Job Description

Job Description

Techlink Systems Inc. is seeking a travel nurse RN PCU - Progressive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Winston Salem, North Carolina.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: PCU - Progressive Care Unit
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: ASAP
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours
• Employment Type: Travel

Job Title: Registered Nurse - PCU
\nLocation (On-site, Remote, or Hybrid?): Winston Salem, NC (Onsite)
\nContract Duration: 13 weeks 
\nWork Hours: Night 3x12-Hour (18:45 - 07:15)
\nTotal weekly hours: 36
\n \n\n \n\n \n\n### RTO after booking is NOT allowed and is NOT allowed to be worked out onsite. Any call offs or additional RTO on unit, could possibly turn into a Cancel and DNR ###
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\n***NO BLOCK SCHEDULING***
\n Runs more like an ICU. Strong drip experience is a must
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\nREQUIRED SKILLS / CERTS / EXP:
\nMinimum Years of Experience: 2 yrs of Experience Needed
\nTraveler Experience: Accepts 1st time travelers.
\nLocals Accepted / Rate Difference: Yes
\nREQUIRED Skills: must have experience with arterial lines and titrating vasoactive drips, PCU/DOU/IMC/Stepdown, Telemetry, Interpretation of dysrhythmias, Management of dysrhythmias, Telemetry - on the unit monitoring, Use of Rapid Response Teams, IV insulin protocols, Blood Product Administration, Central line care/management, Peripheral Line Care/Management, PICC line management, Heparin Protocols, CVA, Chest tubes-Emerson/Pleur-evac, External CPAP/BIPAP, High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC), Nasal Cannula, Non-invasive airway management, Tracheostomy Management, Isolation Precautions
\nREQUIRED: ACLS, BCLS, NIH certifications, as well as, experience with IV start, telemetry and conscious sedation.
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\nJOB DETAILS:
\nTarget Ratios: 3:1 or 4:1
\nUnit will accept contracts for 13 weeks
\n*36 or 48 Hours can be offered. If Accepting 48 Hours, No OT will be billed until After 48 Hours
\n12 HR NIGHTS; 18:45 - 07:15
\n***RTO: 7 days MAX for Aya Auto Offer***
\n***NO BLOCK SCHEDULING***
\nFloat Requirement: Floating required as needed to sister unit which is an ICCU also.
\nWeekend Requirement: Weekend Requirement: EVERY OTHER WEEKEND.
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\nPATIENT DIAGNOSES: ADC:18 with 20 Beds. ICU stepdown. Post rapid response team patients, respiratory distress, unstable hemodynamics, withdrawal, GI bleeds, post-op: GYN, GU, GI, thoracotomies, neuro, ortho surgeries. Pre/post OB with complications (Pitocin).
\nPatient age from adolescent, adult, geriatric.
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\nSPECIAL PROCEDURES/UNIT DETAILS: Only one pressor drip per patient, any more and they're transferred to ICU.
\nCardizem, Nitro, Precedex, Cardene, Levophed, Dopamine, Dobutamine, Neo drips given on unit.
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\nSPECIAL EQUIPMENT: Bedside telemetry monitors with remote backup. Nurses must be able to recognize and treat dysrhythmias. A-lines, BIPAP's, chest tubes, trach's, there are no vents on unit.
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\nUNIT SYSTEMS: Pyxis and Epic
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\nSCHEDULING TYPE: NM creates schedule; ***NO BLOCK SCHEDULING***
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\nSCRUBS: Navy, White or a combination of the two

Techlink Systems Inc. Job ID #TLS45575. Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined. Posted job title: Registered Nurse - PCU

About Techlink Systems Inc.

Techlink+ is a national provider of staffing services with offices all over the USA as well as development and support centers globally. 

Techlink+ was incorporated in 1998 by Jane Kim, and the company is proud to be a Certified Minority and Woman-owned Business Enterprise (MWOBE). Techlink+ provides contract staffing, contingency placement, temp-to-hire staffing, and an array of vendor-managed services to Fortune 500 companies and organization nationwide with office locations in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

Job Tags

Contract work, Temporary work, Immediate start, Shift work, Night shift, Weekend work,

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