Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit - $1,915 per week
Company: Parkridge Medical Center
Location: Chattanooga
Posted on: September 12, 2024
Job Description:
- Certification Details
- Certifications: BLS and ACLS required.
- Job Details
- Hospital: Parkridge Medical Center
- Location: Chattanooga, TN
- Unit Name: Progressive Care Unit
- Number of Beds: 29
- Patient Ratios: 4:1
- Unit staffing description: Dayshift unit secretary and 2-3 PCTs
depending on census. Nightshift has 2-3 PCTs depending on
census.
- Type of equipment: Welch Allyn dynamaps, Phillips telemetry,
Phillips MP2, Pyxis, Alaris pumps, Hill-Rom beds, iMobile devices,
MobiLab
- Documentation system: Meditech
- The PCU delivers highly individualized care to medical,
cardiac, and surgical complex patients requiring intermediate care
such as: Sepsis, stroke, myocardial infarction, angina, heart
failure, atrial fibrillation, tachycardia, heart blocks, post
cardiac catheterization, AKI, CKD, diabetes mellitus with
ketoacidosis, CVA, acute and chronic respiratory failure, GI bleed,
pneumonia, post-operative day one coronary artery bypass grafting,
post-operative day one aortic valve surgery, post thoracic surgery,
post neurosurgery, as well as other complex patients.
- Job Requirements
- Requested Skill Set: Cardiac/telemetry experience, and PCU
and/or critical care experience.
- Advanced skills needed: IV insertion, chest tube management,
DHT insertion/management, tracheostomy experience, CVC management,
EKG, Foley management, early patient mobility
- Procedures performed on unit: Foley placement, IV insertion,
wound vac management, DKA management, EKGs, DHT/NG placement,
patient ambulation, ADLs
- Certifications Required: BLS and ACLS
- Schedule Information
- Scheduling requirements: 3 weekend shifts per 4-week schedule.
Self-scheduling (within reason to allow balanced staffing). May
request days off as needed prior to schedule closing. Schedule will
be finalized 2 weeks in advance. Can accommodate block scheduling
for night shift.
- Floating policy: Travel RNs float first. We rotate floating,
and the oldest float date will float first.
- Patient Experience requirements: We have a heavy cardiac
patient population, and the CV surgery patients come to PCU when
they leave our ICU. We perform Q6H head-to-toe assessments and
chart each one fully. We do the usual PCU gtts - Dopamine,
Dobutrex, Nitro, Heparin, Cardizem, Lidocaine, Milrinone,
Amiodarone, Cardene, Labetolol, Insulin, and we also titrate
Precedex.
- Unit Specific Information
- We have a heavy cardiac patient population, and the CV surgery
patients come to PCU when they leave our ICU.
- You can also view the patient's chart through Patient Keeper on
your iMobile, which is handy when you are not in front of a
computer!
- We recently implemented MobiLab for the collection of any
specimens.
- Wound documentation can be performed on the iMobile device by
using the iPhone camera in the wound care app, and the photos
upload to the patient's chart.
- There are experienced RNs on both day and night shift, and RNs
on both shifts with ICU experience.
- Additional Details
- Dress Code: Navy scrubs
- Unit Guidelines/Policies: Will be provided.
- Awards/Recognition: PCU is very much a 'team player' unit. We
all work together to deliver exceptional care to our patients and
their families. The employees here are honest, and embody the HCA
vision to 'Care like family'. We are often recognized for our
positive atmosphere and excellent employee engagement.
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