Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit - COVID19 - $2,308 per week
Company: Mercy Medical Center Redding
Location: Redding
Posted on: September 30, 2024
Job Description:
- Certification Details
- Required Certifications (i.e., BLS, ACLS?): BLS, ACLS
- Common diagnoses/Types of patients: Stepdown patients from ICU,
TBI/trauma patients, major surgery, CEA, sepsis
- Experience or 'Must have' skills: Arterial and CVP pressure
lines; titrating pressors; Precedex; trach & stable vented
patients
- Are RNs required to titrate drips? Yes
- Common titratable &/or set rate drips: Precedex, dopamine,
dobutamine, levophed
- Job Details
- A hospital in California is looking for an experienced PCU RN
for a travel assignment.
- The PCU is a stepdown unit from the ICU. It will be a 3:1 nurse
patient ratio for closer monitoring of the ICU patients that don't
quite meet the tele level of care.
- RN's should have experience in an ICU stepdown or PCU unit.
Training is telemetry. Training in high-risk medications
- Job Requirements
- The right candidate will have 2+ years of experience, hold an
active BLS, ACLS, and CA license.
- Must have 2-3 years of experience in specialty - open to
first-time travelers.
- Schedule Information
- Shifts & Scheduling: 12Hr shifts starting at 645am/pm. 3
shifts/week. Schedules made out about 2-3 weeks in advance
initially and then try to schedule them out 9 weeks in advance.
Self-scheduling for the most part.
- Weekend Requirements: 4 weekend shifts in a 4-week schedule,
Days - Sat/Sun, Nights - Fri/Sat
- Holiday Requirements: Work into perm staff rotation
- Is there call or a standby requirement? No
- Unit Specific Information
- Unit: PCU/Step-down (critical care stepdown)
- # Beds: 14 beds/7 rooms
- Nurse:Patient Ratios: 1:3
- Are there nurse aids on this unit/Ratios: 1 aid most of the
time for all 14 beds
- Floating Requirements: First to float, float to Tele or
MedSurg
- Scrub Color/Dress code: Navy blue
- Unit/Department-specific orientation: 1 shift on unit
- Additional Details
- COVID Vaccine Required (Certification)
- The unit is a very busy unit with a lot of quick
turnovers.
- They stress the patient experience on the unit and they want
someone who knows and understands HCAHPS and core measures.
- Want someone that will be invested in their mission and
values.
- It is also important the traveler is self-motivated and
team-oriented.
- They are very traveler friendly.
- Very close-knit team with effective teamwork.
- Holiday time-off (RTO) will be considered, however, it may not
be guaranteed.
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