Registered Nurse - PCU

Cardiac Medical Progressive Care Unit (PCU) RN

Must have Cardiac PCU experience & be comfortable with 1:5 ratios. 3x12s, nights, 7p-7:30a. Weekend rotation, holidays as needed. Staff are scheduled for a 6-week period via a self-assisted schedule through Optilink. Staff are distributed within the schedule based on departmental need and based on patient work intensity, skill mix, and previous assignments. Minimum 2 years of experience required. First-time travelers - OK! Previous charge RN experience preferred. BLS, ACLS required. NIH preferred. Ratios 1:4 with drips/bipap, otherwise mostly 1:5. EPIC. Use of rapid response teams preferred. Nurse assistants 24/7. RN secretary 7a-11p.

Required skills: Interpretation and management of dysrhythmias, telemetry - on the unit monitoring, pre/post cardiac cath, peripheral line care and management, PICC line management, manage cardiac drips - no titration, manage vasoactive drips - no titration, procedural sedation administration, titrate cardiac drips, titrate vasoactive drips, chest tubes - Emerson, Pleur-evac, external CPAP BiPAP, tracheostomy management. Focus on the cardiac patient (congestive heart failure, acute coronary syndrome, arrhythmias, pre and post cardiac catheterization with and without intervention, rule out myocardial infarction, arrhythmias, syncope, pacemaker placement). Secondary focus on respiratory problems (ex. COPD, pneumonia, BiPAP).

2A is a 30-private bed Cardiac Medical Progressive Care department that provides care 7 days a week 24 hours a day. Rooms are remotely monitored by the Centralized Cardiac Monitoring Department (CCMD).