Progressive Care Unit RN
Columbia, MO
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Progressive Care Unit position providing care for medically complex, surgical, and occasional neurological patients in a stepdown setting. The role requires critical care expertise, vasoactive drip titration, advanced line management, airway care, and cardiac monitoring skills.

Job Details

• Schedule: Day shift, 12-hour shifts, 36 hours per week; every other weekend required.
• Required Qualifications: Minimum of 2 years of critical care experience; required skills include intravenous insertion, peripherally inserted central catheter and central line management, vascular device access and care, dialysis fistula care and management, arterial line management, continuous positive airway pressure and bilevel positive airway pressure support, tracheostomy care, epidural and patient-controlled analgesia pump management, feeding tube care, and wound vacuum management.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience in both intensive care unit and Progressive Care Unit settings; central venous pressure monitoring; obtaining 12-lead electrocardiograms; sheath removal; cardioversion and defibrillation.
• Float: Float rotation may be required.
• Additional Information:
  • Care may include surgical, medical, and neurological patients.
  • Vasoactive drip titration may include neosynephrine, amiodarone, and diltiazem.
  • Common equipment includes bladder scanners, intravenous pumps, patient-controlled analgesia pumps, sequential compression devices, continuous positive airway pressure and bilevel positive airway pressure devices, high-flow oxygen systems, and heated high-flow therapy systems.
  • Typical nurse-to-patient ratio is 1:3 and is not guaranteed.

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