Tact Staff is seeking a travel nurse RN PCU - Progressive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Show Low, Arizona.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: PCU - Progressive Care Unit
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: ASAP
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours
- Employment Type: Travel
Nights
- 3x12s
- 36 hour guarantee with 3 cancellations
- 1-2 years of experience Tele, including experience in MedSurg acute care setting
- 18 beds - Telemetry with 6 PCU capable beds. all private rooms
- Will house COVID patients if needed - mixed unit with temporary walls and air handling system
- 1 year of experience required - 2 years preferred
- Charge nurse 24/7 will take 0-2 patients when needed
- Nurse managers don't provide patient care, but they do rounds
- Support staff on unit: Tele techs, charge nurse, HUCs and PCTs
- CNAs split the floor each taking up to 9 patients
- RNs nurse to patient ratios for are 1:4 and PCU/Stepdown is 1:3
- Tele: Phillips monitors, have monitor tech room. Nurses expected to validate monitor techs interpretation and document 4 hours or more frequent as needed. We do Cardizem, amiodarone, bumex, Lasix, integrillin, octreotide, protonix
- Vents; none high flow o2 on COVID step down pts, pts home cpap
- Hospitalist in house 24/7
- No IV team
- Resp Therapist 24/7
- Pharmacy 24/7
- Weekend requirement: Every other weekend (days Sat & Sun and nights Fri & Sat)
- Orientation 2-3 days with preceptor
- Common dx; AMI, Stroke/TIA's, Pnuemonia, Renal (dialysis) afib rvr, SIRS, DM
- Floating: May float to all MS units
Tact Medical Staffing Job ID . Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined. Posted job title: Registered Nurse - IMC/PCU/Stepdown
About Tact Staff
Our nurses choose Tact assignments because it provides the opportunity to take on new challenges in their careers while they travel across the United States and gain enriching experiences on a professional and personal level.
Our dedicated team of staffing consultants will work with you and be your advocate as you choose to embark on new assignments. Our team is committed to providing our nurses and allied professionals with the most rewarding healthcare assignments and choices at primer healthcare institutions nationwide. Let us handle the details; you choose the job and location that are right for you.
Be Adventurous, Make a Difference, Travel with Tact.
Be Adventurous - Becoming a travel nurse or allied professional is not only a professional adventure, but a personal adventure as well. It is an opportunity to challenge yourself, to explore a new place, and try amazing food
Make a Difference - Nurses and allied professionals make such a huge difference in so many lives. The care and compassion you show to your patients, does not go unnoticed. We know how important your jobs is, which is why we take our job as recruiters so seriously. Being able to place nurses and allied professionals in hospitals, where you are doing something as crucial as saving lives, is something we feel thankful to be able to do.
Travel with Tact - From the moment we receive your resume we begin trying to build a relationship with you. We know the importance of becoming your friend, before becoming your recruiter. Building friendly, yet professional relationships allows us to discover what you truly want and don't want in a travel assignment.
