Progressive Care Unit RN
Tacoma, WA
Cross Country Nurses
4x12 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Progressive Care Unit (PCU) position with rotating day and night shifts and responsibility for floating across progressive care, telemetry, medical-surgical, and Emergency Department holding areas. The role provides care for patients with cardiac, medical, surgical, neurological, trauma, and respiratory conditions while practicing within the applicable scope of practice. The position requires strong telemetry competency, clinical assessment skills, and the ability to adapt to multiple patient-care settings.

Job Details

• Schedule: 12-hour shifts from 7:00 AM to 7:30 PM or 7:00 PM to 7:30 AM, with a minimum of 48 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications:
  • Minimum of 1 year of progressive care or comparable experience.
  • Progressive Care Unit and telemetry competency.
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), and National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification.
  • Experience with intravenous medication titration, cardiac rhythm interpretation, bilevel positive airway pressure management, ostomies, drains, tracheostomies, chest tubes, and lumbar drains.
  • Electronic medical record experience.
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Previous float pool experience.
  • Strong progressive care and telemetry background for first-time travelers.
  • Transradial band management experience.
• Float: Float rotation may be required.
• Additional Information:
  • Float assignments may include progressive care, telemetry, medical-surgical, and Emergency Department holding areas.
  • Patient populations may include cardiac stepdown, cardiac observation, post-cardiac procedures, chest pain observation, respiratory compromise, sepsis, renal failure, bleeding disorders, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, orthopedic conditions, and strokes.
  • Typical patient ratios are 1:4 in progressive care and 1:56 in medical-surgical assignments.
  • Departmental support includes Certified Nursing Assistants, charge nurses without patient assignments, hospitalists, respiratory therapists, and on-call cardiac and specialty physicians.
  • Responsibilities include completing whiteboards, documenting hourly rounding, providing bedside reports, and documenting pain assessments before and after pain medication administration.
  • Medication safety practices include treating saline flushes as medication, securing medications in locked storage, and completing two-nurse verification when wasting controlled medications.
  • Weekend rotation is generally every other weekend, with occasional back-to-back weekends.
  • No on-call requirement is listed.
  • Orientation includes general, unit, and light-unit orientation, along with telemetry competency validation.
  • Scheduling is provided in three-week increments, with schedules issued 710 days before the schedule begins.

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