Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit - $1,877 per week

Company: Piedmont Henry Hospital
Location: Stockbridge
Posted on: November 1, 2024

Job Description:

• Certification Details
• Certifications Required: BLS, ACLS, NIH/NIHSS
  • Job Details
  • 36 or 48 Hour Guarantee!
  • Minimum Experience: 2 years; 1st Timers not accepted
  • Patient Population: Adults to Geriatrics
  • General Skills and Work Setting Requirements: Patient Diagnoses include but not limited to COVID, Respiratory Failure, DKA, Renal Failure, Hypertension Emergency, CHF, Post carotid endarterectomy, post surgical patients requiring close observation, Sepsis, Stroke (NIHSS certified); manage and titrate drips to include amiodarone, Cardizem, precede, cardene, labetalol, dopamine, dobutamine, insulin, Nitro; Manage equipment like Glucommander, Trach to Vents, Bipaps, High flows, salters, Art lines, bedside cardiac monitors; Dialysis is done at the bedside by dialysis nurse
  • Nurses are able to facilitate rapid sequence intubation, manage patients on sedation and ETTs, and low dose pressors if ICU overflow is needed.
  • Ratio / Census: 1:4; 16 Beds with average daily census of 16
  • Unit Systems: Epic, Pyxis, SBAR
  • Scrub Color: Navy Blue
  • RTO: MAX 7 days
  • Weekends: Every other weekend
  • Floating: Float to Cardiac Tele unit and Med Surg Pulmonary unit; Can also float to ICU if there is experience or if the IMCU patients in ICU are holds
  • Call Requirements: None
  • Holidays: Work requirements for major holidays
    • Job Requirements
    • Minimum Experience: 2 years; 1st Timers not accepted
    • Certifications Required: BLS, ACLS, NIH/NIHSS
      • Schedule Information
      • 36 or 48 Hour Guarantee!
      • RTO: MAX 7 days
      • Weekends: Every other weekend
      • Floating: Yes, per hospital needs
      • Holidays: If one major holiday falls in assignment, expected to work; If two, expected to work both; If three, expected to work two of the holidays
        • Unit Specific Information
        • Unit Details: 16 Beds with average daily census of 16
        • Unit Systems: Epic, Pyxis, SBAR
        • Scrub Color: Navy Blue
          • Additional Details
          • Compliance: Full compliance required to start on time; if not compliant in time the push back is 2 weeks due to bi-weekly orientation schedule.
          • Pre-Screen Unit - Candidate will be reviewed by clinical to determine fit, sent to the manager for final decision. Clinical screens will be sent on case-by-case basis.

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