Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit - $2,290 per week

Company: St Michael Medical Center
Location: Silverdale
Posted on: February 2, 2025

Job Description:

• Certification Details
• BLS
• ACLS
• NIHSS
  • Job Details
  • Cardiac PCU 5th Floor
  • Unit: Cardiac PCU (5th Floor)
  • # of beds: 24
  • Ratios: 1:3-4 for PCU level acuity
  • Common diagnoses/Types of patients: TAVR, Post Caths- TR bands and fem stops, Temporary/ transvenous pacemakers, VATS, lobectomies, POD 4-5 CABG, Thoracic- fem pops, etc.
  • Minimum of 2 years experience in PCU
  • Charge Nurse/House Supervisor: Yes, charge nurse
  • Are RNs required to titrate drips? Yes
  • Common titratable &/or set rate drips: nitroglycerin, heparin, cardizem, nicardipine, amiodarone, insulin, dopamine, esmolol, labetolol, milrinone, argatroban, aggrostat
  • Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: MD availability should be hospitalist not intensivist
  • RT in ICU 24/7: RT dedicated to unit
  • Is there tele on this unit? Monitor Techs? RNs read strips? Yes. Offsite central monitoring. Nurses are required to watch the monitors and measure and interpret their own strips.
    • Job Requirements
    • BLS & ACLS required
    • NIHSS, CRRN, PCCN preferred not required
    • Experience: Minimum of 2 years experience in PCU
    • Are RNs required to titrate drips? Yes
      • Schedule Information
      • Shifts: 07-1930, 1900-0730
      • 6 weeks at a time
      • Self scheduling, balanced then reviewed by the manager
      • Weekend Requirement: EOW weekend at minimum, Sat, Sun, Mon have high needs
      • Holiday Requirement: at least 1 major holiday during the holiday season
      • Is there a call or standby requirement? No
      • Floating Requirements: Within Skill set, traveler may float to 4th floor but take a PCU load
        • Unit Specific Information
        • Scrub Color/Dress Code: Any professional color scrubs
        • Unit/Department specific orientation: Can test out of Epic if experienced within the last year. (EPIC experience preferred). 8 hour Epic class in Tacoma in a centralized education department along with an 8 hour onboarding and education day, tours etc and then 1 Shift with a preceptor.
          • Additional Details
          • Region III: Primary to St. Michael Medical Center but if needed, travelers will be required to float throughout Region Three: St Anthony Hospital - Gig Harbor, WA; St. Michael Medical Center - Silverdale, WA.
          • Additional $20/hr when floated within Region III that's not the primary facility.
          • Medical Solutions auto deducts the 1.75 WA state tax - you are able to re-add that back in.
          • Looking for candidate with a flexible, team player mentality.

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