Voca Healthcare is seeking a travel nurse RN PCU - Progressive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Show Low, Arizona.
Night shift
1-2 years of experience Tele, including experience in MedSurg acute care setting
- 18 beds - Telemetry with 6 PCU capable beds. all private rooms
- Floating: May float to all MS units
- Will house COVID patients if needed - mixed unit with temporary walls and air handling system
- 1 year of experience required - 2 years preferred-
Charge nurse 24/7 will take 0-2 patients when needed
- Nurse managers don't provide patient care, but they do rounds
- Support staff on unit: Tele techs, charge nurse, HUCs and PCTs- CNAs split the floor each taking up to 9 patients
- RNs nurse to patient ratios for are 1:4 and PCU/Stepdown is 1:3- Tele: Phillips monitors, have monitor tech room.
Nurses expected to validate monitor techs interpretation and document 4 hours or more frequent as needed.
We do Cardizem, amiodarone, bumex, Lasix, integrillin, octreotide, protonix- Vents; none
-- high flow o2 on COVID step down pts, pts home cpap- Hospitalist in house 24/7- No IV team- Resp Therapist 24/7- Pharmacy 24/7- Weekend requirement: Every other weekend (days Sat & Sun and nights Fri & Sat)- Orientation 2-3 days with preceptor - Common dx; AMI, Stroke/TIA's, Pnuemonia, Renal (dialysis) afib rvr, SIRS, DM
As a Voca Traveler, you will gain new clinical skills, visit amazing places and meet awesome healthcare professionals.
As a travel health professional, your experience and dedication to patient care is in high demand throughout the United States. Whether you are a veteran traveler looking for your next opportunity, or you are looking to travel for the first time, Voca is here to support you. Voca’s experienced and dedicated travel team works in concert with you every step of the way. Our long-standing partnerships with some of the most respected and recognized healthcare organizations in the country allow us to identify career opportunities to help you increase your knowledge and experience while working with some of the best physicians and healthcare professionals in the world. At Voca, we strongly believe a better career results in a happier you. We are here to help you find a position that is professionally and personally rewarding.