Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit
Albany, NY
HonorVet Technologies
4x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Registered Nurse – Progressive Critical Care Unit

Facility: Albany Medical Center

Location: Albany, NY

Start Date: 9/21/2026

Duration: 13 weeks

Shift: Nights, 7:00 PM – 7:30 AM

Schedule: 4x12s; every other weekend

Patient Ratio: 3:1 average; 2:1 for higher-acuity assignments

Charting System: Epic — experience required

Float Required: Yes; to care areas with like patient populations

Call Requirement: Not specified

Note: Navy blue scrubs required. Competency test required within 24 hours of submission. 

Position Overview:

The Progressive Critical Care Unit provides specialized care to medically unstable and surgically complex adult patients, including trauma patients age 15 and older. Nurses care for high-acuity patients requiring frequent surveillance, assessment, intervention, advanced hemodynamic monitoring, and critical care therapies.

Job duties:

• Provide high-acuity nursing care to medically unstable medical, surgical, trauma, and neurological patients.
• Monitor cardiac rhythms, arterial lines, EVDs, hemodynamics, and other critical patient parameters.
• Manage vasoactive, sedative, anticoagulant, thrombolytic, and other high-risk medication infusions according to protocols.
• Provide respiratory support including HFNC, BiPAP, and CPAP while monitoring patients for respiratory deterioration.
• Perform and assist with EVD management, wound care, drains, vascular sheaths, EKOS, suctioning, and other critical care procedures.

Requirements:

License: Active RN license; eligible for New York practice

Experience: Minimum 2 years of experience; strong adult PCU or community hospital ICU experience preferred

Certifications: BLS, ACLS required; NIHSS preferred; PCCN or CCRN strongly encouraged

Other requirement: Epic experience required; competency test must be completed within 24 hours of submission

Unit Details:

Unit: D3N – Progressive Critical Care Unit

Patient Ratios: 3:1, with 2:1 assignments for higher-acuity patients

Patient Population: Adults 18+ and trauma patients 15+ with high-acuity medical, surgical, neurological, respiratory, endocrine, GI, orthopedic, and trauma conditions

Patient Diagnoses: Respiratory failure, sepsis, traumatic brain injury, spinal injury, stroke, heart failure, respiratory disturbances, electrolyte imbalance, GI bleeding, coagulopathy, renal disease, drug overdose, hemodynamic instability, complex trauma, and surgical complications.