Float Pool RN - MedSurg, Telemetry, PCU
Prescott, Arizona
Yavapai Regional Medical Center-West Campus

Job Opportunity: RN Float Pool (MedSurg, Tele, PCU) - Arizona

Location

• City: Prescott, Arizona

Job Description

• Float between PCU, Telemetry, and Med Surg units.
• Care for inpatients including those holding in the Emergency Department.
• Units include East and West campuses with various patient populations (ICU, stepdown, MedSurg, Tele).
• Nurse-to-patient ratios:

  • PCU: 1:4
  • MedSurg/Telemetry: 1:5-6

Required Experience

• Minimum 2 years experience in Med Surg and Telemetry combined.
• Minimum 1 year experience specifically in PCU.

Required Certifications & Licenses

• Current Arizona RN license.
• ACLS and BLS certifications.
• Must pass a dysrhythmia exam with a minimum score of 80% within two attempts prior to contract signing.

Clinical Skills & Responsibilities

• Comfortable titrating drips such as Heparin, Cardizem, Amiodarone, Nitro, Dopamine, Dobutamine, and Insulin.
• Ability to interpret cardiac monitor strips (RNs read strips; monitor techs present on PCU and MedSurg Tele).
• Experience caring for geriatric, orthopedic, post-procedural cardiac patients (post MI, post cardiac cath, CABG post-op days 3-4).
• Use of respiratory equipment including CPAP, BiPAP, and heated high flow oxygen in PCU and MedSurg.
• Work with nurse aides who assist on the units.
• Charge nurses present but do not take patient assignments.

Scheduling & Work Environment

• Shifts: 12-hour shifts, 7am-7pm (AM and PM).
• Schedule published 6 weeks in advance for 4-week blocks.
• Night shift may allow block scheduling.
• Weekend requirement: every other weekend.
• Holiday coverage included in permanent staff rotation.
• No call or standby requirements.
• Unit assignments communicated by text message 2 hours before shift start.
• Travel between campuses is approximately 20-25 minutes.
• Dress code: solid color professional scrubs; transitioning to navy scrubs per Dignity guidelines.

Orientation

• 8-hour general hospital orientation day.
• 12-hour orientation shifts on West MedTele and PCU units.
• East campus orientation similar but smaller.

Contract Length

• 13 weeks

Prior Travel Experience

• Not explicitly required.

Note: Candidates must not have worked full time, part time, or PRN at any facility associated with CommonSpirit (including CHI and Dignity) within the past year due to radius restrictions.