Registered Nurse – PCU
Lexington, KY
Amergis Healthcare Staffing, Inc.-Allied
3x12 hrs, Nights

 Progressive Care Unit RN, as a professional practitioner, assumes the responsibility and accountability for delivering patient care to telemetry/progressive care patients. The Progressive Care Unit RN demonstrates the ability to make clinical judgments in an effective and efficient manner with supervision. This individual employs critical thinking and performance ability in the coordinator of patient care, consistently performs according to nursing standards, and is accountable in managing patient care and assisting others in the management of patient care.  The Progressive Care Unit RN is sometimes also called a step-down nurse, cardiac stepdown, neuro stepdown, surgical stepdown and in some medical centers, the PCU is also known as a transition or intermedia unit. 

Minimum Requirements:

Caring for Med/ Surg patients. 

Must have 2 years work at a level one trauma facility. 

BLS ACLS NIHSS required- Must have PC/AC/Tele/ Med Surg experience.

 Local travelers within 100 miles are not accepted at this facility.

KY or compact license.

 Every other weekend required. 

Float Requirement to other universal/progressive areas.