Step Down Unit RN
Henderson, Kentucky
Methodist Hospital

Step Down Unit Registered Nurse

Role

Step Down Unit Registered Nurse

Location

Henderson, Kentucky

Contract

• Travel assignment
• 13 weeks
• 12-hour nights
• Guaranteed 36 hours per week; may accept 48-hour contracts upon request

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Kentucky
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• PCU - Progressive Care Unit (2 years of experience)
• PCU - Progressive Care Unit experience within the last year
• One completed travel assignment
• BLS issued by American Heart Association
• ACLS issued by American Heart Association
• NIHSS
• Tele interpretation
• Initiate and titrate insulin drips
• Initiate and titrate heparin drips
• Initiate and titrate cardiac drips
• Experience with Epic

Preferred Qualifications

• PIV insertion
• Stable home vents
• Chest tube/indwelling drain management
• CBI
• Stable drips such as lasix and protonix
• Blood product administration
• Continuous BiPap
• Drain management
• Neutropenic precautions
• Hard worker
• Resilient and manages change well
• Social candidate

Unit Details

• Stepdown/PCU patient population
• 10-bed SDU
• 15-bed Tele unit
• First to float within skillset
• May float to Deaconess Newburgh campus and Deaconess Gateway campus
• Mid-shift float within the same campus is possible
• Every third weekend
• Every other holiday
• Teaching hospital; may require precepting students and new hires
• Navy blue scrubs
• No competing health systems or agency logos