PCU - Progressive Care Unit

Opportunity:

RN - Stepdown

Job Details:

• Work 12-hour night shifts with weekends and holidays as scheduled
• Weekend requirement of 3 weekend shifts in a 4-week schedule (Saturday, Sunday, Saturday)
• Required to work holidays if needed
• No on-call or standby call requirements
• Floating requirement is very rare
• 32-bed stepdown unit with patient ratios of 1:3 for stepdown assignments and 1:4 for combo assignments (2 stepdown & 2 floor patients or 3 stepdown & 1 floor)
• 3-4 CNAs per shift available on the unit
• Care for post-surgical thoracic and medicine patients
• Must have strong MedSurg Stepdown experience and ability to titrate drips and read strips
• Titrate drips with specific parameters per MD orders including Cardizem, Amiodarone, Dopamine, Nitro, Esmolol, Heparin, and Lasix (no vasopressors)
• Interpret and chart patient rhythm with assessments every 4 hours or more frequently during medication titration
• Work with BiPAP and trach patients (no ventilators)
• Centralized telemetry interprets and places EKG strips into patient charts
• 3 shifts of unit orientation provided
• Cancellation policy of 2 shifts per 13-week contract
• Charting system: EPIC
• Scrub color: Royal Blue
• Required certifications: ACLS and BLS
• Acute care setting