Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit - $1,908 per week
Company: Parkridge Medical Center
Location: Chattanooga
Posted on: September 12, 2024
Job Description:
- Certification Details
- General information
- Certifications Required: BLS and ACLS
- Job Details
- Specialty: RN
- Employment Type: Travel
- Unit: Progressive Care Unit
- 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
- 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
- Schedule Information
- Number of Beds: 29
- Patient Ratios: 4:1
- 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.
- Unit Specific Information
- 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
- 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.
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