Registered Nurse - Stepdown

Registered Nurse - Stepdown

Join a Progressive Care/Stepdown Unit as a Registered Nurse (RN) for a 13-week assignment working night shifts from 7:00 PM – 7:30 AM with 36 guaranteed hours per week. This role provides specialized care for patients requiring close monitoring and advanced nursing interventions, including post-surgical patients, cardiac patients, stroke patients, and those requiring complex medical management. The RN will work collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, patient-centered care in a fast-paced stepdown environment.

Requirements:

• 2 years of RN Stepdown/Progressive Care experience required
• Telemetry monitoring experience required
• Cerner EMR experience required
• Active Michigan RN License required
• BLS Certification (AHA) required
• ACLS Certification (AHA) required
• Strong critical care assessment and clinical judgment skills required
• Experience caring for cardiac, post-surgical, and high-acuity medical patients required
• Ability to work every other weekend required

Responsibilities include continuous telemetry monitoring, performing comprehensive patient assessments, identifying and responding to changes in patient condition, administering medications and IV therapies, titrating cardiac and vasoactive drips as ordered, monitoring post-operative and cardiac patients, providing care for stroke and neurological patients requiring frequent assessments, managing ventilated or high-acuity patients within scope, collaborating with physicians and interdisciplinary care teams, educating patients and families on diagnoses and treatment plans, maintaining accurate documentation in Cerner, coordinating discharge planning, responding to emergencies, and delivering safe, evidence-based nursing care in a progressive care/stepdown setting.