Progressive Care Unit RN
San Diego, CA
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Progressive Care Unit. The role provides individualized, age-specific care to an assigned group of patients and families using the nursing process. Responsibilities include promoting quality outcomes, managing complex or high-risk clinical situations, and advocating for safe, therapeutic, and satisfying care.

Job Details

• Schedule: Night shift, 12-hour shifts, with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications:
  • Registered Nurse license in California.
  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and NIH certifications.
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN).
  • At least three years of recent experience working in a Registered Nurse role, including at least two years of recent experience in a specialty area.
  • Proficiency in patient care, individualized assessment, nursing process, safe and therapeutic care, and management of complex, new, unusual, or high-risk clinical situations.
• Additional Information:
  • Provides individualized assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of safe, therapeutic, and efficient patient care.
  • Promotes quality outcomes and collaborates with or seeks additional resources for complex or high-risk clinical situations.
  • Serves as a patient and family advocate.
  • Requires competency in medication administration, intravenous therapy, vascular access care, blood product administration, subcutaneous insulin injections, wound therapy, noninvasive ventilation, enteral and parenteral nutrition, pain assessment and management, and patient-controlled analgesia pumps.
  • Requires competency in chest tube care, tracheostomy care, urinary catheter care, hemodialysis, noninvasive monitoring, electrocardiogram monitoring, restraints, line reconciliation, and care of central venous access devices and midline catheters.
  • Requires knowledge of hand hygiene, personal protective equipment procedures, infection prevention practices, and effective communication using ISBARR.

Benefits

The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:

• Private housing or generous housing allowance
• Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
• Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
• Competitive salaries
• Referral bonuses
• Travel reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Direct deposit/free checking
• Unlimited free CE credits