Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit
Winston-Salem, NC
TalentBurst, Inc
4x12 hrs

Job Title: Registered Nurse – Resource Team Job
Job Description
Career/Job Level: Last Updated:

Primary Purpose
The Registered Nurse – Resource Team provides comprehensive nursing care through skillful assessment, diagnosis, outcomes
identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation in accordance with facility or department policies, procedures, and/or
protocols under the supervision of the nursing leader. The RN Clinical Nurse/RT assists in maintaining a safe work environment and
performs all related job responsibilities in a safe manner. The Registered Nurse – Resource Team maintains clinical and professional
competency as appropriate to the population of patients served.
Must be available to provide nursing services in all patient care areas of expertise and knowledge, at all elected facilities.

A registered nurse's practice is guided by the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements.

Major Responsibilities
• Collects pertinent data and information relative to the healthcare consumer's health or the situation.
• Analyzes the assessment data to determine the actual or potential diagnoses, problem, and issues.
• Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.
• Develops a plan that prescribes strategies to attain expected, measurable outcomes.
• Implements the identified plan, coordinates care delivery, and employs strategies to promote health and a safe
environment.
• Delegates elements of care to appropriate healthcare workers in accordance with any applicable legal or
policy parameters or principles.
• Evaluates progress toward attainment of goals and outcomes.
• Practices ethically.
• Practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
• Communicates effectively in all areas of practice.
• Collaborates with healthcare consumers and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing
practice.
• Leads within the professional practice setting and the profession.
• Seeks knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice and promotes futuristic
thinking.
• Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
• Contributes to quality nursing practice.
• Evaluates one's own and others' nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and
guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations.
• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan, provide, and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are
safe, effective, and fiscally responsible.
• Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
• Participate in committees, shared governance, or facility decision making activities, developing and nurturing
research to positively affect clinical outcomes and promotion.
• Models the Atrium Health mission, vision, and value.
• Supports and contributes to the Patient Centered Care Philosophy by understanding that every
teammate is a Caregiver whose role is to meet the needs of the patient.

Minimum Job Requirements
Education

Graduate from an accredited School of Professional Nursing.

Certification / License
Valid, active unencumbered Nursing license approved by the Georgia Licensing Board for GA locations and
Alabama Licensing Board for AL locations.
BLS required.
ACLS required.

Work Experience

2 years of nursing experience in specialty area required.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

Patient Population Served
Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development and demonstrates the skills and competency appropriate
to the ages, culture, developmental stages, and special needs of the patient population served.
Protected Health Information

• Will limit access to protected health information (PHI) to the information reasonably necessary to do the job.
• Will share information only on a need-to-know basis for work purposes.
• Access to verbal, written and electronic PHI for this job has been determined based on job level and job responsibility

within the organization. Computerized access to PHI for this job has been determined as described above and is
controlled via user ID and password.

Machines, Tools, and Equipment
All related medical equipment and supplies.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions
Work requires walking, standing, sitting, lifting, reaching, stooping, bending, pushing, and pulling. Must be able to lift
and support the weight of 35 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment, and supplies. Must speak English in good,
understandable terms. Intact sense of sight, hearing, smell, touch. Finger dexterity.
Critical thinking and ability to concentrate. Must be able to respond quickly to changes in patient and/or unit conditions.
Physical Abilities Testing required.

Preferred Job Requirements
Education

BSN preferred

Certification / License

Experience

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
Additional education, training, certifications, or experience may be required within the department by the nurse leader.



SimpliFi Job Status SimpliFi Job Status Notes
Backfill for J Meadows Shift
12hr Night Shift - 48 Shift Information
1830 start time SimpliFi Clinical Interviewing- Yes/No
- On Call, Call Back Requirements
No Call Weekend Rotation
Every Other Holiday Requirements
Travelers will work 75% of holidays Floating Requirements
Within the cardiology division first, then to any med-surg unit within the hospital. Centralize telemetry. 5 Facility Float Clause - Emergency Only JOB DESCRIPTION

RN - PCU

● About Facility:

· 1 Medical Center Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27157

· 885 licensed beds

· Level 1 Trauma Designation

· Teaching Hospital: Yes, Academic Medical Center

· Chest Pain Center

· Stroke Center

● Unit Information:

· Beds: 28

▪ Average census 26

· Minimum Years of Experience required? 1 year of experience in Cardiology

· Will you accept a first-time traveler? Yes

● Patient Types/Common Diagnoses:

· Cardiac PCU – Acute Coronary Syndrome, Heart failure, NSTEMI/STEMI, Chest Pain r/o, post cardiac cath (PCI or without stent), post EP procedures – pacemaker insertion, ICD, ablation; Arrhythmia management, Vascular – Peripheral Artery Disease, AAA Repair, DVT/PE

● Patient Ratios:

· RN: 1:4-5

· CNA: 1:11-14

● Required Licensure & Certifications:

· BLS, ACLS, NIHSS

● Skills required:

· Cardiac rhythm interpretation; Cardiac post-procedural experience

· REQUIRED to be comfortable titrating gtts – Argatroban, Digoxin, Diltiazem, Dobutamine, Dofetilde, Dopamine, Esmolol, Lasix, Insulin, Labetalol, Lidocaine, Milrinone, Nicardipine, Nitroglycerine, Sotalol, Tirofiban

● Support within the Department:

· CNA: Supports the RN by obtaining VS and blood glucose checks; assists with hourly safety rounds and ADLs

· Receptionist/HUC

· Charge nurse: may or may not have patient assignment

· Phlebotomy? Yes, peripheral blood draws

· No IV/VAT team

· RT 24/7? Yes, available – will need to page for assistance when needed

· Hospitalist 24/7

· Intensivist 24/7

· Telemetry monitoring/tech - nurses responsible for monitoring/verifying strips - once a shift

● Technology/Equipment:

· EMR: Epic

· IV Pump: Alaris

· Med dispensing: Omnicell

· Monitors: Philips

· Unit specific equipment:

● Floating: If yes, where?

· Within the cardiology division first, then to any med-surg unit within the hospital. Centralize telemetry.

· 5 Facility Float Clause - Emergency Only

● Orientation (facility and unit) :

· NEO

· 2 days departmental

● Other notes:

· Scrub Color: Royal Blue

· Parking: Free, on site

· Unit Culture: Family atmosphere. #1 expectation is teamwork.

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