Progressive Care Unit - PCU RN - Travel Nurse

Progressive Care Unit - PCU RN - Travel Nurse at Travel Nurse Across America summary:

This travel nurse position is for a Progressive Care Unit (PCU) RN in Morehead City, NC, requiring 1-2 years of acute care experience. The role involves close monitoring and frequent assessment of patients who need more care than a general ward but less than ICU, including medication administration and use of specialized monitoring equipment. The nurse must handle physical demands, manage stress, and care for a diverse patient population with complex medical needs.

We're looking for Progressive Care Unit RNs for an immediate travel nurse opening in Morehead City, NC. The right RN should have 1-2 years recent acute care experience. Read below for more requirements.

As a PCU Travel Nurse, you will care for patients who require close monitoring and frequent assessment, but aren't unstable enough to need ICU care. Progressive Care Unit RNs will utilize computer equipment to monitor cardiac and other vital information, detecting any changes and thereby enabling intervention of life-threatening or emergency situations. Close observation is necessary as many PCU patients receive a significant amount of complex medications, sometimes through an intravenous line that may need to be adjusted or titrated.

The PCU RN is sometimes also called a step-down nurse, and the PCU is also known as cardiac stepdown, medical stepdown, neuro stepdown, surgical stepdown and ER holding.

As a PCU Travel Nurse, you should be prepared to perform the following tasks:

• Provide basic bedside care; stabilize critical cardiac patients.
• Change dressings, insert catheters and start IVs.
• Prepare, administer and record prescribed medication, reporting any adverse reactions to treatment.
• Monitor and adjust specialized equipment used on patients, and interpret and record electronic displays.
• Initiate corrective action whenever information from monitoring equipment shows adverse symptomatology.

Keywords:

Progressive Care Unit RN, PCU Nurse, Travel Nurse, Acute Care Nurse, Cardiac Stepdown Nurse, Step-down Unit Nurse, IV Therapy, Patient Monitoring, ACLS Certified, BLS Certified