Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit - COVID19 - $2,855 per week

Company: PHP
Location: Redding
Posted on: March 6, 2025

Job Description:

PHP is seeking a travel nurse RN PCU - Progressive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Redding, California. Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: PCU - Progressive Care Unit
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: 03/17/2025
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, nights
• Employment Type: Travel Required Certifications: ACLS, BLS, COVID Vaccine
  Charting System: Cerner
  36 hours per week
  Years of Experience: 2 Years
  
  The PCU is a stepdown unit from the ICU. It will be a 3:1 nurse patient ration for closer monitoring of the ICU patients that don't quite meet the tele level of care.
  -RN's should have experience in a ICU stepdown or PCU unit. Training is telemetry. Training in high risk medications
  
  Unit PCU/Step-down (critical care stepdown)
  # Beds 14 beds/7 rooms
  Nurse:Patient Ratios: 1:3
  Required Certifications (i.e., BLS, ACLS?) : BLS, ACLS
  Common diagnoses/Types of patients: Stepdown patients from ICU, TBI/trauma patients, major surgery, CEA, sepsis
  Experience or 'Must have' skills: Arterial and CVP pressure lines; titrating pressors; precedex; trach & stable vented patients
  Are RNs required to titrate drips? Yes
  Common titratable &/or set rate drips: Precedex, dopamine, dobutamine, levophed
  Are there nurse aids on this unit/Ratios: 1 aid most of the time for all 14 beds
  Shifts & Scheduling (Do you allow self-scheduling? Block scheduling?): 12Hr shifts starting at 645am/pm. 3 shifts/week. Schedules made out about 2-3 weeks in advance initially and then try to schedule them out 9 weeks in advance. Self-scheduling for the most part.
  Weekend Requirements: 4 weekend shifts in a 4 week schedule,Days - Sat/Sun, Nightsw - Fri/Sat
  #429444 About PHP At PHP, you are always the first focus! For us, it isn't simply about hiring staff, it's about building a solid family of healthcare professionals by expanding their premium employment opportunities, guiding them through every step of the process, and providing them with the highest compensation and best benefit packages in the industry. With over 20 years of experience, travel contracts in all 50 states and internationally, and many industry awards and recognitions, Premier Healthcare Professionals focuses on quality, not quantity. That is our commitment!

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