transport Team); obtain blood from blood bank
• Receptionist/HUC? Unit secretary on unit 7a-11p; then house wide call secretary 11p-7a
• Charge nurse – may have patients
• Phlebotomy? Most units are lab collect phlebotomy; nurses drawn from CVLs
• IV/VAT Team? Not an IV team - do have a PICC team
• Resource Nurse? Yes, we have discharge nurses, resource team floats to all units
• RT 24/7? yes
• Hospitalist 24/7? yes
• Intensivist 24/7? yes
• Telemetry monitoring/tech? Central Telemetry Unit

Technology/Equipment:

• EMR: EPIC
• IV Pump:
  Alaris
• Med dispensing:
  Pyxis
• Monitors:
  Phillips
• Unit specific equipment:
• VS3 vital sign monitors, Nova Glucose Stat Strips
• Belmont Rapid Infuser
• TABLO
• PCA pain management
• SCD s (sequential compression devices)
• Cooling and heating blankets-devices
• Floating:
  If yes, where?
• o Within and below scope as needed

Orientation (facility and unit):

• 1 day orientation with work on educational modules
• 2 days departmental

Scheduling:

• Weekend rotation: 5-6 weekend shifts out of 12 (on a 6-week schedule)
• On call? If so, what is that schedule? No call
• Holiday Expectations: work one shift of each major holiday (Thanksgiving Day or day after 12/24 or 12/25 12/31 or 1/1
• RTO Requests:
  Manager approval
• Shift times: 12-hour shifts 7A-7P or 7P-7A
• Schedule cycle: every 6 weeks

Other notes:

• Scrub Color: RN
  - Navy
• Parking:
  Free? Have free parking around campus or can pay to park in parking decks
• Unit Culture: busy but work as team

CUSTOM FIELDS

Simpli Fi Job Status

Simpli Fi Job Status Notes

Shift

• 12hr Night Shift - 36

Shift Information

• 7p-7a

Simpli Fi Clinical Interviewing
- Yes/No

Yes

On Call, Call Back Requirements

None

Weekend Rotation

• 6 weekend shifts on a 6 week schedule (6 shifts out of 12)

Holiday Requirements

• Travelers will work 75% of holidays

Floating Requirements

• To other PCU units

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