PCU RN
Greenville, North Carolina
ECU Health Medical Center

PCU RN

Overview

• LongTerm contract
• Greenville, North Carolina
• 13 weeks
• Virtual interview
• Start date: every Monday
• Shift: 12N
• Shift options: day, night, rotating day/night, rotating weekends
• Self-scheduling
• 64-bed flex unit (intermediate and general)
• Staffing ratio: 1:4 RN-to-patient
• Travel assignment
• 80-mile local radius rule

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in North Carolina
• PCU - Progressive Care Unit (1 year of experience)
• PCU - Progressive Care Unit experience within the last year
• BLS
• ACLS
• NIHSS
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Experience with cardiac drips
• Ability to read and interpret EKG strips
• Experience with Epic

Preferred

• EPIC familiarity

Patient Population / Clinical Focus

• NSTEMI
• Acute coronary syndrome
• Cath lab with coronary intervention
• Chest pain
• Pacemakers
• Implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICD)
• Bedside procedures including cardioversions and transesophageal echocardiograms (TEE)
• Congestive heart failure
• Cardiac drips and titration of drips
• Overflow medicine patients including diabetes, hypertension, pneumonia, sepsis, and GI bleeds
• Cardiac medicine and cardiovascular subspecialties
• Myocardial infarction, including S/P STEMI and NSTEMI
• S/P cardiac arrest
• High risk cardiac OB
• Cardiac arrhythmia management, including medication and device
• Coronary artery disease management, including pre/post-cardiac cath with/without intervention and pre-cardiac surgery
• Acute heart failure management, including medication and device such as LVAD

Unit Details

• Patients may require frequent cardiac assessments and collaborative evaluations to manage intermediate care status
• Continuity of care is facilitated through ICU transition for optimization of clinical outcomes
• Registered nurses provide care with the nursing assistant and medical team
• The charge nurse does not have a patient assignment