Job Summary
Progressive Care Unit nursing position on the night shift. This role provides care for surgical, medical, and occasional neurological patients requiring progressive and critical care monitoring. The position includes floating responsibilities and management of complex therapies, vascular access, airway support, cardiac care, and specialized equipment.
Job Details
- Schedule: Night shift, 12-hour shifts, with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
- Required Qualifications: Minimum of 2 years of critical care experience; required skills include intravenous insertion, peripherally inserted central catheter and central line management, vascular device access and care, dialysis fistula care and management, arterial line management, continuous positive airway pressure and bilevel positive airway pressure management, tracheostomy care, epidural and patient-controlled analgesia pump management, feeding tube management, and wound vacuum management. Experience managing vasoactive drips, including neosynephrine, amiodarone, and Cardizem, is required.
- Preferred Qualifications: Experience in both intensive care and Progressive Care Unit settings; ability to obtain 12-lead electrocardiograms, perform sheath removal, assist with cardioversion and defibrillation, and manage central venous pressure monitoring.
- Float: Float rotation may be required.
- Additional Information:
- Provides care for surgical, medical, and occasional neurological patients.
- Common equipment includes bladder scanners, intravenous pumps, patient-controlled analgesia pumps, sequential compression devices, bilevel positive airway pressure devices, continuous positive airway pressure devices, high-flow oxygen systems, and heated high-flow oxygen therapy devices.
- Patient assignments may be approximately 1:3, though staffing ratios are not guaranteed.
- The healthcare provider may adjust traveler staffing based on patient census and operational needs during the assignment.
Benefits
The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:
- Private housing or generous housing allowance
- Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
- Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
- Competitive salaries
- Referral bonuses
- Travel reimbursement
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Direct deposit/free checking
- Unlimited free CE credits
