Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit - $2,233 per week at Health Creighton University Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68197
About the Job
- Required certs: ACLS, BLS
- If you hang chemo you need to be chemo certified but not required to work the floor
Certification Details
- A main Med Center in Eastern Nebraska is looking for PCU RN's. BLS, ACLS, and NIHSS are required. 13 Week contract, 36 hours.
Job Details
- BLS, ACLS, and NIHSS are required
- Must receive a 90% to pass exam or they will be terminated
- Experience: 1 year required, ok with first time travelers
- Charge experience required, minimum 1 year
- RN's may need to titrate drips: insulin occasionally, cardizem
- Are RNs required to titrate drips: insulin occasionally, cardizem
Job Requirements
- Shifts: 12 hour
- Shift times: 7a-7p, 7a-3p, 3p-7p, 7p-11p, 11p-7a, 7p-7a
- Weekend requirements: Every third weekend
- Self schedule
- Orientation: 2 days
Schedule Information
- Unit: 6 East
- Level of care: PCU and MedSurg
- Number of beds: 27
- Patient population: Adults
- RN Ratio (Days): 1 RN to 4 PCU, 1 to 5 M/S
- RN Ratio (Nights): 1 RN to 5-6 patients
- Nursing Assistant support: Yes
- Charge nurse: yes
- Additional unit support staff: PT/OT, RN case manager, social work, educator, dietician
- Float: yes, same level of care
- Specific patient types/diagnoses - Oncology PCU and Trauma PCU
- Types of RT equipment they have on this floor
- Specialty Equipment Available: Lyko lifts in even rooms. Other lift equipment available.
- EMR: EPIC
- IV Pumps: Alaris
Unit Specific Information
- Travelers may float to med/surg and PCU units
- Patient Experience challenges/focus: hourly rounding
- Qualities for hires: need to care for patients, teamwork, adapt to cultural diversity, different religious beliefs, and economic status
Additional Details