PCU RN
Lees Summit, Missouri
Saint Luke's East - Lee's Summit

PCU Registered Nurse

Overview

• Travel/Contract role in Lees Summit, Missouri
• 13-week assignment
• Day shift: 3x12 hours, 6:45 to 19:15
• 36 hours per week
• Patient ratio: 1:5
• Daily census: 30
• Number of rooms: 30

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Missouri
• PCU - Progressive Care Unit (2 years of experience)
• PCU - Progressive Care Unit experience within the last year
• BLS issued by American Heart Association
• NIHSS
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Long Term Acute Care experience
• Regular floating may be required between departments, units, and facilities as needed
• Holiday shifts and Charge RN assignments as needed per unit
• 8 weekend shifts in the 6-week schedule period, with a combination of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday shifts
• Home address must be at least 75 miles from the facility
• No more than 7 days of RTO

Preferred

• ACLS

Skills

• MS/Tele
• Telemetry
• Cardiac Telemetry
• Interpretation and management of dysrhythmias
• Telemetry monitoring on the unit
• Rapid Response Teams
• Feeding tube care and management
• Pre/Post Hemodialysis Management
• Renal failure
• Blood Product Administration
• Central line care/management
• Peripheral Line Care/Management
• PICC line management
• Starting IVs
• Heparin Protocols
• Manage Cardiac drips, no titration
• CVA
• Pre/Post neurosurgery
• Surgical drains
• High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)
• Interpretation of ABGs
• Nasal Cannula
• Oxygen face masks
• Non-invasive airway management
• Isolation Precautions
• Wound Care/Wound Vac

Preferred Skills

• ER Holding
• Neuro Stepdown
• PCU/DOU/IMC/Stepdown
• Accessing Ports
• Manage Vasoactive drips, no titration
• PCA
• Traumatic Brain injury
• Ortho trauma
• Total Joint Replacements
• Chest tubes-Emerson/Pleur-evac
• External CPAP/BIPAP
• Tracheostomy Management

Additional Notes

• Charge RN assignments may be needed per unit
• EPIC is the charting system