Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit - $2,303 per week

Company: Cynet Health
Location: Knoxville
Posted on: May 27, 2023

Job Description:

Cynet Health is seeking a travel nurse RN PCU - Progressive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Knoxville, Tennessee.Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: PCU - Progressive Care Unit
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: ASAP
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, nights
• Employment Type: TravelPosition Summary:
  • A Registered Nurse provides professional nursing services and patient care in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings.
  • Progressive care nursing jobs involve care for patients requiring close monitoring and frequent assessment, but who aren`t unstable enough to need ICU care.
  • PCU nurses monitor cardiac and other critical vital signs and detect any changes, thereby enabling intervention of life-threatening or emergency situations.RN Progressive care unit Duties and Responsibilities:
    • Provides nursing care to critically ill patients.
    • Heart attack, defibrillator or pacemaker implant or other cardiac condition.
    • Stroke.
    • Cancer or orthopedic surgery.
    • Severe pneumonia.
    • Epsis or other serious or systemic infection.
    • Initiates and revises the patient`s plan of care based on continuing assessments.
    • Includes patient teaching and discharge planning in overall plan of care.
    • Incorporates clinical and technical aspects of care with nursing actions and interventions in accordance with established policies, standards and procedures.
    • Documents nursing interventions and patient response according to hospital policy.
    • Evaluates effectiveness of nursing interventions and methods of implementation. Practices within the limits of the state's Nurse Practice Act and health care facility and nursing administrative policies.
    • Supervises ancillary personnel in their performance of assigned job-related duties.
    • Ensures patient confidentiality and the rights of the patient.
    • Maintains and updates skills needed for excellence in patient care.
    • Progressive care nursing jobs involve care for patients requiring close monitoring and frequent assessment, but who aren't unstable enough to need ICU care.
    • PCU nurses monitor cardiac and other critical vital signs and detect any changes, thereby enabling intervention of life-threatening or emergency situations.
    • Many PCU patients receive complex medications that may require titration based on the patients vital signs.
    • The PCU nurse is sometimes also called a step-down nurse and the PCU is also known as cardiac step-down, medical step-down, neuro step-down, surgical step-down and ER holding.Minimum Job Requirements:
      • Graduate of an accredited school of Nursing, with current licensure in state practicing in good standing in the state of practice
      • Evidence of current BLS and ACLS credential mandatory.
      • Evidence of Minimum Two years of current hospital experience.Cynet Health Job ID #19069233. Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36.0 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined.

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