PCU Registered Nurse
Anchorage, AK
Access Healthcare
3x12 hrs, Nights

Job Opportunity: Registered Nurse - PCU

Location

• Anchorage, Alaska

Employment Type

• Travel/Contract

Contract Length

• 13 weeks

Start Date

• ASAP

Shift Details

• Night shift, 3 shifts per week, 12 hours each (7:00 PM to 7:30 AM)
• Guaranteed 60 hours per 2 weeks (may be called off for 1 shift per 2 weeks)
• Weekend coverage may be more frequent than every other weekend, based on staffing needs

Unit Information

• Stepdown unit from ICU with diverse patient populations across multiple disciplines
• Patient ratios: 1 RN to 4 patients, 1 CNA to 6 patients
• Utilizes a Co-Care/Virtual Nursing Model: bedside RN, virtual RN, and CNA per patient
• Virtual RN supports admissions, discharges, rounding, education, care plans, and safety rounds remotely
• Floating within scope to lower acuity units, renal care, neuro, and medical-surgical units as needed

Patient Population

• Approximately 30% cardiac patients (CHF, MI, post-TAVR/MVR, pacemakers, arrhythmias, ACS)
• Respiratory patients including COVID, flu, COPD, asthma exacerbations, tracheostomy (>24h), chronic home ventilators
• Skilled in high flow nasal cannula and BIPAP
• Overflow includes neuro and renal patients
• Complex medical-surgical cases requiring higher monitoring (e.g., alcohol withdrawal, GI bleeds)

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Alaska
• Minimum 1 year of PCU (Progressive Care Unit) experience within the last year
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Certifications required:

  • BLS issued by American Heart Association or Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation
  • ACLS
  • NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS)